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Hey bradcathey

I'm not sure if Imager can use macfonts? Have you tried postscript fonts? I used ttf fonts in the past without any problems though.

On Imager::Font I found something to check if Imager is t1 or truetype capable: 

use Imager;
  print "Has truetype"      if $Imager::formats{tt};
  print "Has t1 postscript" if $Imager::formats{t1};
  print "Has Win32 fonts"   if $Imager::formats{w32};
  print "Has Freetype2"     if $Imager::formats{ft2};

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I also found some link that's about Imager and .dfonts. It claims you need to add: 

my $font = Imager::Font->new(file=>$font, type=>ft2) or die Imager->er
+rstr;

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Check the link below for the whole discussion:
http://use.perl.org/comments.pl?sid=24188&cid=37046

Good luck ;)


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Re^2: How to use Imager for text
by bradcathey (Prior) on Oct 28, 2005 at 18:13 UTC

    Thanks teabag, but designating the type as 'ft2' didn't work. I managed to get an arial.ttf file uploaded to my cgi-bin, but still no dice. I'm surprised I getting a blank screen without any error messages, even if I substitute 'arial' for some font I know is not there. BTW, I'm getting a positive read with:

     print "Has truetype" if $Imager::formats{tt};

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    Here's what I have now, for what it's worth:

    my $font = Imager::Font->new(    
   file  => "arial",
   type  => "tt",
   index => 1,
   color => "444444",
   size  => 30,
   aa    => 1);
   
$img->string(    
   font => $font,
   text => "This is a test string",
   x    => 20,
   y    => 10);

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