gifify: Error: convert needs fontconfig

Hey there.

I’m trying to convert using the following command:

gifify tide\ 1_.mov -o tide_backend.gif --resize '900:-1' 

however I get the following error without anything else:

convert needs fontconfig

Any help please? Cheers

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  • State: open
  • Created 9 years ago
  • Comments: 16 (3 by maintainers)

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uninnstallinng imagemagi ck and reinstallingn with the flag did not fix this issue.

I had this issue, but in my case I had MAMP on my machine which included Imagemagick with different settings. It defaulted to MAMP’s version of the library without fontconfig because I had MAMP’s bin folder in $PATH before /usr/local in .zshrc. So, check your settings if you are experiencing this issue.

I got this too - even when I had all the dependencies installed.

I just opened the file and removed the need for these deps because I don’t need captions

https://github.com/vvo/gifify/blob/master/bin/gifify#L92-L93