Anthony Thyssen wrote:
Dado Feigenblatt on wrote...
| short story:
| montage -label %f input.png output.png
| works on old system but not on newer one. I get no label.
|
| long story:
| I have some very old scripts running on Red Hat 7.2 (yes, RH7.2) using
| montage version 5.4.7.
| That is still working great for my needs, but I need to upgrade the
| system to FC4 or later.
| While testing on an existing FC4 box with ImageMagick 6.2.2, I can't get
| -label to work.
| I've tried playing with colors and fonts to no avail.
| I used fonts listed by "xlsfonts" and then fonts listed by "convert
| -list type"
|
| I tried the examples on http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/
|
| |convert -background lightblue -fill blue -font Candice -pointsize 72 label:Anthony label.gif
| |
|
| That complained about missing image label.gif
| I've created label.gif and it still complained.
| I've added an extra argument as the output image and all the command did
| (apparently) was to copy input to output.
|
| Any idea what could be wrong?
|
You probably have no fonts!
Try convert -list type
to see the current font list.
Also see the top level page of IM examples which has some font finding
information (and script).
Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Hi Anthony, thanks for the reply.
Yes, I had no fonts. But all the ImageMagick messages were very misleading.
As I said, I had already used 'convert -list type' and it listed a bunch
of fonts.
I had also tried the examples on the site and all I've got were error
messages about missing images.
When I fixed the font problem, those errors disappeared.
And the problem was that I have a true type config file, but the
directory it points to is empty.
How it ended up this way I don't know, I didn't build this machine.
So 'convert -list type' doesn't really check for fonts.
It just parses the content of the config file and makes you believe your
fonts are alright.
All very misleading.
Someone should have a look at that and the misleading "missing image"
errors someday.
Thanks
Dado Feigenblatt.
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