Hi everybody, I have strange problems with imagemagick command line tools. Simple and even more complex image modifications work fine, the problems start when I try to use text conversion like in the following example:
convert -background white -pointsize 16 -fill white -page 320x95+10+10 text:/var/www/mydomain.com/input.txt /var/www/mydomain.com/output_test.gif Executing this command leads to the mentioned error message: convert: unable to get type metrics `/var/www/mydomain.com/input.txt'. convert: missing an image filename `/var/www/mydomain.com/output_test.gif'. Now, what I already know or at least assume is that it could result of the restricted user environment, the convert is called from. This is a webhosting environment, the users have only access to their domain directory and furthermore only to selected resources (e.g. /etc/fonts). If I run the mentioned command as root, it runs fine and the resulting image is created as expected. This is why I assume I miss to make some resource available to the webuser which imagemagick needs for this type of convert operation. Unfortunately the error message does not give a good hint in what direction I should search. Can someone give me a hint what that could be? If I google for the error message, I only find a debian bug report about it (we run debian on our rootservers, but with one of the newest imagemagick versions and running as root everything runs as expected) and other not very useful content. I searched also in this forum but found only one topic where the message is mentioned but IIRC in a completely other context. So I'm a little bit stuck here ;) imagemagick version: 7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2+b2 P.S: If I run convert with simple image conversion commands from the restricted user environment, everything works quite well. This includes commands like e.g. convert -resize and convert -crop and identify operations to determine colorspace and/or resolution. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/unable-to-get-type-metrics-tp19184645p19184645.html Sent from the Magick-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
