Circle Font (-distort Arc) not working as expected

[Andreas Franke]

hi,
first i'm new on imagemagick, so please be forbearingly with me.
i need a circle text in some graphics and i tried this from "Font Effects" on this website:

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convert -font Candice -pointsize 32 -background lightblue \
           -fill navy label:"Anthony's IM Examples" \
           -virtual-pixel background -distort Arc 340 \
           font_circle.jpg

because i'm using php i did this:

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system ("/usr/local/bin/convert -font {$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']}/fonts/arial.ttf -pointsize 76 -background lightblue -fill navy label:\"Anthony's IM Examples\" -virtual-pixel background -distort Arc 340 {$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']}/imagick-test-2.jpg",$ret);

but instead of what i expected, just this happens:



How i will get the whole image and not just this little part of it?

ImageMagick Version: 6.4.2 11/28/08

thanks for helping.

Andreas

[el_supremo]

Use +distort instead of -distort.
See the explanation of +distort near the end of this section

Pete

[Andreas Franke]

hi pete,
i did what you told me, but it has no effect:

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system ("/usr/local/bin/convert -font {$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']}/fonts/arial.ttf -pointsize 76 -background lightblue -fill navy label:\"Anthony's IM Examples\" -virtual-pixel background +distort Arc 340 {$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']}/imagick-test-3.jpg",$ret);

there's the image with +distort instead of -distort.



any suggests?

Andreas

[el_supremo]

That's strange. It works for me with IM 6.4.6-7
Perhaps 6.4.2 had a problem. Can you upgrade?

Pete

[Bonzo]

Worked OK for me as well: Version 6.4.0 04/16/08 Q16 & 6.3.5 08/29/07 Q16

[Andreas Franke]

hi pete,

That's strange. It works for me with IM 6.4.6-7
Perhaps 6.4.2 had a problem. Can you upgrade?

just compiled 6.4.6-8 and all works fine.

thanks for helping

andreas