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

[Donn Ingle]

> 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

Thanks for the reply. 

I assume 'meta spaces' means " " or something like it. Instead of
copy/paste from the tutorial, I typed it in and I still do not get a
composite. I get the white A in one file, but the composite command simply
creates a file with a rose, no A overlaid.

The version of IM with Kubuntu Dapper is : 6.2.4 -- is this a known problem
with this version? 

I don't want to go the compilation route as that would confuse the package
system (and removing imagemagick by apt-get is just not an option with all
the other stuff that depends on it.) -- unless there's an easy way for the
two versions to live side-by-side.

As to the -shadow operator, I was experimenting with it and came to the
point where the picture was to be overlaid on the shadow, but composite
just won't work.

/d