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What should be the correct location of the freetype fonts for IM to work properly ?

Important thing to notice here is that the text file successfully gets converted to png when the text file contains 1byte char(alphabet).
It's not working only with 2byte char(Japanese).

Freetype Library is already installed on the system.

bash-3.2# pkginfo | grep freetype
system SUNWfreetype2 FreeType2 Font library

bash-3.2# /usr/sfw/bin/convert label:"HELLO" 1.png
convert: FreeType library is not available `/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/TTbitmaps/Arial-Bold14.pcf.Z'.
convert ...

Hi,

I am using IM-6.8.3-10 on Solaris. I tried to convert a text to png file by using the following command.

$ convert label:"HELLO" 1.png

1.png file gets created but without the text "HELLO"

While trying to debug the issue, I found that IM-6.8.3 is using system fonts instead of the fonts ...

Hi,

convert(1) command can't handle multibyte characters properly and results the garbled characters.

It's easy to reproduce.. Create a text file which contains multibyte characters and process it with convert(1) as follows.

$ convert label:@test.txt test.png
convert: FreeType library is not ...