Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

We converted your 1.ai file to jpeg without complaint. We're using ImageMagick 6.2.6-8 and AFPL Ghostscript 8.51 (2005-04-18).

The best solution is to use an API such as PerlMagick but from the command line you could create the label from the command line and use the identify program to extract the image size and in a shell script use the size to calculate the offset needed for annotating the text onto you canvas. The xc: f...

To rotate text on a canvas of solid background, try this command:

• convert -size 176x204 xc:black -font impact.ttf -pointsize 88 -fill white -annotate 30x30+0+60 "PIMPIN" output.jpg

The problem is that even the first word cannot be placed within the width of the image canvas so the algorithm bails. We can improve the algorithm to take "do the best you can" approach. Will have a patch in ImageMagick 6.2.7 Beta within a few days.

We suggest you bypass ImageMagick and use the Ghostscript ps2pdf script to convert a multi-page Postscript document to a vector PDF file.

Markers are another thing we need to get into ImageMagick. Its on our list of things to do.

Your SVG image requires gradients and we're still working on gradient support within ImageMagick. We have a patch but have no integrated it into the main distribution just yet. In the mean-time try the rsvg program to render your SVG image.

Try adding

• using MagickLib::GetQuantumInfo;

to Magick++/lib/Magick++/Include.h. That should fix the problem.

Your jacket2.pdf converted fine without complaint for us. We're using ImageMagick 6.2.6-8 and Ghostscript 8.15.1 (2005-09-22).

We could reproduce the problem and will have a patch in ImageMagick 6.2.6-9 Beta by tommorrow.

We could not read the URL you sent us. It would not load, instead it just timed out.

Looks like ImageMagick was built against the Ghostscript delegate library rather than the Ghostscript delegate program (i.e. gs). To change versions of Ghostscript you will need to rebuild ImageMagick from source against the new Ghostscript libraries or add --without-gslib to the configure program t...

Your PDF converted without complaint under Fedora Core 5, Ghostscript 8.51 and ImageMagick 6.2.6-8.

ImageMagick grabs the metrics directly from the font file. We have no reason at this time to believe the metrics are unreliable. As suggested the problem is most likely simply that we speed up the process by using the max advance metric instead of using the slower method of getting the actual advanc...

Grab the latest ImageMagick 6.2.6-8 release. It has an updated TIFF delegate library. It seems to be able to create compressed TIFF image files ok.