Re^4: How to use Imager for text

Perfect zentara, thanks for correcting it. BTW, got it to work with .ttf fonts, but not the .dfont

my $font = Imager::Font->new(
   file  => 'Copperplate.dfont',
   type  => 'ft2',
   index => 1,
   color => $blue,
   size  => 30,
   aa    => 1);
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did not work. Oh, well.

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Re^5: How to use Imager for text by tonyc (Hermit) on Oct 30, 2005 at 23:44 UTC
Are you seeing any errors creating the font, or in drawing the text? Which version of Imager are you using? If you're using 0.45 you don't need to set the type parameter. The following worked fine for me on both OS X and Debian stable (x86): `#!perl -w use strict; use Imager; my $font_file = 'Copperplate.dfont'; my $img = Imager->new(xsize=>400, ysize=>300); $img->box(filled=>1, color=>'white'); my $font = Imager::Font->new(file=>$font_file, index=>1, size=>40, color=>'444444') or die "Cannot load $font_file(1): ", Imager->errstr, "\n"; $img->string(font=>$font, text=>"This is a test string", x=>20, y=>50); $img->write(file=>'test.png') or die Imager->errstr;` [download] Which version of freetype are you using?	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^5: How to use Imager for text
by tonyc (Hermit) on Oct 30, 2005 at 23:44 UTC

Are you seeing any errors creating the font, or in drawing the text?

Which version of Imager are you using? If you're using 0.45 you don't need to set the type parameter.

The following worked fine for me on both OS X and Debian stable (x86):

#!perl -w
use strict;
use Imager;

my $font_file = 'Copperplate.dfont';

my $img = Imager->new(xsize=>400, ysize=>300);
$img->box(filled=>1, color=>'white');

my $font = Imager::Font->new(file=>$font_file, 
                 index=>1, 
                 size=>40, 
                 color=>'444444')
  or die "Cannot load $font_file(1): ", Imager->errstr, "\n";

$img->string(font=>$font,
         text=>"This is a test string",
         x=>20,
         y=>50);

$img->write(file=>'test.png')
  or die Imager->errstr;
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Which version of freetype are you using?

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