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I get this -- once again a Ghostscript invocation:


$ convert -verbose -background None watermark.svg blocky.png
"inkscape" "watermark.svg" --export-eps="/tmp/magick-3177CVIafbKtHiqA" --export-dpi="90,90" --export-background="rgb(0%,0%,0%)" --export-background-opacity="0" > "/tmp/magick ...

Well, it turns out the text objects are enough to break it -- the path isn't required. So here you go, a minimal test case.

The SVG was generated with Inkscape 0.91.


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!-- Generator: Adobe Illustrator 15.0.2, SVG Export Plug-In . SVG Version ...

The SVG file contains two text areas and two paths. One of each is set to fill black with alpha 70%, the other is filled white with the same alpha. The idea is that on a light image, the white will be visible and on a dark image, the black will be visible. It gives a drop-shadow effect on more ...

The earlier version doesn't seem to use a delegate for SVG, but the later version is converting it to EPS with Inkscape, then using Ghostscript to convert it to PNG! What a roundabout way of doing things...!

Older version:

IMG_0930.jpg JPEG 1920x1920 1920x1920+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 2.25MB 0.070u ...

I don't have 6.9.1.9 to hand, and I'm not aware of an Ubuntu PPA of it. Is it difficult to build from source, in (say) /opt/imagemagick?

I've altered the syntax of my command and it made no difference. I did have to move the "geometry" command back inside the brackets, though -- it's meant to ...

Hi,
I use Imagemagick as part of a shell script to resize and watermark photos for uploading to the Internet. This involves resizing them down to a maximum size of 1280 pixels in either direction (maintaining the aspect ratio), and stamping them with a watermark.

I've previously used the version of ...