Put single quotes around your variable in the draw statement. That works for me on IM 6.7.1.0 Q16 Mac OSX Tiger.
E.G. lenVal=10:00 convert -size 500x500 xc:white -fill black -pointsize 25 -font Arial -stroke black -draw "text 240,320 '$lenVal'" tmp.png _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list Magick-users@imagemagick.org http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users