Truetype/Freetype rendering

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Hi,

I've been writing text onto images using imagettftext, having first loaded
an Arial TTF. The result can be seen at http://linuxbox.co.uk/57_off.png

After moving the code to another server, the text started coming out
differently: http://linuxbox.co.uk/65_off.png

Examing phpinfo() for each server, it seems the original server had:

FreeType Linkage with TTF library

,while the on the second server:

FreeType Linkage with freetype

I've tried using imagefttext rather than imagettftext, but the text is no
better.

I'm not in a position to recompile PHP on the second machine. Is there
anything else I can do to improve the text quality? It looks as if the
text in the second URL is still being rendered in Arial, only more poorly.

Thanks,
Pete