Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

try +distort rather than -distort, then it won't be cropped. Sorry, I forgot about that. yes ! that's it ! thank you !! [w ow, that one character makes all the difference in the world... ] ... just to get the text to pivot correctly around the selected point ? I don't understand what you mean by ...

thanks for replying, fmw42. that doesn't seem to be quite it, either. what it looks like is happening is the overlay image is being rotated/translated within an invisible bounding box of the same dimensions as its unrotated image, so while the overlay is definitely being rotated, its edges are ...

i want to composite a graphic image composed of text on a background, rotated by an arbitrary amount. the origin of rotation, and therefore the placement point on the background, must always be located at the upper left corner of the unrotated textual image, regardless of the angle or rotation. i've ...

hello, i've developed an application using imagick that resizes and resamples large images. unfortunately, due to the way imagick works, resizing and/or resampling creates huuuuge work files in /tmp that crash the system because /tmp actually fills up. i'm not sure if these are scratch files or ...

anybody??

it turns out the problem is being caused by resampleImage(). when attempting to resample images of a couple of megabytes at, e.g., 96dpi to 300dpi, it eats up all of the system's available memory, drives kswapd crazy, and eventually leaves a huge working file in /tmp, filling it up. the routine that ...

hi all, i'm new to imagick, got a big problem. one of the imagick routines seems to run amok, generating a huuuuuge temp file, and i have no idea why. here's an example of what's happening- $ cd /tmp $ ls -l magick-XXnifrbY -rw------- 1 apache apache 70778880000 Apr 11 01:22 magick-XXnifrbY i've ...