convert -draw "text ..." results in Bus Error

[bclee@…]

$ convert -draw "text 100,100 'ABC'" foo.jpg foo2.jpg Bus error

This works fine on my G4 OS X 10.4.8 iBook, but fails as above on my Intel 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo Mini with the same OS and MacPorts 1.3.1. I've installed Imagemagick and ghostscript (needed for the -draw text option) on both. The versions of ImageMagick differ (I installed this on the G4 several weeks ago) but the version of ghostscript is the same. The G4 does seem to have additional text related packages installed, maybe the dependencies for ImageMagick changed?

mini (where I get a bus error):

The following ports are currently installed:
  bzip2 @1.0.3_0 (active)
  freetype @2.1.10_1 (active)
  ghostscript @8.54_0 (active)
  ImageMagick @6.2.9-8_0+darwin_8 (active)
  jpeg @6b_1 (active)
  libiconv @1.11_0+darwin_8 (active)
  libpng @1.2.10_2+darwin_8 (active)
  libxml2 @2.6.23_0 (active)
  photopc @3.05_0 (active)
  tiff @3.8.2_0+darwin_8 (active)
  zlib @1.2.3_0 (active)

iBook (where it works):

The following ports are currently installed:
  atk @1.11.4_0 (active)
  bzip2 @1.0.3_0 (active)
  cairo @1.0.4_0 (active)
  expat @2.0.0_1 (active)
  fontconfig @2.3.2_2+macosx (active)
  freetype @2.1.10_1 (active)
  gettext @0.14.6_0 (active)
  ghostscript @8.54_0 (active)
  glib2 @2.12.0_1 (active)
  gqview @2.0.1_0 (active)
  gtk2 @2.8.19_0+darwin_8 (active)
  ImageMagick @6.2.7-5_0+darwin_8 (active)
  jpeg @6b_1 (active)
  libiconv @1.10_1+darwin_8 (active)
  libpixman @0.1.6_0 (active)
  libpng @1.2.10_2+darwin_8 (active)
  libxml2 @2.6.23_0 (active)
  pango @1.12.3_0 (active)
  photopc @3.05_0 (active)
  pkgconfig @0.20_0 (active)
  render @0.9_0 (active)
  tiff @3.8.2_0+darwin_8 (active)
  Xft2 @2.1.7_0 (active)
  xrender @0.9.0_0+darwin_8 (active)
  zlib @1.2.3_0 (active)

I'm new to MacPorts, so just let me know if there is additional information that would be useful (and how to find it!). Thanks.

[bclee@…]

That first line should be:

$ convert -draw "text 100,100 'ABC'" foo.jpg foo2.jpg 
Bus error

[bclee@…]

Using +gs when I install imagemagick seems to solve the problem, it installs an older version of ghostscript and a few other packages. Here I've started over from scratch and only installed photopc and imagemagick:

$ port installed
The following ports are currently installed:
  bzip2 @1.0.3_0 (active)
  expat @2.0.0_1 (active)
  freetype @2.1.10_1 (active)
  gettext @0.15_0 (active)
  glib1 @1.2.10_5 (active)
  gplghostscript @8.50_0 (active)
  gtk1 @1.2.10_6 (active)
  ImageMagick @6.2.9-8_0+darwin_8+gs (active)
  jpeg @6b_1 (active)
  libiconv @1.11_0+darwin_8 (active)
  libpng @1.2.10_2+darwin_8 (active)
  libxml2 @2.6.23_0 (active)
  photopc @3.05_0 (active)
  pkgconfig @0.21_0 (active)
  tiff @3.8.2_0+darwin_8 (active)
  zlib @1.2.3_0 (active)

I seem to recall that the older version gave a more informative error until I installed ghostscript.

[markd@…]

Imagemagick is now at 6.3.0. Same behavior? The summary line should begin with BUG: imagemagick-version so people don't need to read the whole ticket to know what is inside.

[markd@…]

Is this problem resolved in the current version of imagemagick and dependencies?

[kballard (Lily Ballard)]

This sounds like a bug upstream

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