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Anthony, You're a genius!! That worked! Thank you so much for your help - you just saved me hours upon hours of reprogramming...

Hi Anthony, Thanks so much for your response! I'll definitely try to reorder some of the commands to see if it makes a difference. Unfortunately there's no way for me to get around the PHP quotes issue, since I have to be able to generate the image from a user-submitted form. But that part is ...

Here's the actual code, without the PHP quotes, to avoid any confusion: exec("/usr/bin/convert -size 1275x1650 xc:white color_full1.png -geometry 1275x1650!+0+0 -composite -fill black -font Arial.ttf -pointsize 48 -gravity Northwest -draw \"text 45,830 HEADLINE GOES HERE\" -font AvantGarde-Demi ...

Thanks for the tip! Those quotes are actually removed when the command is run - they were left over from when I replaced the PHP variables with real text, and are needed for telling the script to interpret the PHP variable.

Hi everyone! I've got a system built that creates dynamic ads for users, and places their contact info, headline & text on the ad and saves it as a new image. It's worked flawlessly for several years now, but I just moved it to a new hosting server (previously on MediaTemple Grid), and it's not ...