[magick-users] -append failure

[Seb]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 17:10:42 +1000,
Anthony Thyssen <A.Thyssen at griffith.edu.au> wrote:

> 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.

Thanks Anthony.  I had wrongly assumed that since this was Debian sid,
I'd have the latest released version, so overlooked the notice.  I was
able to create the desired output with:

convert rose: -gravity North -background Orange -splice 0x13 \
    -annotate 0 "Rose" x:

I learnt about x: along the way to avoid having my *.png file removed
from posts here.


Cheers,

-- 
Seb