how to handle apostrophe within text?

[jpiquemal]

Hello
tested with Windows XP:

-draw "text 0,0 'what\'s new'"

this works perfectly
Jean
http://www.konvertor.net

[mushu]

Does anyone have a solution for this under linux?

I'm using PHP's exec with commands that look like this:

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/usr/local/bin/convert 2.jpg -resize 150x150! \( 2.jpg -resize 150x150! -blur 2 -fill 'rgba(255,255,255,0.5)' -draw 'rectangle 0,0,150,150' -fill 'rgba(255,255,255,1.0)' -draw 'rectangle 0,50,150,100' -gravity Center -font Harrison.ttf -fill black -pointsize 11 -annotate 0 'Harper's' \) -append 2a.jpg

\' escaping doesn't seem to work with -annotate or -draw.

[anthony]

The problem is the double quoting screme needed for -draw.
Look at IM examples...
Drawing Special Characters in the Text String
http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graph ... w/#special

You can however now avoid the double quotes and use the recomended method (with image meta data % escapes) -annotate
For example

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   -annotate "That's it! Isn't it?"

See Annotate text to image option...
http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graph ... cape_chars

[mushu]

That's sorted it. Thanks!