Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Thanks for such quick response times! After some research I figured out how to build the latest code on my Debian system (the Debian build log from the package maintainer helped https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=imagemagick&arch=amd64&ver=8%3a6.8.9.9-7.1&stamp=1464822354) and I ...

Interesting! Indeed the policy.xml file in the package maintainer's version removed the rights to use the @ indirection. However, when I commented this out I had only partial success. The following succeeds now: convert -gravity south caption:@test.txt -type truecolormatte PNG32:/tmp/tmp968ZtD.png ...

After an update from Debian oldstable to Jessie, the convert command locks my CPU up at 100% and never completes (even after a long time). The caption is specified using a @ syntax that's generated by Moviepy and previously worked just fine. Specifying the caption as text works around this ...