How to fix error with fonts "magick: unable to read font"?

[gerkas]

ImageMagick version

7.1.1-25

Operating system, version and so on

WSL Debian

Description

Hi, I'm trying to write some text but I getting this error:

$ magick -background lightblue -fill blue -font arial -pointsize 72 label:Anthony label.gif

magick: unable to read font arial @ warning/annotate.c/RenderType/1024.
magick: unable to read font arial @ error/annotate.c/RenderFreetype/1654.

The commands below doesn´t list anything.

$ convert -list font
$ identify -list font
$

And this others prints

$ ls /usr/local/share/fonts/
$ ls /etc/fonts
conf.avail  conf.d  fonts.conf

Current IM version. Thanks for any help.

$ magick -version
Version: ImageMagick 7.1.1-25 Q16-HDRI x86_64 21883 https://imagemagick.org
Copyright: (C) 1999 ImageMagick Studio LLC
License: https://imagemagick.org/script/license.php
Features: Cipher DPC HDRI OpenMP(4.5)
Delegates (built-in): fftw freetype jbig jng jpeg lcms lzma png tiff webp xml zlib zstd
Compiler: gcc (12.2)

[dlemstra]

It looks like your version of ImageMagick is build without fontconfig support?

[gerkas]

It could be. I installed latest version since it happens the same with 7.1.1-24. How can I fix this issue?

[anko20094]

The same issue. Did you fix it?

[GeeMack]

If ImageMagick is unable to find an installed font, you can still use it in a command by using its path and filename: ... -font "path\to\font\arial.tff" ...

[fmw42]

What do you get from

magick -list font

If you want to include all your fonts on your system, see the script https://imagemagick.org/Usage/scripts/imagick_type_gen