SOLVED - how to ensure blurred text has enough padding?

[teracow]

Hello,

I'm using:

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$ convert -version
Version: ImageMagick 6.9.7-4 Q16 x86_64 20170114 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: © 1999-2017 ImageMagick Studio LLC

... on Debian Stretch 9.1

Problem: the left-side of the image cuts off the nice blurred shadow behind the yellow title text. When I then add this title image onto another image, the obvious vertical line looks bad.

This is the finished product:


Please note for the images below:

• the dark border is not the image - it's the background of my image viewer (purposely captured during screenshot).
• the checkerboard is the transparent background.

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$ convert -size x100 -font Century-Schoolbook-L-Bold-Italic -background none -stroke black -strokewidth 10 label:"abcdefg" -blur 0x5 -fill goldenrod1 -stroke none label:"abcdefg" -flatten "gallery.title.png"

I tried adding a border but it didn't work how I thought:

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$ convert -size x100 -font Century-Schoolbook-L-Bold-Italic -background none -stroke black -strokewidth 10 label:"abcdefg" -blur 0x5 -fill goldenrod1 -stroke none label:"abcdefg" -border 20 -flatten "gallery.title.png"

How can I get the blurred background shadow text (and then the foreground text) to start rendering more to the right??

Thank you.

[fmw42]

try this (adding space to the left and right)

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convert -size x100 -font Century-Schoolbook-L-Bold-Italic -background none -stroke black -strokewidth 10 label:"\n abcdefg \n" -blur 0x5 -fill goldenrod1 -stroke none label:"\n abcdefg \n" -flatten "gallery.title.png"

Increase the size if you want it taller to adjust for it being longer text.

[teracow]

Ah, good thinking Fred. That should have occurred to me.

I found this does what I want:

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convert -size x100 -font Century-Schoolbook-L-Bold-Italic -background none -stroke black -strokewidth 10 label:"\ abcdefg" -blur 0x5 -fill goldenrod1 -stroke none label:"\ abcdefg" -flatten "gallery.title.png"

Thanks!

[fmw42]

Yes, that should also be sufficient.

[teracow]

And done!

https://github.com/teracow/googliser/co ... c9f094ea27