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Hmm - after writing the above, it occurred to me that if the "-size" was not necessary then perhaps the "-trim" and "+repage" arguments were not needed either, so I just tried omitting them and it still worked - so the "-extent" is the key.

Thanks for your response - I'd never have figured out that workaround on my own, since it uses more detailed IM knowledge than I have (I did not know about the "extent" argument). FYI when extending that to my more complex operational case, which uses multiple appends, I found that the ini...

I "upgraded" by installing the latest (6.9.1-2) ImageMagick suite (from source) on my Ubuntu 14.04.2 but find that commmands now produce different results. In particular, in version 6.7.7-10 command convert -size x200 -font Arial -pointsize 20 -gravity NorthWest \ label:"The quick bro...

It also fails with version 6.7.8-9 2014-06-10 Q16 on a CentOS 7 system.
The date on that version is less than one year ago.

Running version ImageMagick 6.7.7-10 2014-03-06 Q16 a SUN raster image fails to "display" and fails to "convert" to PNG with messages convert.im6: memory allocation failed `testing.blipmap.sun' @ error/sun.c/ReadSUNImage/482. convert.im6: no images defined `testing.blipmap.png' @...