Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Resolved: an upgrade to 6.6.7-5 did fix this issue. Not sure what the specific change is, but my PNGs now open in mspaint.

convert -list format | grep NG
3FR DNG r-- Hasselblad CFV/H3D39II
ARW DNG r-- Sony Alpha Raw Image Format
CR2 DNG r-- Canon Digital Camera Raw Image Format
CRW DNG r-- Canon Digital Camera Raw Image Format
DCR DNG r-- Kodak Digital Camera Raw Image File
DNG DNG r-- Digital Negative
ERF DNG ...

Thanks for these further practical suggestions. I now have:
convert -size 600x80 -fill "rgb(81, 98, 111)" -font /path/to/Verdana.ttf -pointsize 10 -gravity West caption:'Test message. Test message. Test message. Test message. Test message. Test message. Test message. Test message. Test message ...

with an image that is x by y pixels I get an image that is y by x pixels, great, I've transformed landscape to portrait! But on viewing both images on my PC screen, the aspect ratio of the rotated image appears to have changed. :?
Unless I have totally misunderstood OP, the image aspect ratio has ...

Thanks fmw42 .

Oops, I meant to write xc: in my example (instead of canvas:). You are quite right that the version I am on does not support canvas: and I have been using xc: to generate the image.

I am creating the image on a Solaris box, not Windows. I don't have an X interface to the Solaris box ...

Without any specialist knowledge on the topic, I can only say what I see.

My two main screens both have a native resolution of 1680x1050 (1.6:1). Measuring them (by eye with a ruler, so this isn't exactly particle physics kind of accuracy) I get the following dimensions (to the nearest 0.5 mm or so ...

I'm posting this in Users as I'm highly confident that this isn't a bug/lack of format support, but just something I haven't yet understood.

Aims & Objectives
I am trying to use IM on Solaris to create a fairly simple PNG file with the following requirements: 600x80; transparent background; a ...