Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

I don't know Code::Blocks, so I'm guessing a bit.... This sounds like a "name mangling" problem. In C++ function names are mangled to include things like parameter types. This mangling is compiler specific (even sometimes changing from one version of the same compiler to another). Linking C++ DLLs ...

It's not the version of FreeType. If I copy a CORE_RL_ttf.dll from a prebuilt v6 ImageMagick++ over the one in V7 I get the same poor results. ( I was surprised that doing this actually worked). If I link My app to the V6 version of ImageMagick++ I get the better results. (only for release builds ...

Sorry, both samples were created from the same source at the same time -- any typos I the font name were in my editing of the code for the purpose posting here -- in real life it's user configured. according to "convert -list font" it's this one Font: Arial family: Arial style: Normal stretch ...

The left side is taken from the new version the right side is the old. The font size and positioning has changed slightly as well. My two images have not been scaled, but they are cropped slightly differently -- the positioning is not as far out as they seem here.

We recently upgraded from MSVC-2010 to MSVC-2017 and moved from ImageMagick-6.9.1-Q16 to ImageMagick-7.0.7-15. The text rendered with Image::annotate is noticeably more jagged with the new version. Is there anything we can do to improve it? We use this Magic++ code to read an image file (in this ...