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But I thought those commands just rendered two copies of the text with transparent background, offset them and merged them together. The following set of commands do work. Are they significantly different from the one in the first post? character='V' convert -background transparent -pointsize 16 ...

Hello, A while ago I learned a way to generate outlined text here by shifting a colored copy of the text multiple times with -page. It works when I use a TrueType font convert \( -background transparent -fill '#ff0000' -font 'OpenSans-Regular.ttf' -pointsize 16 label:'V' \) \ \( -background ...

Imagemagick allows you to stroke fonts!!! However for many different methods look at IM Examples, Compound Fonts... http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fonts/#stroke Yeah, I tried the -stroke option, but the result was ugly for Chinese/Japanese text. That page also says the method of shifted copies is ...

Using three commands like this works for the outline font: character='C' convert -background transparent \ -fill '#550b0b' label:"$character" outline.png convert -background transparent \ -fill '#e9f9f9' label:"$character" body.png convert -background transparent \ -page -1-1 outline.png \ -page -1 ...

I'm generating "font textures" for a game, which are images containing rendered characters and a text files describing the rectangles of each character in the image. The game requires a plain font, and a shadowed and outlined font. To be able to get the size of each character, I'm generating an ...