[magick-users] -append failure

[Anthony Thyssen]

On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:15:07 -0600
magick-users-bounces at imagemagick.org wrote:

| Hi,
| 
| I'm trying to learn how to put labels in images, so was following the
| code in http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/layers/#append :
| 
| convert rose:  -background LawnGreen label:Rose \
|     -background white -gravity center -append /tmp/junk.png
| 
| but no matter what value I pass to the -gravity option, I get:
| 

-gravity effects for -append was added to IM v6.4.7-1
Your ImageMagick is probably older than this.

I do mention this in that section of IM examples. I try to note when
new features are added for this reason.


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