Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

What was really weird was I got an error for an app that was not 'installed' in the Applications folder

If you have OS X 10.4 or 10.5 this could be caused by regular maintenance never running as intended - see my page at:

http://links.zero.eu.org/os-x/period/

As far as I can tell IM assumes that type.xml files exist on all OSs. Where can make a formal bug report about this imprudent assumption? Your script only finds a small portion of the 45 ttf fonts at /Library/Fonts: /Developer - 1 /Library/Fonts - 9 /System/Library/Fonts - 5 /System/Library/Framewor...

Thanks for your helpful input Anthony and thanks also for your excellent scripts. As well as the embedded link, which is helpful for those trying to get fonts working, I should have also included a link to your scripts index page at: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/scripts/ I am a little surprised ...

Here is an improved fix for IM's inability to find fonts when ~/.magick/type.xml does not exist and IM's file at eg /usr/local/etc/ImageMagick/type.xml has no data between its <typemap> and </typemap> tags. This has been written for OS X but it can probably be applied to other platforms. 1 - Save th...

I have now resolved this and although Fred's assistance here did not get me very far this earlier thread he contributed to was very helpful: http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=18133 For the sake of others, particularly Mac users with limited Terminal experience, who ...

Prior to my original post I Googled and indications were that my error was caused by a bug introduced at an earlier update. Are you sure that this identified bug is not the cause of my problem? The reason I ask is that reinstalling takes several hours on my Mac whereas I could patch a change of defa...

Assistance with the following would be appreciated. $ montage '*.gif' -geometry 187x187+3+2 new.png montage: unable to read font `(null)' @ error/annotate.c/RenderFreetype/1120. I am new to ImageMagick and have limited command line experience. After several hours playing I failed to get MacPorts wor...