Hi, Not sure it is really a "perl question", but after 4 hours tests I am getting mad :(

I want to print text on a picture. I tried with png and jpg format, the result is the same: The text is not displayed in the color that I want, but in a color that matches the color of the picture at the left of the text. Crazy? Yes!

It means for example: I work on a picture that has a black background and a yellow square on the left side. I print the text in "red" and the text is... yellow. Same for any colors.

The code:

use GD;
$testline="qwerty";
$jpg="test.jpg";
$im = GD::Image->new( $jpg );
$mycolor = $im->colorAllocate(255,0,0);
$im->string(gdSmallFont,135,6,$testline,$mycolor);
$pic_dyn="test2.jpg"; open IMG,">$pic_dyn"; binmode IMG; print IMG $im->jpeg; close IMG;


This is in jpg, if I make the test source picture in png, and save the result in png (or even in jpg), same problem: The text "qwerty" is in yellow where I have a yellow square on the left, in green where I have a green square, etc.

Any suggestion?

Thank you!

In reply to Perl GD problem with colors for text by natol44

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