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IM 6.7.6.0 Mac OSX Snow Leopard

Caption with PANGO is not honoring gravity.

I tried Anthony's command from http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#caption



convert -background lightblue -fill blue -font Candice -pointsize 40 \
-size 320x -gravity Center caption:'ImageMagick Rules OK!' \
caption_centered.gif

But the result is left justified.

No rush on my part, but has this been verified?

We have not had a chance to review this problem. Stand by...

magick wrote:We have not had a chance to review this problem. Stand by...

OK. Not urgent on my part. Just wanted to know if you had seen this report.

Thanks.

We can reproduce the problem you posted and have a patch. Look for it in ImageMagick-6.7.6-1 Beta by sometime tomorrow.

It looks like we're going to need to separate caption: into two coders, caption: and pango: as Anthony recommends. There are a number of minor differences between Pango rendering and Freetype rendering.

OK. Probably best to separate them anyway.

Will the new pango: support -gravity (properly)?

Fred

Yes.

Caption with pango formated text is now broken.

convert -define caption:markup=true -define caption:justify=center caption:"`cat im/STORE/pango_test.txt`" show:

convert: must specify image size `<markup>.....

That is -size is not needed for pango, but the if I give a -size then the text is not interpreted as pango text but a string caption.


Also... Can we PLEASE: make pango a different coder to that of normal caption: It would make the above problems easier to deal with, and more backward compatible.

Already done. Pango is now a separate coder. We'll fix the other problem you reported sometime today.

magick wrote:Already done. Pango is now a separate coder. We'll fix the other problem you reported sometime today.

I see it in IMv7 but I don't think you have commited the changes to IMv6

I just upgraded to IM 6.7.6.1 Q16 Mac OSX Snow Leopard. The changelog appears to indicate that CAPTION and PANGO have been separated and that they are now gravity sensitive again.


I have pango installed. But from convert -list format

CAPTION* CAPTION r-- Caption (Pangoft2 1.28.4)

There is no PANGO listed.

So something is wrong as CAPTION is still using Pango



Also neither of the following work correctly:


# this one is still left justified (as posted in the first messages above)
convert -background lightblue -fill blue -font Candice -pointsize 40 \
-size 320x -gravity Center caption:'ImageMagick Rules OK!' \
caption_centered.gif

# this one gives an error message
convert -background lightblue -fill blue -font Candice -pointsize 40 \
-size 320x -gravity Center pango:'ImageMagick Rules OK!' \
pango_centered.gif

convert: no decode delegate for this image format `ImageMagick Rules OK!' @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/532.

We can reproduce the problem you reported and have a patch. Look for it by sometime tomorrow. Thanks.

I can't seem to get "pango" to interpret the text as "pango text".


convert pango:`cat pango_test.txt` show: ...lots more errors... only the first bit is displays as unformated text ...the markup itself as unformated text... .. no change...

For pango, the use of markup should be default action, there is no need for a pango:markup define!

We applied a patch to fix the problem you reported. Also note, we will support color markup soon.