Anthony Thyssen wrote:
While I haven't even tried this code I do need to ask one thing...
Where is the annotation being positioned?
If it all defaults to absolut defaults, +0+0 then the string is
probably just off the top edge image and will not be visible unless some
of the characters has decenders! EG? tailed lowercase letters: pqjyg
Actually, for some dumb reason it suddenly started working. I had
walked away after sending that message, had some dinner, came back and
ran the same script and lo and behold, there's the text. Mystery to me.
However, it seems the previous "bug" I hit upon a while back is
still present. If a font does not exist, IM will default to running
ghostscript, or at least tries to, and you end up with 'gs: command not
found' because the system doesn't have gs on it. It never did. I
reported this on the 20th last month. At the time I was running 6.2.9-5
- now I have 6.3.0 and it's still doing it. I don't know if this is
even addressable or not. On
http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graphics/imagick5/ it says,
"WARNING: If the font requested is not found, Imagemagic will
silently substitute a default font, which is very plain in looks....."
However, where is this default font coming from? What if the system
has no fonts at all on it (TTF or otherwise)? The Generic.ttf font that
resides in the demo folder of IM's tar file doesn't get installed
anywhere on the system (as far as I can tell) so I'm somewhat curious as
to where this 'default font' comes from, and why IM continues to try and
run ghostscript when it fails to find a font.
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W | It's not a bug - it's an undocumented feature.
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