On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:50:50 -0500 Ted Onley <[email protected]> wrote: | I've been trying to figure out how Image Magick and PerlMagick determine what | fonts are available for annotating. I've found the .xml files in the config | directory, and I've played around with it, and now I've successfully confused | myself.... | | When I execute 'convert -list font', I get a list of fonts, which I assume are | fonts Image Magick knows about. This list doesn't contain all of the fonts in | the .xml files in the config directory however. | Not from just the one xml file.
The xml file can 'include' other xml files, but it can also have other xml files IM found along a internal search PATH (directory list). See IM Resources, Configuration Files http://www.imagemagick.org/script/resources.php Also the -font setting can not only be a short name for the font, but can itself be a file name of the font file to directly use. You may also like to look at and use the "imagick_type_gen" script http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/scripts/imagick_type_gen which can generate a new font XML file either over the whole machine or just the fonts in a given sub-directory | Helvetica is not listed from the convert -list font command either. | Helvetica is a postscript font, that is defined by the GhostScript package. It is defined in an 'included' type xml file. Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <[email protected]> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have a Dragon here, and I am not afraid to use it! -- Donkey, "Shrek" movie ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony's Home is his Castle http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/ _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
