[Solved] Annotation suddenly looks weird without change of command

[Sinaf]

First things first: ImageMagick 6.8.9-9 Q16 arm 2017-07-15 on ARMBIAN 5.31

I have been running the following command to annotate a webcam picture that gets pulled every 10 minutes. This has been working fine for more than a year.

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convert webcam0.jpg -font 'Inconsolata' -pointsize 28 -gravity SouthWest -stroke black -strokewidth 3 -annotate +35+5 'www.websitename.de' -stroke none \
-fill white -annotate +35+5 'www.websitename.de' -gravity South -stroke black -strokewidth 3 -annotate +0+5 "$TIME" -stroke none -fill white \
-annotate +0+5 "$TIME" -gravity SouthEast -stroke black -strokewidth 3 -annotate +35+5 "ca. $TEMP°C | $HUM%" \
-stroke none -fill white -annotate +35+5 "ca. $TEMP°C | $HUM%" webcam1.jpg

Since a couple of days, however, this is how the annotation is displayed:


It might have something to do with the last update (15.07.), but I'm not completely sure.
Can someone point me in the right direction on how to solve this mess. Thanks in advance.

[snibgo]

I can't see an obvious problem. But you are annotating an image webcam0.jpg that you haven't shown us, with variables you haven't shown. Please provide a reproducible example.

[Sinaf]

For the sake of testing I have set the TEMP and HUM variables manually.

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TIME=$(date +"%H:%M:%S am %d.%m.%y")

TEMP="30.0"
HUM="50.0"

Also for testing purposes I have used this grey image, so it is easier to spot the "error".

This is the complete image after the command from my first post:

[magick]

It must be related to the upgrade. We're using ImageMagick 7.0.6-4 and getting expected results.

[Sinaf]

This is no "angry customer story". I have used ImageMagick for a long time and I have been very happy with it. I tried to upgrade through backports, but there wasn't a newer version available. In hindsight, I should have tried downgrading to the previous version. Oh well, I eventually ended up trying GM and made it work this way.

Thanks for your help, and should the occasion arise, I'll definitely give IM another try.

[fmw42]

I tested your command with IM 6.9.9.3 Q16 Mac OSX and changed fonts to Arial. I did not have your font. It works fine for me. So perhaps all you need to do is upgrade to a more current version of Imagemagick. Your version of ImageMagick (6.8.9.9) is nearly 100 versions old.

[Sinaf]

Well, that's the thing with Debian. Sure, I could compile the latest release from source, and it would probably work again. The downside is that I then have to make sure to keep it up-to-date separately. By sticking to the (old) versions in my package manager I don't have worry about that.

I appreciate your help, though.

[fmw42]

It looks like this user has the same issue. viewtopic.php?f=3&t=32406

My guess is that your Linux distribution may be patched with a buggy version of ImageMagick or was not patched properly.

[fmw42]

I tested your command on IM 6.8.9.9 Q16 Mac OSX with your font and it works fine for me.