Hi all. What's wrong with this program? It's basically a rehash of a linux gazette article on GD:

http://linuxgazette.net/issue81/padala.html

Drawing text fonts work but not True Type fonts.

The frame draws. I've tried other TTF fonts and still no dice. Ideas? I'm running ActivePerl 5.10.1 on windows.

use GD;

# Create a new image
$im = new GD::Image(200, 200);

$white = $im->colorAllocate(255,255,255);
$gray = $im->colorAllocate(0,0,0);


# Make the background transparent and interlaced
$im->transparent($white);
$im->interlaced('true');

$x1 = 20;
$y1 = 20;

# Draw text in a TTF font
$im->rectangle(0,0,199,199,$gray);
$font = "c:/Documents and Settings/uriel.avalos/My Documents/Scratchpa
+d/nevis.ttf";
$im->stringFT($gray, $font, 12, 0, $x1, $y1, "A TTF font");


# Open a file for writing 
open(PICTURE, ">picture.png") or die("Cannot open file for writing");

# Make sure we are writing to a binary stream
binmode PICTURE;

# Convert the image to PNG and print it to the file PICTURE
print PICTURE $im->png;
close PICTURE;

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In reply to StringFT (truetype) not working in Windows? by ikaruga

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