Okay, here's my question:

I'm trying to create an image-based counter (so I don't have to mess with SSI) on a WinNT-based web server. After some bad luck with using Image::Magick to append digit images together (ending up with rendering problems trying to send the image result to STDOUT... but that's an entirely different story).

I then turned to GD.pm to see if that would help -- what really caught my eye was stringTTF().

However, everytime I make a call to this function with a string, I get a string of "null" characters (i.e. those blank box things) drawn onto the image. I've noticed other examples that do the exact same steps I do and come out with favorable results.

Now I know that stringTTF is actually opening the font file without problems, but I'm wondering if there's anything special that I have to do to escape the string in any fashion before feeding it to stringTTF.

The catch is: I'm using ActiveState's GD bundle through their PPM. (And I'm beginning to think that that just may be the problem too, but...) So if anyone's got any suggestions, I'll be glad to try 'em. =)

In reply to GD::Image-stringTTF() problems.... by Anonymous Monk

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