Symbolic Fonts - Only Giving blocks/rectangles on output

[wortell]

I followed all the 'threads' in this forum on fonts, using -encode delegates, etc... and I must admit, that I might be missing something greatly, so please take is easy on me...

fonts that are ** TTF ** aren't all treated equal it seems... i'm wanting to use a "symbolic" font... in particular it's WP_IconicSymbolsA.ttf. If you use it in WORD, or in any Font Viewer, it looks perfect, but whenever it's input into a label, annotate, draw options on any image, it ALWAYS comes up with the dang tall rectangle for each letter used...

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echo -n 'abcdefg' | convert -font WP_IconicSymbolsA.ttf -pointsize 36 label:@-  label_stdin_2.gif

this is what I've been trying to do... somethign simple (as from your "Anthony" line in 'labels' usage tutorials on the imagemagick.org/usage site... but to no avail can I get this to work...

I'm not looking to display it to a screen, as much as I want to put the sybmols (in image form) in an image file...

GULP! I'm afraid I'll get a "can't do that" answer. Thanks.

[anthony]

Often symbol fonts for word processors, don't define any normal letters at all, or just a placeholder like a box. The symbols defined are often at higher UTF character encodings.

I suggest you grab the "graphics_utf" shell script form the IM Examples scripts area and use it to explore other areas to find the symbols.

For example..

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   graphics_utf -n ascii+meta |  \
      convert -font WP_IconicSymbolsA.ttf -pointsize 36 label:@- win:

The "win:" displays on screen.

the "text2img_fixed" script may also prove useful...

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  graphics_utf -n | text2img_fixed -font Dingbats -line 16 x:

[magick]

We tried Apple's font view under Mac OS X and it would not display any characters in the font file.