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I am new to IM. I got the below problem about annotate or font related.

We I using convert and font/text related. All the text cannot come out from the target image file.

I searched in this forum and found it may coz by the ttf file on the server ??

I tried to find the arial.ttf from my window XP and then upload to my host server. But it still failed. My command using is as below:

/usr/bin/convert -font $full_path_to_public_program/arial.ttf $aFromfile -append -pointsize 30 -gravity North -annotate 0 'Hello' $Tofile

Anyone can give me some advice? Thank you.


P.s. when I run system("exec 2>&1; /usr/local/bin/identify -debug configure -list type");
I got the below messages:

2007-02-25T21:07:41+08:00 0:01 0.000u 6.3.1 Configure identify[9576]: utility.c/unknown/805/Configure
Command line: /usr/local/bin/identify{-debug}{configure}{-list}{type}
2007-02-25T21:07:41+08:00 0:01 0.000u 6.3.1 Configure identify[9576]: configure.c/unknown/482/Configure
Searching for configure file: "/usr/local/lib/ImageMagick-6.3.1/config/type.xml"
2007-02-25T21:07:41+08:00 0:01 0.000u 6.3.1 Configure identify[9576]: configure.c/unknown/482/Configure
Searching for configure file: "/usr/local/share/ImageMagick-6.3.1/config/type.xml"
2007-02-25T21:07:41+08:00 0:01 0.000u 6.3.1 Configure identify[9576]: configure.c/unknown/482/Configure
Searching for configure file: "/usr/local/share/doc/ImageMagick-6.3.1/type.xml"
2007-02-25T21:07:41+08:00 0:01 0.000u 6.3.1 Configure identify[9576]: configure.c/unknown/482/Configure
Searching for configure file: "/usr/local/share/ImageMagick-6.3.1/type.xml"
2007-02-25T21:07:41+08:00 0:01 0.000u 6.3.1 Configure identify[9576]: configure.c/unknown/482/Configure
Searching for configure file: "type.xml"
2007-02-25T21:07:41+08:00 0:01 0.000u 6.3.1 Configure identify[9576]: type.c/unknown/928/Configure
Loading type map "/usr/local/lib/ImageMagick-6.3.1/config/type.xml" ...
2007-02-25T21:07:41+08:00 0:01 0.000u 6.3.1 Configure identify[9576]: type.c/unknown/928/Configure
Loading type map "/usr/local/lib/ImageMagick-6.3.1/config/type-ghostscript.xml" ...

Path: /usr/local/lib/ImageMagick-6.3.1/config/type-ghostscript.xml

Name Family Style Stretch Weight
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
AvantGarde-Book AvantGarde Normal Normal 400
AvantGarde-BookOblique AvantGarde Oblique Normal 400
AvantGarde-Demi AvantGarde Normal Normal 600
AvantGarde-DemiOblique AvantGarde Oblique Normal 600
Bookman-Demi Bookman Normal Normal 600
Bookman-DemiItalic Bookman Italic Normal 600
Bookman-Light Bookman Normal Normal 300
Bookman-LightItalic Bookman Italic Normal 300
Courier Courier Normal Normal 400
Courier-Bold Courier Normal Normal 700
Courier-BoldOblique Courier Oblique Normal 700
Courier-Oblique Courier Oblique Normal 400
fixed Helvetica Normal Normal 400
Helvetica Helvetica Normal Normal 400
Helvetica-Bold Helvetica Normal Normal 700
Helvetica-BoldOblique Helvetica Italic Normal 700
Helvetica-Narrow Helvetica Narrow Normal Condensed 400
Helvetica-Narrow-Bold Helvetica Narrow Normal Condensed 700
Helvetica-Narrow-BoldOblique Helvetica Narrow Oblique Condensed 700
Helvetica-Narrow-Oblique Helvetica Narrow Oblique Condensed 400
Helvetica-Oblique Helvetica Italic Normal 400
NewCenturySchlbk-Bold NewCenturySchlbk Normal Normal 700
NewCenturySchlbk-BoldItalic NewCenturySchlbk Italic Normal 700
NewCenturySchlbk-Italic NewCenturySchlbk Italic Normal 400
NewCenturySchlbk-Roman NewCenturySchlbk Normal Normal 400
Palatino-Bold Palatino Normal Normal 700
Palatino-BoldItalic Palatino Italic Normal 700
Palatino-Italic Palatino Italic Normal 400
Palatino-Roman Palatino Normal Normal 400
Symbol Symbol Normal Normal 400
Times-Bold Times Normal Normal 700
Times-BoldItalic Times Italic Normal 700
Times-Italic Times Italic Normal 400
Times-Roman Times Normal Normal 400

As you say you do not have arial in the imagemagick build ? I think arial is a windows standard font.

You can either upload arial.ttf to your server : or use another font from your list.

Still not work....

did I need to specify the location/path of Helvetica.ttf ?

How do IM know where is the path of Hevetica.ttf if I am not specify

Try this and see if it works; it will create an image with some text on it: In some of your example code you are using user/local/bin/convert and in others user/bin/convert Which is correct ?

Helvetica is in the build so the code will know where it is; if the font is not in the build you have to specify the path.

Yes it is /usr/local/bin/convert , just type missing before. I can use all convert function except the label/fonts related.
Failed to create the label.gif...........

Additional information: (after searched some old posts here)
When I am using identify -list format,

I found the freetype is not installed in it.
So, is the font failure is due to the in-existence of freetype??

I tried another host which show there have Freetype 2.1.9 installed.

But still failed to do the text adding ........

I did have problems on my server with all text at one point. My hosts updated ImageMagick and added the Ghostscript code that cured it.

My host added the free type already

But see got the error below:

convert: unable to get type metrics `1234'

anyone have the idea how to solve it?