I'm thinking it's NOT GD. Here's why:

I was able to generate a sample graph using GD and php with the following code:

header("Content-type: image/png");
$arrval = array(12,123,21,32,77,85,166,176,163,121);
$height = 260;
$width = 330;
$im = imagecreate($width,$height);
$white = imagecolorallocate($im,255,255,255);
$gray = imagecolorallocate($im,200,200,200);
$black = imagecolorallocate($im,0,0,0);
$red = imagecolorallocate($im,255,0,0);
$x = 21;
$y = 11;
$num = 0;
while($x<=$width && $y<=$height){
$prcnt = ((($height-50)-($y-1))/($height-60))*100;
imageline($im, 21, $y, $width-10, $y, $gray);
imageline($im, $x, 11, $x, $height-50, $gray);
imagestring($im,2,1,$y-10,$prcnt.'%',$red);
imagestring($im,2,$x-3,$height-40,$num,$red);
$x += 30;
$y += 20;
$num++;
}
$tx = 20;
$ty = 210;
foreach($arrval as $values){
$cx = $tx + 30;
$cy = 200-$values;
imageline($im,$tx,$ty,$cx,$cy,$red);
imagestring($im,5,$cx-3,$cy-13,'.',$red);
$ty = $cy;
$tx = $cx;
}
imageline($im, 20, 11, 20, $height-50, $black);
imageline($im, 20, $height-49, $width-10, $height-49, $black);
imagestring($im,3,10,$height-20,'Line Graph by: Roseindia Technologies
+',$red);
imagepng($im);
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So that tells me GD is installed properly and working.

I'm still getting the same "font not found" error, so it's down to a perl problem.

You're the perl monks, right? Any wisdom?

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use GD;
use GD::Text;
use GD::Graph::lines;

my $graph = GD::Graph::lines->new();
$graph->set_x_label_font('/fonts/arial.ttf', 12);
$graph->set_y_label_font('/fonts/arial.ttf', 12);
$graph->set_x_axis_font( '/fonts/arial.ttf', 12);
$graph->set_y_axis_font( '/fonts/arial.ttf', 12);
$graph->set_values_font( '/fonts/arial.ttf', 12);
$graph->set_title_font ( '/fonts/arial.ttf', 12);
$graph->set_legend_font( '/fonts/arial.ttf', 12);

my  @data = ( 
    ["1st","2nd","3rd","4th","5th","6th","7th", "8th", "9th"],
    [    1,    2,    5,    6,    3,  1.5,    1,     3,     4],
    [ sort { $a <=> $b } (1, 2, 5, 6, 3, 1.5, 1, 3, 4) ]
  );

$graph->set( 
    x_label       => 'X Label',
    y_label       => 'Y label',
    title         => 'Some simple graph',
    y_max_value   => 8,
    y_min_value   => -6,
    y_tick_number => 14,
    y_label_skip  => 2,
    box_axis      => 0,
    line_width    => 3,
    transparent   => 0,   
) or die $graph->error;

my $gd = $graph->plot(\@data) or die $graph->error;
open(IMG, '>file.png') or die $!;
binmode IMG;
print IMG $gd->png;
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If the "missing details" were the "use strict" and "warn" directives, I excluded them as irrelevant to the code sample. If there was some other element, could you be more specific?

I reinstalled gd2 via MacPorts and reinstalled GD.pm. I'm still getting the same errors.

MacPorts has supposedly resolved an issue with failure to find the fonts directory, but this seems to be a problem with GD::Graph::Lines itself (or rather, GD::Text since the error actually references that module):

Text.pm:94: Can't locate auto/GD/gdSmallFont.al in @INC 
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This appears to be an automatic requirement for a font that's not even used!

Hi, see Font question regarding GD.pm

Your PhP script had no use of True Type Fonts, so just because it ran, dosn't mean your GD libs are up to doing TrueType.

Your problem is just setting up your True Type fonts correctly.

It is a well known problem that GD requires full path names to the ttf file. Just specifying 'arial' won't do. Also read "perldoc GD" and look for the section "Character and String Drawing", wherein it says

  $font = GD::Font->load($fontfilepath)
           This method dynamically loads a font file, returning a font
+ that you can use in subsequent calls to drawing methods.  For
           example:

              my $courier = GD::Font->load('./courierR12.fnt') or die 
+"Can't load font";
              $image->string($courier,2,10,"Peachy Keen",$peach);
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Even in the docs, the ./courierR12.fnt file is in the scripts working directory. Try copying your arial font file to the CWD of the script. There is also mention of using stringFT for TrueType fonts, google for examples if you need them.

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