Text to Image, keep getting error "no images defined"

Question

for testing purposes, i am using imagemagick (the most actual portable windows version) to get a text to an image. so i type the following:

convert -font Arial -pointsize 22 -fill black -draw "text 0,0 'TESTTEXT'" test.jpg

but i keep getting this error:

convert.exe: no images defined `test.jpg' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3127.

Can someone tell me why?

Greetings

Answer 1

Try adding a canvas and specifying a size with -size 200x100 xc:#ff0000

convert -size 200x100 xc:#ff0000 \
    -font Arial -pointsize 22 \
    -fill black -gravity center \
    -draw "text 0,0 'TESTTEXT'" test.jpg

PS I also added -gravity center to center the text inside output image

Answer 2

I experienced this problem because I had both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of ImageMagick installed on my system. Removing the latter solved it.