Generating an EPS or TIFF CMYK image from text

[jagku]

Hello,

I am trying to generate an EPS of tiff file using text entered by the user.

My code is as follows (I change 1.tiff to 1.eps when generating an EPS).

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convert -fill "cmyk(20%,30%,40%,10%)" -font "FreeSerifBold.ttf" -density 450 -pointsize 13 -antialias label:"www.company.com" -background None -colorspace cmyk 1.tiff

The generated tiff file cannot be read.
Can anybody see what I have missed?

Thanks for any help!

[snibgo]

I don't have that font. After removing that part of the command, it works fine for me, IM v.6.8.8-0 on Windows 8.1. The text is light but readable.

What version IM are you using? What is wrong with the result? You can put it somewhere like dropbox.com and paste the link here.

[jagku]

Thanks.

The tiff file and free font can be found here:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/f81176fan0wurqe/t78fHCvb4M

I have version: ImageMagick 6.5.7-8 (running it on Ubuntu)

Thanks!

[snibgo]

Your result looks perfect to me. What do you think is wrong with it?

[jagku]

Hi,

Yes - that is very strange.
I tried it on another computer and it sprang up!
Thanks for spending time looking at this for me - I really appreciate it.

Do you know how to get rid of the white background (I would like it to be transparent)?

I have tried:

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convert -fill "cmyk(20%,30%,40%,10%)" -font "FreeSerifBold.ttf" -density 450 -pointsize 13 -antialias -background None label:"www.company.com"-depth 8 -colorspace cmyk 1.tiff

and

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convert -fill "cmyk(20%,30%,40%,10%)" -font "FreeSerifBold.ttf" -density 450 -pointsize 13 -antialias label:"www.company.com" -transparent "cmyk(0%,0%,0%,0%)" -depth 8 -colorspace cmyk 1.tiff

Thanks!

[snibgo]

The image is CMYK, and perhaps whatever you were viewing it with couldn't handle CMYK.

For a transparent background, insert "-background None" anywhere before the "label:".

[jagku]

Thank you.

I tried:

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convert -fill "cmyk(20%,30%,40%,10%)" -font "FreeSerifBold.ttf" -density 450 -pointsize 13 -antialias -background None label:"www.company.com"-depth 8 -colorspace cmyk 1.tiff

However, the background is now appearing black?

Thanks!

[snibgo]

So you did. Sorry, I missed that.

It works fine for me. Perhaps your ancient version is causing problems. (You should also have a space before "-depth 8".) Try it without "-colorspace cmyk".

[jagku]

Thank you - all working for TIFFs!