[magick-users] Imagemagick won't composite on Kubuntu

[Anthony Thyssen]

Donn Ingle on  wrote...
| Hello list, new here and to IM.
| I have been trying to overlay one image on another -- working up to (one
| day) a script to put drop-shadows onto any image.
| 
| I have been following through the tutorials and have hit a brick wall on the 
| composite command under Kubuntu Dapper.
| http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/compose/
| 
| Here is the same code:
| 
| convert -background none  -fill white -pointsize 36   label:A \
| label_A_white.png
| composite -gravity center label_A_white.png   rose:   \
| compose_over.gif
| 
| That should out a white 'A' over a rose, but all I get is a rose. In fact, 
| none of my tests (using pngs) has ever overlaid at all.
| 
| Any ideas?
| 
It works for me with the current version of IM  v6.3.2-9

However the example above was full of meta-spaces rather than ordinary
spaces causing IM lots of trouble until I replaced them.


As for drop shadows  see the new  -shadow  transform operators
   http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/convolve/#shadow
  Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer )    <A.Thyssen at griffith.edu.au>
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