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Hi there! I would like to copy an image into a new, blank image, and overwrite the overlay by the way and can´t get it to work...

Step by step what the command should do:
- create a new image width size 200x200, xc:none
- compose a source image "c:\image.png" onto image at position 10x10
- save as ...

Thanks a lot! I think that´s what I need for single line text.

The command I use for single line text is a following:

-background #666666 -fill #ffffff -font C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\test\fonts\comicbd.ttf -interword-spacing 10 -kerning 4 -pointsize 10 -gravity West -size x22 label:"Lorem dolor sit ...

Thanks for your help! The code works, it keeps the height dynamic if I use it like that:


convert -size 400x -background lightblue -fill #ffcc00 -font C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\fonts\verdana.ttf -pointsize 25 -fill black -gravity NorthWest caption:"The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog ...

Hi there! After search and try for weeks I finally decided to ask you, either if its not possible, to render text (multi- or singleline) into a new image?

So what I really want is a command, to send the following parameters:
- maxwidth
- text
- font to use (like C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\myweb\fonts\arial ...