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Hi,

how can i draw text like "It's magic"

 -draw "text 100,100 'Its magic'"

will work fine of course, but

how to do it with the single quotation mark included.

I don't want to put the text in a file, like this

 -draw @MyText.txt

Thanks,

Alexander Peskes

Old question. short answer -- use -annotate instead.
Long answer see IM Examples, Drawing Special Characters in the Text String
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/draw/#special

It works.
Thanks a lot.

Which part, the long answer or the short answer, or both

How to draw text which includes single quotes