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Hi there!

I am trying to get Asian characters to appear vertically centered.
Here's an example of what I'm after: http://www.freeimagehosting.net/lcg39

I am using the following command line code to generate the image with text. It comes out fine, but it is appearing horizontally.
I'm new to Imagemagick and searched the forums with not much luck. If someone could help me, I'd very much appreciate it

Thank you!

try a new line character \n between each of your characters

see
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#label_vertical
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#user_escapes

Here is a little bit of php code I wrote:
I have done a similar thing using images of the letters and -append

I think you could do it with Pango which can be used with later versions of Imagemagick on a Linux platform.
Pango usage.

fmw42 wrote:try a new line character \n between each of your characters

see
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#label_vertical
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#user_escapes

Thanks very much for your help! This did the trick. Cheers

Bonzo wrote:Here is a little bit of php code I wrote:

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<?php
// With this code you can automaticaly add the \n to every character in the string.
// The last character will not have a \n 
// You could use a form to set the $string value

$string="TEXT"; 
 for ($pos = 0; $pos < strlen($string); $pos++) 
 if ( $pos != strlen($string)-1 ){ 
    $modified .= substr($string, $pos, 1)."\\n"; } 
         
    else $modified .= substr($string, $pos, 1); 
         
exec("convert -pointsize 20 -gravity center label:$modified label_vertical1.gif");
  ?> 

I have done a similar thing using images of the letters and -append

I think you could do it with Pango which can be used with later versions of Imagemagick on a Linux platform.
Pango usage.

Hi Bonzo, Thanks a lot for the code and pointing me to Pango, it's very helpful. Cheers