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Hello everybody,

the command "montage label:"Test1" test.pdf" produces a pdf file which contains "Test1" TWO times.

Why does this happen? How can I avoid it?

(Version: ImageMagick 6.7.7-10 2014-03-06 Q16)

Thanks in advance

Shaddix

You need both an input an output image? I see only one.

Likely your PDF has two pages.

Please always provide your IM version and platform.

Hello,

my plattform is Linux version 3.19.0-32-generic (buildd@lgw01-43) (gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) ) #37~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 22 09:41:40 UTC 2015

Adding an image didn't solve the problem: Both commands...
...montage label:"Test1" test.jpg test.pdf
...montage label:"Test1" test.jpg test.png
produce the same result. Two times "Test1" and one time the image.

Any other ideas?

That code creates two images. The first is rasterised "Test1", which is also labelled "Test1" so that will appear beneath it, creating 2 versions of the text. The second is from test.jpg.

What you probably intended is:

montage -label "Test1" test.jpg test.png

This is not what I wanted to reach: I only wanted to produce the text "Test 1" (from the label) and not the image test.jpg.
We use the montage command exactly this way on our customers computer. There it works fine. On my computer at home it doesn't work.

What could I try?

It could be your old version of IM at 6.7.7.10, which is over 150 versions old. Have you tried upgrading IM? Is your customers computer using the same version of IM and libjpeg?

Be sure to use -label "yourtext" and not label:"yourtext" as snibgo said above.

Shaddix wrote:We use the montage command exactly this way on our customers computer. There it works fine. On my computer at home it doesn't work.

What could I try?

I suggest should ensure you have the same version of IM as your customer.

Shaddix wrote:This is not what I wanted to reach: I only wanted to produce the text "Test 1" (from the label) and not the image test.jpg.

If I correctly understand you, then I suggest you use "caption:" instead of "label:", or override the label metadata.

How can I find out my version of libjpeg?

Shaddix wrote:How can I find out my version of libjpeg?

JPE* JPEG rw- Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format (90)
JPEG* JPEG rw- Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format (90)
JPG* JPEG rw- Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format (90)

Says version 90.