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Hi,

I am trying to set the font for GD::Graph using the following code. But default font is not changing! Environment: Windows XP SP3, Perl v5.10

$my_graph->set_title_font('C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/arial.ttf', 14)

I have also tried using font_path method, but could not succeed.

use GD::Text;
GD::Text->font_path('c:/windows/fonts/')

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Could you please help me resolve this issue ? Thanks in advance

Best

Ram

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Re: true type font in GD::Graph
by hawtin (Prior) on Sep 03, 2009 at 15:55 UTC

    Its been a while since I last looked at fonts in GD. I have an old piece of code that says: 

    #        $image->stringFT($line,'/dosc/windows/Fonts/arialnb.ttf',
#                 12,0,
#                 $border+int($x),
#                 int($y),
#                     $name);
        $image->string(gdMediumBoldFont,
               int($x)-$x_offset,
               int($y),
               $name,$line);

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    My recollection is that the commented out stringFT() method worked OK but there was some other issue with it (finding fonts on other machines for example). So in the end I had to resort to the gd*Font set.

    Hope that helps.

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