"Christina Williams" on wrote... | Hi all, | | I've been running a unix script which calls the image magick convert | command for a long time. This used to run perfectly fine and one day | inexplicably started giving me this error: | | convert: unable to read font | '/user/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/n019113l.pfb' | | | Here is the line of code: | | /usr/local/bin/convert $text -draw $drawcmd:q $rawinfo $mask_name | | I'll define all the variables here, hopefully it wont be confusing: | $text = '-fill white -box black -pointsize 50 -gravity south' | $drawcmd = 'text 0,960 "'$tstamp:q' " ' where $tstamp = 'the date and | time of creation' | $rawinfo = '-size 1023x1023 -depth 8 gray:'$filename1 | $mask_name = filename2 | | This directory doesnt seem to exist on my computer, and the file doesnt | exist on other image magick users' computers. I havent changed or edited | anything within the image magick directories. I'm on a sun blade 2000, | running solaris and image magick version 6.3. Its been crashing recently, | causing some strange behavior (not sure if its related but I thought I'd | mention it). Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated. | Your script looks very IM v5 like, which would be more than 6 years old! You also do not specify a specific font to use, so you are using the default. Probably helvetica.
First before you 'draw' on an image I suggest you read that image in! that is put 'rawinfo' before anything else. As for why the font is failing... /user/local/ probably should be /usr/local/ Looks like your ghostscript was updated and is now miss-installed. Finally I would not use -draw for drawing text on images like this the -annotate is the IM v6 operator that does this without needing the extra level of quoting. See IM examples: Text to image http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#annotate and Annotating Images http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/annotating for other methods that may be more to your liking. Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm feeling very tetrahedral today. (As I think about tetra kites) --- Anthony Thyssen ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony's Home is his Castle http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/ _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
