Spaces at beginning of label: disappear...

[GeeMack]

I copied this over from a discussion in the "Users" section of the forum...
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I try to create an image with text and border around the image with a background texture. my problem is that the text is pasted to the edge to the left, and when I try to add a "space" before the text that is ignored but if I add a "space" in the end it works

This is an issue even with a current release ImageMagick 7.0.2-10 running on Windows 10 64. When I run this command to test several labels...

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magick -pointsize 48 ^
   label:"My Text 1 2 3" ^
   label:" My Text 1 2 3 " ^
   label:"\ My Text 1 2 3 " ^
   label:"     My Text 1 2 3     " ^
   label:"\     My Text 1 2 3     " ^
   -bordercolor gray -background gray -border 10x10 -append output.png

... you can see how all the spaces at the beginning of the text string in a "label:" get removed if the first one isn't escaped with a backslash "\".



This may be a bug that needs to be addressed by the developers, or it may just be if a space is the first character in the "label" it needs to be escaped to make it work.
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[snibgo]

This is a change of behaviour. In v6.9.5-5, I get the same bad result as GeeMack. I call it a bug, because there seems no good reason for the change.

Under v6.9.2-5, I get the correct behaviour: