How to print nice looking text on an image?

Hello, I am producing a script that writes text onto a JPEG image to create custom printable gift certificates for an online store. The basics of the scripts are straight forward. However I found that the imagestring() function produces absolutely horrible looking pixelized text and on these gift certificates looks are important. I attempted to employ the imagepstext() family of functions but they do not appear to be installed on this account (it's a shared server), I'm getting "call to undefined function" errors. So my question is; Is there any other way to produce good looking anti-aliased text on an image? I'd appreciate any information, classes and links to guides you can point me to. Thanks! Kevin Stone Kevin@asiostudio.com