exec w. imagemagick gives incomplete result

[Morten]

Hi. Trying to generate some images with imagemagick. The following
works on
the command line:

/usr/local/bin/convert xc:yellow -resize 100x15! -gravity "West" -draw
"text 0,0 'Path Two'"
/Users/morten/Sites/cebra/images/a1a2e65dce30f01861c60d0acb5287c7.jpg

But when running via PHP exec, the yellow box gets created alright,
but the text doesn't
show.

exec($CONVERT." -font helvetica xc:yellow -resize 100x15! -gravity
\"West\" -draw \"text 0,0 \'".$text."\'\" ".$file, $out, $err);

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Morten

[Pedro Graca]

Morten wrote:

But when running via PHP exec, the yellow box gets created alright,
but the text doesn't show. exec($CONVERT." -font helvetica xc:yellow -resize 100x15! -gravity
\"West\" -draw \"text 0,0 \'".$text."\'\" ".$file, $out, $err); Any suggestions?

Try echo instead of exec

echo $CONVERT." -font helvetica xc:yellow -resize 100x15! -gravity
\"West\" -draw \"text 0,0 \'".$text."\'\" ".$file;
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[Morten]

Pedro Graca <he****@hotpop.com> wrote in message news:<br************@ID-203069.news.uni-berlin.de>...

Morten wrote:

But when running via PHP exec, the yellow box gets created alright,
but the text doesn't show.

exec($CONVERT." -font helvetica xc:yellow -resize 100x15! -gravity
\"West\" -draw \"text 0,0 \'".$text."\'\" ".$file, $out, $err);

Any suggestions?

Try echo instead of exec

echo $CONVERT." -font helvetica xc:yellow -resize 100x15! -gravity
\"West\" -draw \"text 0,0 \'".$text."\'\" ".$file;

And pasting the result of echo into a term works. I've found that this is
highly likely to be due to imagemagick convert invokes another executable
which is in /usr/local/bin and this path is not part of the PATH visible
to PHP (according to phpinfo()). How do I add it?

Thanks,

Morten