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I'm stumped by this one. I installed imagemagick by following the instructions here

I have some eps files I want to convert to jpgs. When I run the following command it runs without error but oddly it gives me an image that says "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" at the top along with the alphabet and some other letters. Then the phrase "that which does not destroy me only makes me stronger" repeated at different font sizes. Now the eps image is a totally different image! What the hell is going on here?

$ convert some.eps some.jpg

ImageMagick thinks your image is a Truetype font file. Try this:

• convert logo: logo.eps
  convert logo.eps logo.jpg

Does that work?

$ convert logo: 178I6495073007.eps
$ convert 178I6495073007.eps j.jpg
sh: gsc: command not found
sh: gsc: command not found
convert: Postscript delegate failed `178I6495073007.eps': No such file or directory @ ps.c/ReadPSImage/737.
convert: missing an image filename `j.jpg' @ convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/2710.

I would guess gsc is to do with Ghostscript - did you install that?

yes, you can see the bash script I used to compile everything here

A wild guess, but could it be a permissions problem? I notice you installed some of the stuff with sudo and perhaps it has put some of the files in locations which the superuser can reach but which you as an ordinary mortal cannot.

Pete

all the permissions are fine from a quick sanity check.

type

convert -list configure

see if the line DELEGATES contains gs (and possibly freetype). If not, then Ghostscript was not fully installed properly. I am not sure if you need freetype as well or not.

I do not know about the use of MacPorts, but I had lots of trouble installing Ghostscript manually on my Mac OSX Tiger. It needed the Ghostscript.Framework and gsc installed. Don't know if this will help.

DELEGATES bzlib freetype gs jpeg png tiff x11 xml zlib

It doesn't seem to be finding ghostscript, which it calls "gsc".

Try this command: It should print the path and name of what it thinks is ghostscript.

Pete

$ convert -verbose 178I6495073007.eps j.jpg
"gsc" -q -dQUIET -dPARANOIDSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=0 "-sDEVICE=pngalpha" -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 "-r72x72" -g640x480 "-sOutputFile=/var/folders/8I/8IhqawQrF2egZyrkom0Y4GZ9Rdg/-Tmp-/magick-WjtIM1sV" "-f/var/folders/8I/8IhqawQrF2egZyrkom0Y4GZ9Rdg/-Tmp-/magick-ASes0qyb" "-f/var/folders/8I/8IhqawQrF2egZyrkom0Y4GZ9Rdg/-Tmp-/magick-CrXDkGp5"
sh: gsc: command not found
"gsc" -q -dQUIET -dPARANOIDSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=0 "-sDEVICE=pngalpha" -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 "-r72x72" -g640x480 "-sOutputFile=/var/folders/8I/8IhqawQrF2egZyrkom0Y4GZ9Rdg/-Tmp-/magick-WjtIM1sV" "-f/var/folders/8I/8IhqawQrF2egZyrkom0Y4GZ9Rdg/-Tmp-/magick-ASes0qyb" "-f/var/folders/8I/8IhqawQrF2egZyrkom0Y4GZ9Rdg/-Tmp-/magick-CrXDkGp5" -c showpage
sh: gsc: command not found
convert: Postscript delegate failed `178I6495073007.eps': No such file or directory @ ps.c/ReadPSImage/737.
convert: missing an image filename `j.jpg' @ convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/2710.

My last wild guess.
Have a look at the file config/delegates.xml in your ImageMagick installation directory.
Make a backup copy first.

First of all, see if any of the entries in this file refer directly to "gsc" in the "command=" field. If they do, change this to the full path and name of your ghostscript executable.

If not, then you 'll see that quite a few entries have a command entry which begins with ""@PSDelegate@"
Change all occurrences of @PSDelegate@ to the full pathname of your ghostscript and try again.

Pete