How create persian or arabic text with imgaemagick ?

[fmw42]

User snibgo has a good point. But note you will have to install the PANGO delegate library (and possibly reinstall IM) if your system does not already have it. I do not know that much about what is installed with Windows systems.

See http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#pango for use of PANGO: to create text images.

[mostafanastary]

my server administrator told me Pango is too old and without new update and maybe not safe or useable .

can i use it or not?

[MR. Garcia]

Hi there, and so sorry to bring an old topic up...
How can I use pango to write ON a picture?
I can use it to append a text on top/bottom of a picture, like this:
convert Input.jpg -font Yekan -fill Red -pointsize 20 -gravity Center pango:"تست..." -append Output.jpg

But when I remove the "-append" parameter (to put the text on the center of the image), like this:
convert Input.jpg -font Yekan -fill Red -pointsize 20 -gravity Center pango:"تست..." Output2.jpg
It will create two output files:
Output2-0.jpg which is the same as Input.jpg
and
Output2-1.jpg which is just the text on a white background :/

How can I print that text on the picture?
Thanks in advanced

[fmw42]

Create and image using pango: that puts text onto a transparent background. The composite the result onto your background image at the location you want. See
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#pango
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/compose/#compose
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/layers/#convert

[MR. Garcia]

Create and image using pango: that puts text onto a transparent background. The composite the result onto your background image at the location you want. See
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#pango
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/compose/#compose
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/layers/#convert

Hi again, and THANK YOU for saving my time on this!
I'm just gonna paste a simple example of this here, for others maybe:
convert -gravity Center -fill black -font Arial -pointsize 50 -background Transparent pango:"تست!" Persian.png
composite -gravity center Persian.png AnotherPic.jpg Output.jpg