Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

The upgrade to 6.8.05 did the trick. I can now use this to produce a transparent overlay image with text in dark blue, text fed from a file: convert -background black -transparent black -pointsize 34 -fill "dark blue" -size 800x340 -gravity center caption:@"${title}" label3.png and get the input ...

Guess I need to find the 6.8 version. None of the suggestions worked with caption -gravity center! Removing the pointsize item, gave me the first line, on one line, in 8point or so, AND left justified. Replacing pointsize and removing either the 800 or the 340 or BOTH of the size items gave me left ...

Thanks for that. The 6.7 version is the native Fedora install version. I shall grab and install the newer 6.8. With luck that might fix things. I am creating an actual title page, so the width is fixed. That also means that I REALLY want a visible pointsize. It does me no good to have the program ...

I think I must have the magick incantation wrong. Using Fedora 17 and convert Version: ImageMagick 6.7.5-6 2012-08-11 Q16. I want to use caption -gravity center to center a long text in an image with word wrap. What I *ALWAYS* get is efectively northwest, left justified. Using label with -gravity ...