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special characters like accents ?

Posted: 2008-08-30T15:05:06-07:00
by mimenko
Hello,

I'm French and I'd want to use accents like éèêà... in text.
But when I use "-draw" command with Arial font for example, I don't have accents. I've tried to escape with "\" but nothing happens.
Is there a way to add this specific string with ImageMagick (Windows version) ?

Many thanks for your answer,

Phil

Re: special characters like accents ?

Posted: 2008-08-30T15:22:40-07:00
by magick
Have you reviewed Text to Image Handling at http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/?

Re: special characters like accents ?

Posted: 2008-08-30T16:03:15-07:00
by mimenko
Yes, I've tried for instance :
convert -fill blue -pointsize 10 label:" é è à ù " label.gif
but nothing happens OK.
I've tried also with text file (-label @info.txt ) but nothing good.

Could you help me please ?
Thanks a lot by advance.

Phil

Re: special characters like accents ?

Posted: 2008-08-30T16:15:19-07:00
by magick
Verify your version of ImageMagick includes the Freetype delegate library which is required for rendering accents. Type
  • identify -list configure
Is freetype associated with the DELEGATES tag?

Re: special characters like accents ?

Posted: 2008-08-31T06:25:35-07:00
by mimenko
I have Windows version. How can I add modules, or verify if they exist ? "Identify" seems not working with batch file...
I must use words with accents, but is it possible with Windows version ?
Maybe with Unicode, UTF-8 ? But how can I do ?

Thanks a lot to give me the way.

Phil

Re: special characters like accents ?

Posted: 2008-08-31T11:00:01-07:00
by mimenko
I've seen file "delegates.xml" under folder ImageMagick-6.3.6-Q16/config. Is it the right file and is it enough ?

Phil

Re: special characters like accents ?

Posted: 2008-08-31T14:43:35-07:00
by fmw42
delegate library located here:
http://www.imagemagick.org/download/delegates/

download and install