Re: gm convert -draw TEXT is buggy

On Thu, 24 Sep 2015, [email protected] wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 21:24:52 -0500 (CDT), Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>
>> What you call a halo looks like JPEG compression artifacts to me.
>
> I used another command:
>
> convert -font courier-bold -pointsize 10 -fill black \
> -draw "text 0,12 'SCHLOSS AHRENSBURG'" \
> ahrensburg.jpg ahrensburg.jpg
>
> As you can see: ImageMagick does a better job.

As I hopefully explained, ImageMagick duplicates the original quality 
level of the input JPEG file while GraphicsMagick does not.  Please 
test with a lossless format like PNG or use my previous advice for how 
to save using original JPEG parameters.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
[email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

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