We now have a very strict imagemagick policy - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/286676/2/modules/imagemagick/files/policy.xml that limits the scripting language. I presume that the "label:" and "caption:" we used are part of that. It was suggested that we switch to gd: http://bavotasan.com/2009/turn-text-into-an-image-using-the-php-gd-library/ ... I cannot recall why we went with imagemagick and not gd for these banners

@Yurik I took a look and this is a little beyond me. I have no idea what's going on in createImageBanner. Can you investigate the issue? Happy to merge and SWAT.

@Jdlrobson, i will have to implement this feature anew - because imagemagick is basically no longer available :(

Ok, I remembered why we used IM instead of GD - multiline text. @csteipp, can we quickly approve https://github.com/stil/gd-text -- seems like exactly the lib we need to switch away from imagemagick-generated multiline text images.

In T134774#2282491, @Yurik wrote:

Ok, I remembered why we used IM instead of GD - multiline text. @csteipp, can we quickly approve https://github.com/stil/gd-text -- seems like exactly the lib we need to switch away from imagemagick-generated multiline text images.

(from irc)

@Yurik: It looks ok enough to include in a Zero extension. I don't feel like I have the time to look at enough for inclusion in vendors/

Change 288236 had a related patch set uploaded (by Yurik):
Use gd instead of imagemagick for legaly img banners

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/288236

Change 288233 had a related patch set uploaded (by Yurik):
Added stil/gd-text lib

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/288233

Change 288233 merged by jenkins-bot:
Added stil/gd-text lib

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/288233

Change 288236 merged by jenkins-bot:
Use gd instead of imagemagick for legaly img banners

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/288236