Pete send me this great mail, but unfortunately, when you reply, it does not go on the list.
However, I have tried his suggestions, and since I sometimes search the archives, I thought that my thanks should go back on the list. Bottom line, the -append and the use of the text from a file (label:@file.txt) did the trick, and it now works So thanks Pete /Thomas On 1/11/07, Pete Whatever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Thomas, I've been trying your example (using ImageMagick 6.3.1 12/24/06 Q8) and I think I have it working the way you would want but it took some meddling! Here's the command I came up with: convert -font Verdana-Bold -pointsize 36 label:"FIRST LINE IN BOLD " -font Verdana -pointsize 36 label:@command_write_text_utf.txt -append write_text.gif The -append stacks the two images on top of each other. To get the bullets to work I had to convert your \u2022 into UTF-8 encoding which produces E280A2 (hex) which is the three character string тАв. Just putting this string into the command didn't work work, presumably because of code-page issues because DOS converted the characters to something else. I got around this by putting the string in the file command_write_text_utf.txt and then telling the label command to get the info from there. The content of this file is the one line: Second line тАв Normal with тАв small тАв bullets \nLast line: also with тАв bullets Note that in this string I have put a space character before the \n because otherwise the last character on the line is partly chopped off (which must be a bug in ImageMagick). I have also added a space on the end of the first text string for the same reason. You could, of course, split that into two lines in the file like this: Second line тАв Normal with тАв small тАв bullets Last line: also with тАв bullets but in this case note the extra space at the end of the first line. For a description of how to convert \u sequences to the three-character sequences see the article at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 (you need the conversion table entry for codes 000800Ц00FFFF) Pete ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com
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