note 24902 added to function.imagettftext

as said earlier in these comments, you must patch your GD to obtain nice truecolor images patch available there : http://www.coupin.net/gd-freetype/ then just use the php.net example (replace imagecreate with imagecreattruecolor and generate a png or jpeg instead of a gif) -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.imagettftext.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+24902 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+24902 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+24902