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hi, please hw do i start using imagemagick on a window cmd though i have imagemagick installed and its working correctly but i try to paste "
convert -size 320x100 xc:lightblue -font Candice -pointsize 72 \
-tile pattern:checkerboard -annotate +28+68 'Anthony' \
font_tile.jpg"
on my cmd but wasn't working the way i had expected it, pls help me, am really new to imagemagick. always getting an error such as: 'font_tile.jpg' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Backslash "\" is the line-continuation character for bash. For Windows CMD or BAT, use the caret "^"

after replacing the ''\" to "^" . am stil getting error of ''Invalid Parameter - 320x100' these what i typed into the window cmd
"convert -size 320x100 xc:lightblue -font Candice -pointsize 72 ^
-tile pattern:checkerboard -annotate +28+68 'Anthony' ^
font_tile.jpg"

Did you allow Imagemagick to add itself to the environmental variables path? You may be using the built in windows convert program that renames files.

It works OK for me except I do not have that font installed.

As Bonzo suggests, "Invalid Parameter" is a message from the Microsoft program, not from ImageMagick.

@dt59: What version of IM did you install? Where did you download it from? Did you check the installation had worked? Does it have "convert.exe" or "magick.exe"?

@Bonzo ur site is down, i thought i could get some tutorial from there, however i allowed imagmagick to add itself to the environmental variables path is that the cause??

No if it is added automatically it should work; that is what I do.

You can add the path to convert in your code for example: C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-7.0.5-Q16\convert.exe or you can rename convert.exe to something else for instance IMconvert and use that in your code instead of convert.

If using version 7 use magick instead of convert.

Thank you for the note about my site; the links are now working. A problem with a site update and now using https; although it should have redirected automatically.

oh..! my image magick is not still working after many reading and watching. i dont know what to do again. can somebody please just me.
i typed:
"convert -size 320x100 xc:lightblue -font Candice -pointsize 72 ^
-tile pattern:checkerboard -annotate +28+68 'Anthony' ^
font_tile.jpg"
is not working am not seeing anything nice all i see is an error every time. and am running at of time for school. pls some body should me. the code is nt the problem but hw to get it start working on my machine.

dt59 wrote:... is not working am not seeing anything nice all i see is an error every time.

What error do you see?

If you get "Invalid Parameter", see comments above.

You didn't answer my questions:

snibgo wrote:@dt59: What version of IM did you install? Where did you download it from? Did you check the installation had worked? Does it have "convert.exe" or "magick.exe"?

@snibgo am sorry for not replying. here is the version of IM:
Version: ImageMagick 7.0.6-3 Q16 x64 2017-07-24 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2015 ImageMagick Studio LLC
License: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/license.php
Visual C++: 180040629.
I downloaded it from www.imagemagick.org.
can i check if image magick is working correctly.
yes i ahve magick.exe install

Invalid parameter probably means your are accessing the Windows convert and not the ImageMagick convert. But you have installed IM 7, so you do not want convert. You want to use magick.

yes u are right fmw42. but here is another problem(window cmd -> error i get after typing the above code u suggested)

Simple the font Candice is either not installed or not registered with Imagemagick; try a different font. The first error then creates the second error and so on.

If you have font Candice on your system, then you can use -font path2/Candice.ttf rather than just the name. To get the name only, you need to modify your type.xml file to add that font after you put it on your system.

You can download Candice font at for example: https://fonts2u.com/candice.font