Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

fmw42,
thanks you for the clue I needed. :D
I had
-annotate 0,0 "testing\ntesting" tmp2.png
instead of
-annotate +0+0 "testing\ntesting" tmp2.png

soon as I swapped 0,0 with +0+0 all was well!

thanks all for the help and direction. sorry if I'm a bit slow on the uptake, I so rarely need to ...

thanks, I tried that, no joy.

I have found that replacing

convert -size $markSize xc:grey30 -font $FONT -pointsize $POINT -gravity center \
-draw "fill grey text 0,0 '$STEXT'" \
stamp_fgnd.png

with

convert -size $markSize xc:grey30 -font $FONT -pointsize $POINT -gravity center \
-fill ...

It seems odd that there is no way to do multiline text with -draw? No back door or work around?

Is there a different primitive like -draw that will allow me to place the text and specify the fill color. I understand that annotate is a wrapper around -draw to provide a simpler interface, yet it ...

Linux, ImageMagick 6.5.4-7 2012-05-07 Q16 OpenMP

Trying to watermark images and allow multiline text to be used. The user can define there own string. I'm building an image of the text and then compositing it over the image to be water marked. The text image is multi shaded so it is visible on any ...