ImageMagick font issue

tavaresm1 · 12-02-2008, 11:57 AM

Ok so my office is currently using an old version of imagemagick 6.1 i'm setting up a new server with the newest version 6.4... well for some reason the new version does not display fonts when it creates the image.. reference link The Bad is what the new version is doing the good is the old version... fyi this is running on a mac OSX 10.4

any suggestions?

arizonagroovejet · 12-02-2008, 04:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tavaresm1

any suggestions?

That since you are using Mac OS X you might get better replies if you post on a Mac OS X forum not a Linux forum.

Apart from that...

Code:

$ convert -list type

Should give you a list of fonts that ImageMagick is aware of.
I happen to have a Mac which has ImageMagick installed on it via MacPorts and it says this:

Code:

case:~ mike$ convert -list type
Bilevel
ColorSeparation
ColorSeparationMatte
Grayscale
GrayscaleMatte
Optimize
Palette
PaletteBilevelMatte
PaletteMatte
TrueColorMatte
TrueColor

I know convert puts text in to images just fine because I've done it in the past. If the output of the above command is blank for you then your problem may, or may not, be that you do not have Ghostscript installed.
If you want to use Mac OS X fonts then look at http://www.gadflymind.com/2008/03/14...n-imagemagick/ though I haven't tried the method suggested.