[magick-developers] -raise n

[Anthony Thyssen]

"Rick Mabry" on  wrote...
| I don't know if it's a bug, but I just noticed that my old scripts that used 
| 
| 	-raise n
| 
| where n is an integer, no longer work. I'm not sure when they broke, since I 
| cannot be sure I have used the script since 2001. 
| 
| I figured out that the usage is now 
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| 	-raise nxn 
| 
| to achieve the same effect. But why shouldn't the first be translated into 
| the second? There are similar conventions for other operators, if I recall 
| correctly. Anyway, in case it is an oversight, I thought I'd ask.
| 
| It took a while to find what the problem was, thanks to an unhelpful message 
| (Win XP,  ImageMagick 6.3.7 11/21/07 Q16):
| 
| 	convert -size 72x24 xc:white -pointsize 16 -strokewidth 1 -stroke blue \
| 		-draw "text 6,18 'Lazy Leg'" -raise 4 lazyleg1.gif
| 
| gives the amusing error
| 
| 	convert: size must exceed bevel width `white'.
| 

Fixed for next point release.

  Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer )    <A.Thyssen at griffith.edu.au>
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