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I am trying out the example from http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/. This gives me an image of 1920 x 1080 pixels with the text justified over the full width. I expected (as the example in the documentation shows) text with small letter in the upper left corner. I looks like the -pointsize instruction is not accepted.

Can anybody help me ?

I run image magick 6.5.4 under ubuntu jaunty on a amd64 box.

Thanks

It works Ok on Windows with Im 6.5.4 altough I changed the font to Arial as I do not have Palatino-Italic installed.

Try it all on one line and see what happens:

You have bad space characters in your command line. After I zapped gremlins in your text, it worked fine for me. I also did not have your font, so changed to something more common. Perhaps your Palatino-Italics is not ttf.

Try this

convert -background lightblue -fill blue -font Helvetica -size 1920x1080 -pointsize 24 label:Anthony label_size.gif

This ability to use BOTH -size and -pointsize together was only added recently! That is in IM v6.5.2-4.

The warning on the "Text to Image Handling" section of IM examples
says...

Before version 6.5.2-4, IM would completely ignore the "-pointsize" setting if a "-size" setting is also given. This causes the text to be auto-sized to 'best fit' the size given.

Made an error in previous post. Version 6.4.5 was installed.
The space was not the problem.
I compiled 6.5.4.9 and now it is working.

Thanks for all of you who replied my post.