I just installed it today and am having problems getting something to work. Can someone tell me why the Annotate isn't writing "Hi there" on top of the image like I expect it to?

My other question is, is it possible to automatically open the image in imDisplay? How would you do this? I tried  imDisplay "test.png" but it errors out with countless problems. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

use Image::Magick;

my ($image, $x);

$image=Image::Magick->new;
$x = $image->Read('newbanner.jpg');
warn "$x" if "$x";

my $text = "Hi there";

$image->Annotate(font=>'kai.ttf', pointsize=>40, fill=>'green', text=>
+$text);


$x = $image->Write('test.png');

warn "$x" if "$x";

print "The file $x has been created";

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