Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

To specify X11 fonts you must use the well-formed name, for example:

• convert -font -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--6-60-75-75-c-40-iso8859-7 ...

You can specify wildcards :

• convert -font -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 ...

You can use the on disk fonts if your version of ImageMagick includes support for the Freetype delegate library. Type

• identify -list format

and check for the TTF format. It should have a mode of 'r' and mention the Freetype version. If so, you can use -font followed by the absolute path of the font file on disk. You can of course use any font by its handle listed with this command:

• identify -list type

fontconfig support is in the latest versions of ImageMagick. Grab the current release,
ImageMagick 6.2.7-8.