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  1. Bug #1589580
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Comment 2 for bug 1589580

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dsitze (dsitze) wrote : Re: Text files cannot be converted to pdf

See http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?t=29754

Initial symptom is consistent w/ policy change. Comment out the line for text coder in /etc/ImageMagic-6.

The command now requires (per security update) text to be explicit:

convert text:test.txt test.pdf

However, now you'll get:
convert: ../../coders/txt.c:197: ReadTEXTImage: Assertion `exception != (ExceptionInfo *) NULL' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

As indicated in the linked discussion, this has been fixed in later versions.