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I don't know enough about PDF/PS formats myself but if I am correct in assuming that gLabels creates the print output (PDF) by embedding the image only once, then this will always give me a smaller file. I am no expert, but I do not see how it could do that. I was wrong in assuming that gLabels ...

I first created the label sheet as PNG, then converted this to PDF. If I go straight to PDF, the file size is double as big. I don't know enough about PDF/PS formats myself but if I am correct in assuming that gLabels creates the print output (PDF) by embedding the image only once, then this will ...

Fred, thank you for your help with this. A small correction: convert - -trim +repage -resize 2480x3508 -background white -extent 2480x3508 -density 300 result.png 595x842 are the correct values at 72dpi (i.e. for -density 72). If you want to print an A4 sheet at 300dpi, you need to create a picture ...

Before I tried anything complicated, I played around with the -page option, but I didn't get to grips with it. Here I simply tried to create an A4 PDF file with one image on it: convert label.png -page a4 page.pdf When I open the file with gv , a page size of y673x476 is displayed, not y842x595 ...

Here's an image to be printed on each label:


The label sheet specification: 21 labels per A4 sheet

I'd like a print quality of 300dpi.

I am using ImageMagick 6.7.7-10 on Debian Linux.

The intended output is a PDF file suitable to print a 7x3 A4 label sheet. The labels are rectangular with rounded edges.

The starting point is a PNG image for ONE label.
This image needs to be tiled (7x3) with the appropriate page margins.

I would like to create a sheet of labels from an image and output it to PDF.

It's easy enough to do with gLabels but I'd be quite keen to create the sheet automagically with ImageMagick. Precise positioning is obviously very important.

Is this a sensible idea? Any views would be welcome.

Just returned from a holiday and saw your link. Thanks for that, Anthony.

Fred, thanks for confirming that the mask -compose approach is the way forward, which is what I did last night. Anthony, these seem to be endless ways to skin the cat but in my particular case -morphology edge produced good results. I must say it's damned handy youse two being in different timezones ...

Thanks Anthony; that's useful to know.

edgeout after some playing around with the kernels did it for me!

screen only seems useful if you want white text (as per the manual example)?

I have a mask, a background and a foreground image combining them with -compose.
I would like to draw an edge where the black and the white of the mask meet, similar to this example from the manual:'

sorted:

I have created a tile image and, in a separate step, I create a tiled canvas: I would like to do this in a oner. How?

Many thanks.