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And again, it all seems to be working now: #!/bin/sh /opt/local/bin/convert -size 290x70 xc:white -bordercolor blue -border 5 -fill black -stroke black -strokewidth 1 -font Helvetica -pointsize 40 \ -draw "translate -120,0 skewX 0 gravity center text 0,0 '$txtstr1'" \ -draw "translate...

If you can break up the line to basic image processing steps on each line. It just makes it easier to read and understand. Unfortunately this was one of the things that I suspect was causing issues. Neither the \ nor the ^ seem to be recognised as line breaks and it would only execute the first lin...

Hmm, it now seems to be working. I have the bash script with $txtstr arguments in it and I'm calling it from terascript and passing those arguments. I'll play around some more and see if I can work out where I was going wrong before and will report back here and Terascript talk list. Thanks for all ...

My suggestion is to make a test script with hard coded values and see if that runs. First test in the command line and then put it into your scripting environment with the right exec call. Ok, here is my code, copy and pasted from the terminal: /opt/local/bin/convert -size 320x85 canvas:none -font ...

Cheers, I get it now.

The Terascript boys are suggesting that instead of passing arguments to a script I should formulate the script, write it to a temp folder and execute it.

The problem I am having with this method is that the written file doesn't have 'execute' permission.

The Terascript boys suggested writing the script to a temp file including Vars and executing that file. Seems to work but is an inelegant solution. To make a true multiuser system I need to give the script file a unique ID, execute it, and then delete the script.

anthony wrote:You may also need to remove a 'white space' output image

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   rm ' '

Sorry, I don't understand what you are saying?

Removed the white space from the \ version. Doesn't give an error but still only performs the first command.

Tried with the ^ version and same result. And also with the one line version.

Okay, in the Terminal entering: -size 320x85 canvas:none -font Helvetica -pointsize 72 ^ -draw "text 25,60 'Magick'" -channel RGBA -blur 0x6 -fill darkred -stroke magenta ^ -draw "text 20,55 'Magick'" gives an error: convert: unable to open image `^': No such file or directory @ ...

I'm using Mac OSX, which is a flavour of Unix. I'm using the ^ in place of \ as it seemed work in an earlier experiment. I'll change it back and see if that makes a difference.

I'm running IM 6.7.6.0 BTW.

Hi all, I have been using ImageMagick for years but only to resize on the fly uploaded images to websites. I now wish to get a little more functionality out of it and use it to create CAPTCHA images. I found Fred's ImageMagick Scripts and also realised he is a big contributor to this forum. My issue...

I thought I'd document the procedure I went through to install ImageMagick on Lion (I'll did a separate write up for Snow Leopard). I'll leave out all the dead ends I went down to save you the trouble. And I'll try to be concise but not skip any of the steps that are often overlooked by power users ...

I thought I'd document the procedure I went through to install ImageMagick on Snow Leopard (I'll do a separate write up for Lion). I'll leave out all the dead ends I went down to save you the trouble. And I'll try to be concise but not skip any of the steps that are often overlooked by power users a...

I just reloaded MacPorts and ran the install again. Seems to be going well.