Just flagging this issue that I've resolved by hacking, ie. feel free to close it.

Using a grey image with transparency. Seems that the font color was not allocation proper (imagecolorallocate). I got around this by
1) use imagecolorresolvealpha (and I think imagecolorresolve might work too).
2) I had to add the color I wanted to write in to the image. IE. I had to place a small dark dot where the text would be written over so that imagecolorresolve could resolve my foreground to this color, rather than one of a pasty grays in the image.

Anyway, no matter, I finally resolved it myself.

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agileware commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Yes, this sounds like a problem I've had. However, my work around was to increase the colour pallette for the GIF, remove the replace background colour option and then the transparency & text worked a charm.