Hi again, this post I published on the Nabble forum. It took very long until I received the confirmation, that it was published on this mailinglist but at least I received it. I was just wondering that no answer at all was posted to my questions. That might be ok if nobody knows a hint for the issues but to make sure that this is the case and it was not due to the fact that it somehow was not published correctly, I just quote the message below.
So could at least give somebody just a sort of "lifesign" that this message is published correctly? Thanks in advance. Regards, Timo Kirst -- > 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. _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
