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What was really weird was I got an error for an app that was not 'installed' in the Applications folder

If you have OS X 10.4 or 10.5 this could be caused by regular maintenance never running as intended - see my page at:

http://links.zero.eu.org/os-x/period/

As far as I can tell IM assumes that type.xml files exist on all OSs. Where can make a formal bug report about this imprudent assumption? Your script only finds a small portion of the 45 ttf fonts at /Library/Fonts: /Developer - 1 /Library/Fonts - 9 /System/Library/Fonts - 5 /System/Library ...

Thanks for your helpful input Anthony and thanks also for your excellent scripts. As well as the embedded link, which is helpful for those trying to get fonts working, I should have also included a link to your scripts index page at: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/scripts/ I am a little surprised ...

Here is an improved fix for IM's inability to find fonts when ~/.magick/type.xml does not exist and IM's file at eg /usr/local/etc/ImageMagick/type.xml has no data between its <typemap> and </typemap> tags. This has been written for OS X but it can probably be applied to other platforms. 1 - Save ...

I have now resolved this and although Fred's assistance here did not get me very far this earlier thread he contributed to was very helpful: http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=18133 For the sake of others, particularly Mac users with limited Terminal experience, who end ...

Prior to my original post I Googled and indications were that my error was caused by a bug introduced at an earlier update. Are you sure that this identified bug is not the cause of my problem? The reason I ask is that reinstalling takes several hours on my Mac whereas I could patch a change of ...

Assistance with the following would be appreciated. $ montage '*.gif' -geometry 187x187+3+2 new.png montage: unable to read font `(null)' @ error/annotate.c/RenderFreetype/1120. I am new to ImageMagick and have limited command line experience. After several hours playing I failed to get MacPorts ...