Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Indeed convert does what it is told to do, so many thanks to all
James

The 6.7.. version works perfectly (ubuntu 14.04) The 6.8.. version does not work correctly on short strings (ubuntu 16.04) Like thee, I have tried the png:color-type=6 and it remains as 3 I do not know why you insist that -draw does not need the correct quoting. To be clear there are shell quotes ...

Wow that'll teach me to not preview - sorry

First thanks for any help, I really appreciate it. "First, I would suggest you use convert instead of mogrify if you are processing only one image." The arguments are used programatically not by the shell so QUOTES are not needed and indeed will not work. The image is generated whenever the overlay ...

Hi This is not really a developer question except that the developers did something that broke the way image magic did work. My requirement is very technical and exact (Text overlay on video captured by Sensoray S2253 cards) I draw text onto a blank canvas of correct size: mogrify -pointsize 20 ...

If this is too hard for this group who should I ask

Hi I draw text onto a blank canvas of correct size: mogrify -pointsize 20 -font Helvetica -define png:format=png32 -fill snow -stroke black -strokewidth 5 -draw text 2,22 "look at the huge telescope" -stroke none -draw text 2,22 "look at the huge telescope" /dev/shm/record12.png perfect. file /dev ...