Fellow monks,

I am trying to create an image which is basically a semitransparent background and some text in the middle. From what I could see here, Image::Magick is highly recommended. Since I have never used it before, I started with a simple program to add text to a blank picture, but ran into a problem: 

use strict;
use Image::Magick;

my ($image, $x);
 
$image = Image::Magick->new;
$x = $image->Set(size=>'100x100');  warn "$x" if $x;
$x = $image->ReadImage('xc:white'); warn "$x" if $x;

my $text = 'Works like magick!';
$x = $image->Annotate(text=>$text); warn "$x" if $x;
$x = $image->Write('x.png');        warn "$x" if $x;
undef $image;

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which produces a white image with no text on it and 'Exception 415: UnableToReadFont (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/ttf/arial.ttf) at try.pl line 11' in the terminal. How does Image::Magick know to look at a specific place for fonts? I know I have Arial font installed (somewhere - how do I find it?).

Thanks for your help.

In reply to Image::Magick Annotate problem by gri6507

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