Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Thanks, fmw42. -annotate gives the same results as -draw, except that it takes longer to produce the result. I haven't tested Pango yet, but I suspect it'll be the same. My choice of font is the main issue. Arial is far more legible than Courier New. Well, thanks for the help! I may use Arial, or I ...

By the way, you example code show and input image, webcam_640x360.jpg, but I see no sign of that in your white text on the thin black bar. I cropped it. It didn't make sense to upload a 150KB image when cropped it's only 10KB. Some people still have slow internet, and the text was the only relevant ...

try other fonts. some fonts do not contain the font size you want or need and have to be rendered from other sizes. also you reference the PANGO page and are not using pango. see http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/ for various methods of rendering text. Thanks. :) ImageMagick has so much ...

Getting rid of the -stroke option helped a little bit. Adding +antialias got rid of the blurring, but the text is still illegible at small point sizes. Pointsize 9 is actually a bit better than 10 for CourierNew, but it's hardly readable compared to how it appears in Windows or on this website ...

Hi, ImageMagick is rendering my tiny fonts really fat and ugly. I want to stamp a website location onto a Webcam image, but it's not readable. Ideally it'd look like the thin fonts in this image: http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=19711 https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9500683 ...