Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

That's a neat test. I see what you mean about the fonts. On my computer (Windows 8.1), about a third show the problem.

I don't know if the problem is in the fonts writing the diacriticals outside the glyph boundary, or the freetype library, or IM.

Alright, so it's not just Linux that's affected ...

What version of IM?
7.0.8-11, as stated in my post.

It works fine for me, with the default font Arial, IM v7.0.7-28. I don't have the Helvetica font.
As I said, this is not limited to just Helvetica (which by the way is available in the gsfonts package if you're using Ubuntu). Not all fonts ...

I have a problem which arises when I render a text with certain fonts. For some reason, the diacritics are cut off from the letters at the top row when I render a text using caption. Here's an example using the Helvetica font:
magick -background black -fill white -pointsize 90 -density 90 -size ...