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Can you add the flag --enable-shared in your configure command?

From your output, it doesn't seem to be enabled.

I compiled ImageMagick from sources this night. I now have the version 7.0.3 and it works accordingly to your examples.

Thank you

That was my thought yes.

user@server:~/scripts$ convert -size 1260x253 -background None -font /home/user/_resources/BebasNeue.otf -fill '#ffffff' -stroke black -strokewidth 6 caption:"testing" -format "%[caption:pointsize]" info:
convert: unknown image property "%[caption:pointsize]" @ warning ...

I ran the command on Linux with Version: ImageMagick 6.8.9-9 Q16. I can confirm I don't have the caption:pointsize output unfortunately.


convert -size 1260x253 -background None -font /home/server/_resources/BebasNeue.otf -fill '#ffffff' -stroke black -strokewidth 6 caption:"Il faut p" -verbose ...

Hi, I'm currently using the autofit capability of Imagemagick but I struggle on how I can retrieve the pointsize used by -caption. I want to know what is the size of the text used to autofit a defined area.


I don't have any issue with label and can use the following command to retrieve the ...

Ok thank you.

So my understanding is:
- that behaviour is known and it's how fonts work
- kerning is relative and apply upon the gap set in the font between characters

Isn't what the kerning is about? Fixing this width to a specific size and removing any variation? I set the kerning to be 0 on that purpose

If not, is there a mean to do that?

IM version:
ImageMagick 6.8.9-9 Q16 x86_64 2016-05-16
Debian 8.4 - x64


Issue
I've recently tried to get the size of a given text in pixel but found myself puzzled by an inconsistency.


The following script retrieves the sizes of each word passed as a variable and output a total size.
text ...