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Imagemagick CLI mode doesn't work with Lua 5.5 and image magic #358

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@wtsiamruk

to reproduce,

Open README.md of https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-petclinic

Observe an error

Lua callback:                                                                                                                                               
...nvim/lazy/image.nvim/lua/image/processors/magick_cli.lua:76: magick: unable to read font `' @ error/annotate.c/RenderFreetype/1660.                      
                                                                                                                                                            
stack traceback:                                                                                                                                            
        [C]: in function 'error'                                                                                                                            
        ...nvim/lazy/image.nvim/lua/image/processors/magick_cli.lua:76: in function <...nvim/lazy/image.nvim/lua/image/processors/magick_cli.lua:75>        
        [C]: in function 'wait'                                                                                                                             
        ...nvim/lazy/image.nvim/lua/image/processors/magick_cli.lua:85: in function 'convert_to_png'                                                        
        ...er/.local/share/nvim/lazy/image.nvim/lua/image/image.lua:326: in function <...er/.local/share/nvim/lazy/image.nvim/lua/image/image.lua:241>      
        [C]: in function 'pcall'                                                                                                                            
        ...er/.local/share/nvim/lazy/image.nvim/lua/image/image.lua:410: in function ''                                                                     
        vim/_core/editor.lua: in function <vim/_core/editor.lua:0>    

with the image.nvim config done via lazy with a following config:

local plugin = {
    "3rd/image.nvim",
    build = false, -- so that it doesn't build the rock https://github.com/3rd/image.nvim/issues/91#issuecomment-2453430239
    tag = "v1.5.1",
    opts = {
        processor = "magick_cli",
    }
}

return plugin

the versions:

➜  nvim-config git:(main) ✗ nvim --version
NVIM v0.12.1
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.1.1774896198
Run "nvim -V1 -v" for more info
➜  nvim-config git:(main) ✗ magick --version
Version: ImageMagick 7.1.2-19 Q16-HDRI aarch64 23897 https://imagemagick.org
Copyright: (C) 1999 ImageMagick Studio LLC
License: https://imagemagick.org/license/
Features: Cipher DPC HDRI Modules 
Delegates (built-in): bzlib freetype heic jng jpeg lcms ltdl lzma png tiff webp xml zlib zstd
Compiler: clang (21.0.0)
➜  nvim-config git:(main) ✗ lua -v
Lua 5.5.0  Copyright (C) 1994-2025 Lua.org, PUC-Rio

I'm on a MacBook with m3 processor.

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