Draw text not working

[evolveimg]

Hi I'm new to Imagemagick and I'm struggling to add text to images. I've been messing with the following php code with no success:

echo exec("/usr/bin/convert xc:yellow -resize 200x15! -gravity \"Center\" -draw \"text 0,0 'Test Text'\" $blank_image");

The image defined in $black_image becomes a 200x15 yellow rectangle with no text. I get no errors. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. Please help. Thanks.

[Bonzo]

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echo exec("/usr/bin/convert xc:yellow -resize 200x15! -gravity \"Center\" -draw \"text 0,0 'Test Text'\" $blank_image");

You do not need the echo

You MAY be able to use convert and not /usr/bin/convert

You are not resizing so you need -size not -resize

Center does not need the \"

You could add the font details e.g. font size and colour

Try:

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exec("/usr/bin/convert -size 200x15 xc:yellow -gravity Center -draw \"text 0,0 'Test Text'\" $blank_image");

[evolveimg]

Still only a yellow rectangle with that code and this:

exec("/usr/bin/convert -size 200x15 xc:yellow -gravity Center -draw \"text 0,0 'Test Text'\" -fill black -pointsize 14 -font Times-Roman $blank_image");

[Bonzo]

What version are you using ?

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<?php
echo "<pre>";
system("convert -version");  
echo "</pre>";
?> 

Try adding the error output and see what it comes up with.

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<?php
$array=array();
echo "<pre>";
exec("/usr/bin/convert -size 200x15 xc:yellow -gravity Center -draw \"text 0,0 'Test Text'\" $blank_image 2>&1", $array); 
echo "<br>".print_r($array)."<br>";
echo "</pre>"; 
?> 

I tend to use -annotate rather than -draw these days

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<?php
$array=array();
echo "<pre>";
exec("/usr/bin/convert -size 200x15 xc:yellow -gravity Center -fill black -annotate +0+0 \" Test Text \" $blank_image 2>&1", $array); 
echo "<br>".print_r($array)."<br>";
echo "</pre>"; 
?> 

[anthony]

exec("/usr/bin/convert -size 200x15 xc:yellow -gravity Center -draw \"text 0,0 'Test Text'\" -fill black -pointsize 14 -font Times-Roman $blank_image");

NOTE you will need to set -fill, -pointsize and -font BEFORE the operation that is using in (the -draw).

however instead creating an empty yellow box and drawing into it you could -annotate into it whcih does not have the quotes within quotes problem.

Also why create a empty yellow box! create a label of that -size! If pointsize is NOT set IM will attempt to find a point size that best fits an image of that size!

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exec("/usr/bin/convert -size 200x15 -background yellow -gravity Center -font Times-Roman label:'Test Text' $blank_image");

See IM examples, Text Handling
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/

[evolveimg]

Ah thank you. I'm getting this error:

Array
(
[0] => convert: unable to read font `/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/n021003l.pfb'.
)

1

What do I do?

[evolveimg]

Also this is my version:
Version: ImageMagick 6.0.7 04/20/08 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2004 ImageMagick Studio LLC

[Bonzo]

Your version of Imagemagick is probably about 4 years old but I do not know if that is a problem.

I would simplify things and upload a ttf font into the same folder as the code and try that, change this to the actual font name font.ttf

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<?php
$array=array();
echo "<pre>";
exec("/usr/bin/convert -size 200x15 xc:yellow -gravity Center -fill black -pointsize 16 -font font.ttf -annotate +0+0 \" Test Text \" output.jpg 2>&1", $array); 
echo "<br>".print_r($array)."<br>";
echo "</pre>"; 
echo "<img src=\"output.jpg\">";
?> 

[fmw42]

Too old!!!!! (450 versions behind) You really need to upgrade.