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I ran
convert -size 1024x30 xc:white -gravity south -font KacstOne -pointsize 25 -annotate 0 good good.jpg
The above font appears in list generated by "convert -list font" .
Why do I get just ? instead of letters . Numerals are fine .

manit wrote:I ran
convert -size 1024x30 xc:white -gravity south -font KacstOne -pointsize 25 -annotate 0 good good.jpg
The above font appears in list generated by "convert -list font" .
Why do I get just ? instead of letters . Numerals are fine .

remove good from your command

convert -size 1024x30 xc:white -gravity south -font KacstOne -pointsize 25 -annotate 0 good good.jpg

is KacstOne a ttf font? if not, it probably won't work

add -fill black or some color for the font

A ? in a font ouput usually means that that specific charcater is not defined in the font. Typically this happens with undefined unicode symbols, or a symbol font that has not defined all characters.

For examples of this see the Unicode DingBat example in this section of IM Examples...
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#unicode
Dingbat font was incorperated into unicode but a couple of symbols need to be mapped to different unicode characters. As such 3 question marks appear for those symbols.

As Fwm42 (fred) specified, you have not defined where "KacstOne" comes from. TTF font?

to fmw42 , Still question marks prevail. Font is ttf because
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-kacst-one/KacstOne.ttf
It is installed by default in most linux OS.
I just got curious that why it happened .
Let us say , this means I should use some other font .

You are right it is installed. My "imagick_type_gen" script automatically picked it up, and it is listed by Another script "show_fonts" with a -3 flag to display the normal ascii-meta character range shows that while all ascii charcaters are defined, only some of the meta characters are defined. Using the '-U' flag (and the script "graphics_utf" also installed) I found only a few 'punct' unicode symbols included ( EG try "show_fonts -U punct KacstOne" ), but no others (dingbats, math, numbers, etc)

It is really a very minimal basic font.

The font also does not vary much. All these looked pretty much the same to me...
KacstArt KacstBook KacstDigital KacstDecorative KacstLetter KacstOffice KacstPoster

I get it
you referred to scripts 'graphics_utf' and 'show_fonts' which I copied to /usr/bin . Then we can run the commands you mentioned. Also
ANOTHER QUESTION
I saw the file U2600.pdf (http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2600.pdf) containing miscellaneous unicode characters . I found interesting symbols which I tried to write

Running the command
env LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 printf "\u2620=death \u265e=horse "
worked as desired .

When I ran
env LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 printf "\u2620=death \u265e=horse " | convert -font AksharUnicode -background lightblue -fill blue -pointsize 36 label:@- label_quotes.gif

I got question marks at those symbols.
Is there a font which includes all unicode characters ?

This is strange even my firefox cannot show 26d5 which is "left way traffic"

You were lucky your Mac terminal font had the symbols! You could try using that!

Mincho the Microsoft unicode symbols font has them.

I have not found another font containing the symbols, though I have not tried a lot of them.


Update: another strike... DejaVu-Sans-* (*= Book, Bold, Mono-Bold ) But not the DejaVu-Serif-* fonts

In my windows XP I have arial unicode MS which is 22MB ttf file with around 50,000 characters from unicode's over 1 lakh symbols

Actually I am thinking of making a ttf file containing all unicode symbols . I find a heap of fonts on net each containing ASCII and few more with designer's liking.
Is it possible to extract all character images a ttf file contains ?

The images in a TTF font are vector images. IM is not the tool for that. You will need to look at the various TTF file format handling programs.