stringFT not working??

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Posted on 2008-10-19 02:15:34-07 by pygin

I had an old script with an stringFT function in it and it used to work fine. I have recently installed Active Perl 5.10 (build 1004) for Windows, tried the script again, and now I can't print text into my image. Everything else works (I can draw lines and points), but stringFT will not work. This is what I am trying:

$black = $im->colorAllocate(0,0,0); @bounds = $im->stringFT($black,'C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\COURBD.TTF',18,0,280,170, "adadfasfd");

I can't understand why this no longer works. Does anyone have any ideas?

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Posted on 2008-10-19 19:05:52-07 by pygin in response to 9092

Re: stringFT not working??

I got this working now.

I printed $@ to display the error returned from stringFT(). It said this:

libgd was not built with FreeType font support

What I ended up doing was using ActivePerl 5.8.0.806 (ActivePerl-5.8.0.806-MSWin32-x86.msi). I downloaded it from oldapps.com. It did not have GD installed, so from the Windows command prompt I ran:
ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/GD.ppd
this installed GD Version 2.35

There are probably other websites to find GD.ppd, but I found instructions from here:
http://www.hamweather.com/kb/index.php?article=22

Now it works. I am not sure if this will work with the current latest version, 5.10, because 5.10 comes with GD. I don't know if you can simply replace the old one with a new one.

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