Re: convert -draw text with numbers problem

Anthony Thyssen <[email protected]> Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:43:23 +1000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.video.image-magick.user
Message-ID	<20110722124323.372dfc9b@wraith>

On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:59:17 -0400
[email protected] wrote:
| friends
| 
| I have a difficulty with convert -draw text
| ...
| -fill black -pointsize 25 -draw "text 240,160 $dbIDVal" \
| -fill black -pointsize 25 -draw "text 70,200 'Source'" \
| -fill black -pointsize 25 -draw "text 240,200 $srcVal" \

The variables still need quotes.

These are needed by IM to separate the sring from the other draw
options.

EG:

 -fill black -pointsize 25 -draw "text 240,200 '$srcVal'" \

Also major warning.  be sure to check the inserted variables
for single quotes and backslashes, or draw make get confused!

See Drawing Special Characters in the Text Strings
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/draw/#text


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