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Thank you for your reply. Could you explain why cairopango and cairo are listed as delegates? Version: ImageMagick 6.8.7-4 2013-11-02 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2013 ImageMagick Studio LLC Features: DPC OpenMP Delegates: bzlib cairo djvu fftw fontconfig freetype ...

Yes, I know how to use Pango. The reason I was asking is that I'm under the impression that Cairo or PangoCairo may have some features that just Pango doesn't have. So I'd like to try out PangoCairo, but have no idea how to do that, since convert pangocairo: and convert cairo: don't do anything.

As you can run Inkscape from the command line, you could simply do that, as a workaround. Possibly. I was trying to get it set up in Cygwin because the ultimate destination is Linux rather than Windows. In playing around with IM on Linux I discovered this: Version: ImageMagick 6.8.7-4 2013-11-02 ...

I can reach Inkscape from the command line, and by twiddling with delegates.xml, was able to pass commands to Inkscape. But not correctly. convert: unable to open image `/tmp/magick-6204TJ_ZRYGCOXlM': No such file or directory @ error/blob.c/OpenBlob/2644. convert: unable to open file `/tmp/magick ...

I got InkScape installed under CygWin, but can't get IM to use it, whether the IM version installed via CygWin, or the latest CygWin version downloaded from here. Any suggestions on how to tell IM where to find InkScape? Further, while Pango still works, the output looks terrible now, sort of like ...

Maybe I've found out how. We'll see.

snibgo wrote:I would use line-height as an attribute of flowRoot. See http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visudet.html#line-height

snibgo, could you tell me how to get IM to use Inkscape, since I think flowRoot is something that Inkscape uses, not IM? I'm running IM under cygwin.

This looks promising. I can see how to do strokes/outlines, but haven't yet come up with line spacing. We'll keep at it.

This is the Arabic from the template for CS4 Photoshop. مرحبا Is that what you need? You'd like to see the Arabic as it should be, and the above gives you that, since your browser should handle the character substitution correctly. There are five characters there, and they read from right to left. Th ...

Another possibility is to put the text in a PDF document. IM will delegate the resterising to Ghostscript, which might (or might not) use the correct glyphs. If you find a good solution, do mention it here as it might help someone else. LaTeX vs. XeTeX/LuaLaTeX has the same issue as IM vs. Pango ...

Otherwise, can you explain further why caption: does not do what you want? Gladly. Caption and label do not handle these complex scripts correctly. Based on the position of the letter in a word, and what characters are near it, different glyphs are supposed to be used. The substitution of the ...

Any suggestions on line spacing?

magick, But I also want to be able to produce outlined text, and cannot see any way to set stroke color and width in Pango, whether using markup or -define. My point is that I cannot see any way to use Pango's markup language to control stroke color, stroke width, or line spacing. Am I missing ...

Another feature of IM that appears to be unavailable in IM's implementation of Pango is line spacing. Shouldn't there be a way to define a line height for Pango?

Hi. I have a need to use complex scripts, such as Arabic and Devangari, and thus need to use Pango since IM can't combine and rearrange the letters properly, as made clear on other threads. But I also want to be able to produce outlined text, and cannot see any way to set stroke color and width in ...