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Sorry about the code - I was experimenting with a bunch of different things in my scripts and on the command line.

The 8 bit PNG fixes the file size problem and the fact the the glyphs themselves aren't even square solves the problem with the aspect ratio, so everything is cleared up.

Thanks a lot ...

macOS 10.12.3
ImageMagick 6.9.7-7 Q16 x86_64 2017-02-11

Setting the fuzz factor all the way to 40% got rid of the blank space:

convert -size 300x300 -trim -fill black -fuzz 40% -font GC2004D_.TTF label:@boardstring.txt +repage out.png

I just realized however that this method results in a ...

Thanks guys,

The -trim option fixes everything except for a one pixel wide strip on the right (it unfortunately doesn't look right when a border is added to the image):

http://i63.tinypic.com/15znypy.png

I ran the pointsize test with my font and got this:

convert -background white -pointsize ...

I am trying to create a square image of a chessboard by converting a text string using a special chess font:

convert -size 300x300 -fill black -font chessfont.TTF caption:@boardstring.txt out.png

http://i65.tinypic.com/2rw017c.png

As you can see, the image is not a nicely filled square, but ...