Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

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...
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.

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.. The "win:" displays on screen.

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

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