Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Thanks Rick, now I got the gradient, but I've my old problem, that the whole gradient won't be created as a single new image, and that the script starts at point y:0 to start for the gradient. I'm not too clear on what you mean here about a "single new image". The gradient below is indeed...

The configure program has an option to add a UTIL_ decoration to the ImageMagick utilities. That was it --- many thanks. It says, "Decorate exe files with build options." Yes, I checked that, being in a decorating mood. I ignorantly thought it had to do with adding some internal info, not...

rmabry wrote:

magick wrote:The default build is Debug. First perform a 'Clean Solution' and then choose the Release Build and then build.

But there must be more to it --- now I have UTIL_RL_convert.exe, etc., but still now convert.exe, etc.

The default build is Debug. First perform a 'Clean Solution' and then choose the Release Build and then build. Aha, that is indeed what I eventually tried last time. Thanks for your speedy reply. Is that a recent change? In years gone by I'd always use the debug build. Or the default build, anyway....

(It is rare that I upgrade and have zero problems with the build...) Sorry for asking about what will surely be an oversight on my part. I downloaded the latest from ftp.imagemagick.org, built with no errors on WinXP using VisualStudio 2005. I tried to run convert but it aint there. Instead of findi...

Damn, nope, that was a stupid copy& paste error. I've convert -size 600x100 xc:white -font Helvetica -pointsize 80 \( -size 20x20 gradient:#FFFF00-#ff0000 -write mpr:grad \) -fill #FFD505 -stroke mpr:grad -strokewidth 5 -draw "text 20,80 GRADSTROKE" -delete 1 gradstroke.png I forgot t...

mine fails too. (with no error message). convert -size 1024x768 xc:white -font Helvetica -pointsize 80 \( -size 20x80 gradient:#FFFF00-#ff0000 -write mpr:grad -fill mpr:grad \) -strokewidth 5 -draw "text 20,80 'GRADSTROKE'" -delete 1 wallpaper_test.jpg Hmm, this works (except that I gave ...

that was what I thought too, but its not working, do you've another idea? :) Not without the exact command and error message. But I cannot even run the command you posted without escaping the parentheses AND putting spaces around them. On the other hand, the Linux system I am using is way out of da...

froesi wrote:It says that the brackets are not allowed and so on.
Does anybody have an idea?

You probably just need to escape them:

\( blah blah \)

Rick

Hi froesi, I think I see what you mean. Try variants of the following. Here it is with a 20-pixel height for the gradient: convert -size 600x100 xc:white -font Arial -pointsize 80 ( -size 20x20 gradient:#FFFF00-#ff0000 -write mpr:grad ) -fill mpr:grad -strokewidth 5 -draw "text 20,80 GRADSTROKE...

This seems to work they way you want: convert -size 600x100 xc:white -font Arial -pointsize 80 -fill gradient:#FFFF00-#ff0000 -strokewidth 5 -draw "text 20,80 GRADSTROKE" gradstroke.png This is not quite the way things were described in the post referred to in the post previous to yours (s...

My custom modules work no more. That was over a year ago, and a fix was available soon after. I am now having a new problem and I have changed nothing. The symptom is this: I run my modules and I get the error convert: ImageFilterSignatureMismatch `separate': 0 != 63710. (The process in this exampl...

Reply to self: A fix is in the works at Perl: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2007/03/msg122188.html Various problems encountered when building perl with Visual Studio 2005 (aka VC++ 8) have already been fixed in the latest development version of perl, including issues with the man...

Note to self: This is how I finally got PerlMagick running on Windows under Visual Studio 2005 (VC++ 8) , after two days of aggravation and cursing. In short, the problems were manifest . But the solution was, in the end, easy. The path to the solution was along a road through Microsoft Hell (specif...

When giving the 6-element affine matrix in PerlMagick, the last element is not read I should also mention that for arrays of length 1 through 6, the affine matrix is not properly formed because the last element is not read. (Giving it a bogus 7-element array will cause the first 6 elements to be re...