First, you'll need some true type library like Freetype or T1lib properly installed and Imager compiled to use it. You can check what libraries you've got using this snippet (from Image::Font's POD)

use Imager;
print "Has truetype"      if $Imager::formats{tt};
print "Has t1 postscript" if $Imager::formats{t1};
print "Has Win32 fonts"   if $Imager::formats{w32};
print "Has Freetype2"     if $Imager::formats{ft2};
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And than, do something like

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Imager;
use Imager::Font;
use Imager::Color;

my $font_file='path/to/font.ttf';

my $text="Foo Bar!";

# create image
my $img=Imager->new(xsize=>200,ysize=>50);

# set colors
my $white=Imager::Color->new("#ffffff");
my $black=Imager::Color->new("#000000");

# change background to white
$img->box(color=>$white,filled=>1);

# create font object
my $ttfont=Imager::Font->new
            (
              type=>'ft2',
              file=>$font_file,
              color=>$black,
              size=>16,
             );

# draw text
$img->string(font=>$ttfont,text=>$text,
             x=>5,y=>22,aa=>1);

# write file
$img->write(file=>"image.png") or die 
      "Cannot write $imgfn: ", $img->errstr;
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Hope this helps!

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