Mogrify not working on new PC

[Newmarket2]

Running LR2 on a new 64 bit Windows 7 machine.
Trying to add TEXT ANNOTATIONS using Mogrify.
No error messages or error log, but no text on the output jpg.

Can anyone help?

 

[Denis Pagé]

Try another font first and check that you do not inadvertently write white on white for example.

 

[Newmarket2]

Tried helvetica; using black font on grey background with opacity in the 6'-7'% and there is no evidence of anything on the image.

 

[Denis Pagé]

: Font too big? Too small?

 

[Victoria Bampton]

Or try adding a border or something like that, to make sure Mogrify's working correctly.

 

[Newmarket2]

No border either.
Re font- started w 24 point, which should have worked, but didn't; then, tried 5% and that didn't work either

 

[Victoria Bampton]

If the border's not working either, I'd assume there's a problem with Mogrify. Which ImageMagick version did you install?

 

[Newmarket2]

This is the name of installation file. I think the version is 1.'', which sounds pretty old.

 

[Victoria Bampton]

FWIW, I did a W7 64-bit install today, and used the ImageMagick-6.5.8-4-Q16-windows-dll.exe, and LR2/Mogrify's working fine on that one.

 

[Newmarket2]

oops - forgot to embed the installation file....seems to be older; and what does the "static" mean?

ImageMagick-6.5.5-4-Q16-windows-static

 

[Victoria Bampton]

Not a clue, but try the one I just posted, on the offchance that it works better!

 

[Newmarket2]

can you point me to the specific download location for this version?

 

[Newmarket2]

Uninstalled Imagemagick; installed ImageMagick-6.5.8-4-Q16-windows-dll.exe; reloaded it; ran to completion but still nothing in the output image!

 

[Newmarket2]

Solved. Not all fonts listed in the pull-down work with Imagemagick. But, TrueType fonts all work. So I found a list of TTFs and found one I liked and it worked.

 

[Victoria Bampton]

Oh, nice to know ALL TrueType's work, thanks Michael. Don't suppose you'd care to post the link to those TTF's in case anyone else can make use of it?

 

[Newmarket2]

True type font list

I don't know where I found the list of true type fonts, but I did save it and have tried to attach it here...having never attached something before - hope it works.....

 

[Victoria Bampton]

Thanks Michael