Thanks for the reply.

OK, lets say I create the following text using GD::Text, how then do I use it with a GD::Image object? In other words, what method do I call to position $gd_text on a png image?


my $gd_text = GD::Text->new(
               text => 'Some text',
               font => 'times.ttf',
               ptsize => 14,
           );
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Take a peek at this thread:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl.misc/browse_thread/thread/e0e3efc840f45279/0ec9568510bfb279?q=gd::text+gd::image&rnum=2&hl=en#0ec9568510bfb279
The section titled "GD + GD::Text example" may give you a starting point. If this doesn't help, let me know. This is a useful thing to know and I'll try to get it working...

Found the method $im->stringFT($black,$font,30.0,-0.5,130,130,"Goodbye cruel world!");
and it works fine.

Try this (having adjusted the path to suit):

#! perl -slw
use strict;
use GD;

my $img =  GD::Image->new( 1000, 120, 1 );
my $index = $img->colorAllocate( 255, 0, 0 );
my @bounds = $img->stringFT(
    $index, "c:\\windows\\fonts\\Coprgtb.ttf", 72, 0, 100, 100,
    "Hello world" );

open IMG, '>', "junk.png";
binmode IMG;
print IMG $img->png;
close IMG;
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