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I'm trying to render text using the following command-line: The text renders but the characters are all overlayed rather than advancing along the x-axis.
The BDF font in question came from here: http://unifoundry.com/pub/unifont-10.0.06/font-builds/. I have tested with other BDF fonts and the result is the same. Non-BDF font files work perfectly.

Is there something I should be specifying on the command-line or is this a bug? Thank you!

- Tim Rawlinson

I am not sure Imagemagick supports BDF fonts.

Typical fonts that ImageMagick can use are:

| True Type Fonts (ttf)
| Ghostscript Fonts (afm)
| Open Type Fonts (otf)

BDF is supported by freetype, which I believe ImageMagick uses. Code for the driver appears to be here: https://github.com/ImageMagick/ttf/tree/master/src/bdf? It can certainly load the font file as the correct characters do appear.

The ImageMagick developers will need to look into this. Perhaps the font glyphs are not well define?

Thanks for the problem report. We can reproduce it and will have a fix in the near future.