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I have a function that I built some of and borrowed from something Ray Camden posted on his blog. It will basically take two lines of text, in my case a month and day and center it on an image.

CODE

            date_img = imageNew(img);
            //Create text variables
            img_month = UCase(dateFormat(date,"mmm"));
            img_day = dateFormat(date,"dd");
            //Add day to image
                text = img_day;
                //Create Text Layout
                buffered = ImageGetBufferedImage(date_img);
                context = buffered.getGraphics().getFontRenderContext();
                Font = createObject("java", "java.awt.Font");
                    // font name, style and size
                textFont = Font.init( "Arial", Font.BOLD, javacast("int", 13));
                textLayout = createObject("java","java.awt.font.TextLayout").init(text,textfont,context);
                //Set Text Dimensions
                textBounds = textLayout.getBounds();
                dimen.width = textBounds.getWidth();
                dimen.height = textBounds.getHeight();
                //Create Image
                attr = {font="Arial", size="13", style="bold"};
                newx = (date_img.width/2.2 - dimen.width/2.2);
                newy = (date_img.height/1.6 + dimen.height/1.6);
                imageSetDrawingColor(date_img,"white");
                imageDrawText(date_img,text,newx,newy,attr);
            //Add Month
                text = img_month;
                //Create Text Layout
                buffered = ImageGetBufferedImage(date_img);
                context = buffered.getGraphics().getFontRenderContext();
                Font = createObject("java", "java.awt.Font");
                    // font name, style and size
                textFont = Font.init( "Arial", Font.PLAIN, javacast("int", 11));
                textLayout = createObject("java","java.awt.font.TextLayout").init(text,textfont,context);
                //Set Text Dimensions
                textBounds = textLayout.getBounds();
                dimen.width = textBounds.getWidth();
                dimen.height = textBounds.getHeight();
                //Create Image
                attr = {font="Arial", size="11"};
                newx = (date_img.width/2 - dimen.width/2);
                newy = (date_img.height/2.3 + dimen.height/2.3);
                imageSetDrawingColor(date_img,"white");
                imageDrawText(date_img,text,newx,newy,attr);

The only problem that I am having is that the Arial Black text is to jagged of text. I need to sharpen it up a little bit to look more presentable. Is there another function that I could use?