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I've found that when I am attempting to do a stroke on text, the stroke color overlaps the fill color and makes my text look choppy and ugly. Here is the command I am using:

convert -background none -fill black -font /usr/share/fonts/TrueType/times.ttf \
+pointsize +antialias -gravity center -size 800x100 \
-stroke white -undercolor none \
caption:'ImageMagick is free software delivered as a ready-to-run binary distribution or as source code that you may freely use, copy, modify, and distribute. Its license is compatible with the GPL. It runs on all major operating systems.' \
out.png

I would appreciate any help or suggestions you might be able to offer.
Thanks

This works for me; I have used a different font, added a font size and changed the stroke colour so it stands out on my page
I think the problem was the +antialias

Yeah, the problem is I need the antialiasing off. My need is for a solid text without any of the dispersion or faded edges.

The outside edge, or both edges of the stroke?

I'm wanting a solid inside with just a single pixel outline. I've been able to fake it by writing the text four times with an offset of 1 pixel in each direction and then writing the text once in the center. This works and does what I want but it takes a lot longer to process than I would think this feature should.

-Doug

You can draw the image twice, once with a stroke color and strokewidth of say 2, and again without those options.

It is a bit like http://imagemagick.org/Usage/fonts/#thick_stroke but using a thiner initial stroke width.

You ware talking about anti-aliasing before, do you want a smooth anti-aliased stroke, or a aliased (two color only) stroke?

You could try using the options
+antialias -fill white -stroke black -strokewidth .5
though the line does not look very smooth due to the aliasing (staircase) effects.