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I was trying to reproduce the hint in

imagemagick: append a label under image with font size

This is my source image:

convert red.png -pointsize 36 label:"Test label" -gravity center -append red2.png

But instead of the expected result (label placed on bottom centered) I got this

I don't think that imagemagick has a bug. So, what am I doing wrong?

Here the version's info

convert -version

GraphicsMagick 1.4 snapshot-20181020 Q16
http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ Copyright (C) 2002-2018 GraphicsMagick
Group. Additional copyrights and licenses apply to this software. See
http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/www/Copyright.html for details.

Feature Support: Native Thread Safe yes Large Files (> 32
bit) yes Large Memory (> 32 bit) yes BZIP

yes DPS no FlashPix no

FreeType yes Ghostscript (Library) no JBIG

yes JPEG-2000 no JPEG yes

Little CMS yes Loadable Modules no OpenMP

yes (201511) PNG yes TIFF

yes TRIO no UMEM no WebP
yes WMF yes X11 yes

XML yes ZLIB yes

Host type: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

Configured using the command: ./configure '--build'
'x86_64-linux-gnu' '--enable-shared' '--enable-static'
'--enable-libtool-verbose' '--prefix=/usr'
'--mandir=${prefix}/share/man' '--infodir=${prefix}/share/info'
'--docdir=${prefix}/share/doc/graphicsmagick'
'--with-gs-font-dir=/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts' '--with-x'
'--x-includes=/usr/include/X11' '--x-libraries=/usr/lib/X11'
'--without-dps' '--without-modules' '--without-frozenpaths'
'--with-webp' '--with-perl' '--with-perl-options=INSTALLDIRS=vendor'
'--enable-quantum-library-names' '--with-quantum-depth=16'
'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2
-fdebug-prefix-map=/build/graphicsmagick-1.3.30+hg15796=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now' 'CPPFLAGS=-Wdate-time
-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' 'CXXFLAGS=-g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/graphicsmagick-1.3.30+hg15796=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security'

Final Build Parameters: CC = gcc CFLAGS = -fopenmp -g -O2
-fdebug-prefix-map=/build/graphicsmagick-1.3.30+hg15796=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall -pthread CPPFLAGS = -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -I/usr/include/X11 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libxml2 CXX = g++ CXXFLAGS = -g -O2
-fdebug-prefix-map=/build/graphicsmagick-1.3.30+hg15796=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -pthread LDFLAGS = -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -L/usr/lib/X11
-L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu LIBS = -ljbig -lwebp -lwebpmux -llcms2 -ltiff -lfreetype -ljpeg -lpng16 -lwmflite -lXext -lSM -lICE -lX11 -llzma -lbz2 -lxml2 -lz -lm -lgomp -lpthread

Thanks to Mark I was able to spot the error.

It looks like I had GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick installed in parallel and somehow they both seam to interfere each other. I really have no clue.

So I uninstalled GraphicsMagick with all dependencies (which I never used) and reinstalled ImageMagick.

Now it works as it should.

In ImageMagick, label: creates a new image. So you need to append that below your red image. To do that you should use parenthesis processing to create the label: image. It is cleaner to read that way.

convert red.png ( -background white -fill black -pointsize 36 label:"Test label" ) -gravity center -append red2.png

See https://imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#label