Add copyright symbol © to image

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janbo1982
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Add copyright symbol © to image

Post by janbo1982 »

Hello all,

how could we put © symbol into photos with xnconvert. This does not work with Arial or Verdana. It only creates ®

-rmeta -overwrite -autocrop 0 255 255 255 -ratio -rtype lanczos -rflag decr -resize 1900 900 -text_font arial 30 -text_color 0 0 255 -text_back 192 192 192 -text_flag top-left -text_pos 0 0 -text_rotation 0 -text "© company name" -o %myFile% %1

Thanks for your help!

BR
Jan
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Re: Add copyright symbol © to image

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janbo1982 wrote: Thu Mar 12, 2020 12:36 pm how could we put © symbol into photos with xnconvert. This does not work with Arial or Verdana. It only creates ®

-rmeta -overwrite -autocrop 0 255 255 255 -ratio -rtype lanczos -rflag decr -resize 1900 900 -text_font arial 30 -text_color 0 0 255 -text_back 192 192 192 -text_flag top-left -text_pos 0 0 -text_rotation 0 -text "© company name" -o %myFile% %1
© company name works for me in XnConvert [the GUI software], I haven't tested in NConvert [the command line application]...

Possibly a bug in NConvert, or some kind of localisation issue, if that could be possible??

Could you test with XnConvert?
janbo1982
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Re: Add text symbol © to image

Post by janbo1982 »

Thanks for your prompt answer, cday!

It works with XNconvert GUI Software. Our programmer is using Nconvert command line application.

It makes from "©" this "-®"?
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Re: Add copyright symbol © to image

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For me, using XnConvert, the © symbol is written correctly...

I may, reluctantly, boot into Windows so that I can test in NConvert... :wink:
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Re: Add copyright symbol © to image

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I have now tested your NConvert code in Windows and can confirm that © is also written incorrectly in my test... :(

I don't know whether this is a bug in NConvert, or could be due to some technical issue related to code pages or whatever...
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Re: Add copyright symbol © to image

Post by cday »

I can now confirm that many text symbols entered in my Windows Notepad-created code reproduce incorrectly when the code is run at the Windows command line.

This is really not my subject, but it looks like a coding issue possibly introduced by Windows cmd.exe and NConvert reading code using different coding, so that when a code value is different an incorrect symbol is displayed.

Could someone please confirm that, or correct any details, and suggest a simple way of creating code that reproduces text symbols correctly when the code is run in NConvert :?: