Calculating the correct font size based on an amount of pixels

[jensen31]

Hello Community,

is there a way to calculate the font size depending on a given amount of pixels?

Example: I draw text on 5 different images. The words drawen have different amount of characters. Some 3 long, some 12.
Right now I have a variable $FONTSIZE where I substract the amount of characters*10. Simply means: Longer words get a smaller $FONTSIZE.
Problem: This works with words till 9 character, but not for 12 or even longer. In total longer words get too small.

So I asked myself, is there a way to tell ImageMagick an amout of pixels like 300 and is calculates the best fontsize like: Ok 300 pixel, word to draw 4 letters, fitting fontsize = 130

Thank you very much and have a nice day.
Jens

[snibgo]

IM can calculate a best-fit pointsize. See http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#caption_bestfit . So you can create an image for the text, then composite that over another image if you want.

[jensen31]

IM can calculate a best-fit pointsize. See http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#caption_bestfit . So you can create an image for the text, then composite that over another image if you want.

This works perfect! Thank you so much.
I only have one question... When I copy this into my putty connection it works without error. But when I write it into a script file like test.sh (made it executable) then I get errors.

Code
#!/bin/bash
convert -background red -font Helvetica -gravity center -size 617x176 \
caption:'Big Test' \
"/skripte/imgRender/test/caption_filled.gif"


Error (when in script)
: File or directory not found

How can that be? Why working in command line but not in script? I guess it is a greenhorn thing...

Its not the first time I have this problem. Always when multi line is doesnt work... Where is my mistake?
Thank you!
jens