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by Abigail (26)

That works until you have a file whose name ends with a space. Another way:
(mkdir X; cd X; convert -background "#ffffff" -fill "#000000" -font Helvetica -pointsize 14 -size 400x caption:"*" ../your-file.png; cd ..; rmdir X)

This uses the fact that in an empty directory, a globbed '*' is just a '*'.
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  by barbie (2653) <reversethis-{ku. ... m} {ta} {eibrab}> on 2009.10.01 7:18 (#70737) Homepage Journal
  
  Except I'd rather not have odd directories being created, especially if anything goes wrong. Plus it seems a lot more work than the "magic" space :)
  
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