how to read file to caption: *without* modifying @ policy.xml

[fredzannarbor]

Hi,

I need to create a caption using text from a file but *without* modifying the policy.xml. What is a workaround?

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convert -background white -fill black -gravity west -size 2000x2000 -font "Utopia" -pointsize "64" caption:@sumall.txt sumall3.png

produces:

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convert: not authorized `@/tmp/pagekicker/028c5142-e8b2-11e6-ace4-02607828b875/sumall.txt' 

[snibgo]

As a workaround, build the command from the contents of the file. I would do this via an environment variable in Windows. In bash, you can embed a "cat" command within the convert.

[fmw42]

In unix, do

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data=`cat file.txt`
convert -size 100x100 -font arial -pointsize 18 label:"$data" result.png

Or this seems to work for me

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cat test.txt | convert -size 100x100 -font arial -pointsize 18 label:@- result.png

Same should work for caption: