I got the following error trying to draw text on an image. The test.png is a valid file, I can view it in browser. Here is the debug dump (I use CMUCL 19b, latest libgd and cl-gd, with-image macro works fine): Error in function CREATE-IMAGE-FROM-FILE: Could not create image from PNG file "/tmp/dir1/test.png" [Condition of type SIMPLE-ERROR] Restarts: 0: [ABORT] Return to SLIME's top level. 1: [ABORT] Return to Top-Level. Backtrace: 0: (CREATE-IMAGE-FROM-FILE "/tmp/dir1/test.png" NIL) 1: (CREATE-TEXT-IMAGE-ON-IMAGE #P"/tmp/dir1/test.png" "Hello!" "arial" 100 ...) 2: ("DEFSLIMEFUN INTERACTIVE-EVAL") Thank you, Andrew