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As I said in the post, I'm in Windows using ActivePerl with GD precompiled. I have no idea if it was compiled with TrueType (and I can't seem to find any webpages mentioning if it is---that's why I'm here). Also, shouldn't it give some kind of error message if truetype support wasn't compiled in? How can I tell if it's not?
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Re^3: StringFT (truetype) not working in Windows?
by ikaruga (Novice) on Feb 01, 2010 at 17:50 UTC
    It seems that it wasn't. The following code fails (as in it doesn't print the success string). Anyone know where I can get a precompiled GD library with TrueType support? I really don't know the first thing about compiling on Windows... (Linux I can handle) 
    use GD::Text;

my($gd_text) = GD::Text-> new() or die GD::Text::error();

if ($gd_text-> can_do_ttf()) {

    print "Well, GD::Text says I can handle TTFs!  Isn't that a hoot!\
+n";
}

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