PerlMagick is an object-oriented Perl interface to ImageMagick. Use this forum to discuss, make suggestions about, or report bugs concerning PerlMagick.
Post a URL to any files that are faulting. We need to reproduce the problem before we can offer a solution.
The second problem requires a patch. It will be in the Subversion trunk by sometime tomorrow. When its available you'll need this code to read text files:
my $x = $image->Read( file => $fh, magick=>'text:' );