Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

I understand, thanks

I'm not sure, I'm using ver 6.9.4-3 Q16 x86_64 2016-05-23. but I don't think there is a problem with IM, I actually think it working properly. I thought that maybe there is a way to tell the drawing to use different gravity for the scaling only.

Well, I'm building a scaling animation and if the gravity of the drawing is Center the animation looks better since the scaling occur in the same ratio from all directions but if I use different gravity (North for example) the scaling occur from the West, East & South directions and not the North ...

Yeah but I want it to be like the second example.
I want that the first gravity will effect the translate and the second gravity the scale.

Is that possible?

Hey fmw42 I actually managed to find another solution to my main problem but let me answer all of your questions. The version I'm using is 6.9.4-3 Q16 x86_64 2016-05-23. The result for the this script convert -size 250x250 xc:white -font arial -pointsize 36 -fill "black" -draw "gravity North ...

Hi all, I'm trying to position a text with one gravity and the scale it with another, is that possible? This is a command I'm currently using which isn't working convert -quality 100 input.jpg -font assets/grobold.ttf -pointsize 21 -stroke "none" -fill "white" -draw " gravity North translate 0,0 ...

Yeah, well as one that spent a lot of time investigating font metrics I can tell you that I couldn't find anyway to corollate the diagram with the -debug annotate output.

fmw42, yeah I understand what you mean and from now on I will add my OS and IM version. However, my question was about what the number actually means (just like snibgo said in the last comment). Sorry for not being clear enough.

Hey fmw42,

as I understand this is not a bug because what snibgo said:

"label:" automatically chooses a canvas size based on font metrics. For some fonts, glyphs can exceed these boundaries.

right?

oh, yeah I'm reading them metrics. I also don't know how to parse them.

How do I get the font metrics?

Cool snibgo, it's working. However, I also need to use the output in order to get the font's boundaries. For example, this output will allow me to understand that this character have 7px boundary from top 1px from the right, and 8px from the bottom. label:a LABEL 21x21 22x36+0+7 If I use your method ...

Hey, I'm using a font called grobold ( https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3CzzluVgJclYU9JN0FOWkdPM1E/view?usp=sharing ) When using label with this command convert -background none -debug annotate "-font" "./assets/grobold.ttf" -pointsize 35 label:'!' -trim -write info: x.png this is the result (29px ...

Cool, thanks

Yeah but then I won't get the not trimmed values and wouldn't be able to calculate the right and bottom gaps