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I have a headless VPS with Arch Linux. I try to render text on to some images with command mogrify and option "label":

mogrify -path ./splice -verbose  -filter Lanczos -resize 320x240 -fill blue -font /usr/share/fonts/TTF/FreeMono.ttf label:text -splice 1x1 -format bmp image.jpg

, but all I get are error messages:

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mogrify: no encode delegate for this image format `LABEL' @ error/constitute.c/WriteImage/1166.

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mogrify: unable to read font `(null)' @ error/annotate.c/RenderFreetype/1127.

I think the issue is your use of label:. I get the same error using label:. However, it works fine for me if I use -annotate or -draw. IM 6.8.9.7 Q16 Mac OSX

label: and caption: are typically for creating a new image (using -size) of text and not for adding text to an existing image.

see
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/

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