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What initially appeared to be simple, turned out not to be. I have worked out the solution and will post it here so others may benefit. I realized that rather than adding a horizontal line over the top of an image, the line needed to be underneath. This is for a simple textual web mouseover button ...

So it looks like adding afterwards might be the easiest. Composite looks very simple. composite -gravity center pic1.gif pic2.gif mergedpic.gif Now I'm off to find out how ho make the stripe. Looks like I only need to create that image once. I'll post my findings here, if nobody replies in the ...

ImageMagick-6.8.3-Q16 How would I either : Add a horizontal black stripe, centered vertically, to an existing image? or Add the stripe to an image at the time of creation (I'm using convert to create) Either is fine. I figure I can create all the images and then use *.gif to add the stripe ...

That's fantastic! Thank you very much. The first solution was perfect. I ended up using -extent 495x35-3-1 and managed to place the text exactly where I needed it. This is the final code, in case it helps anyone else. With Macro Scheduler code (in case anyone else here uses it) run program ...

Hi everyone. I am using IM ImageMagick-6.8.3-Q16 CLI via Macro Scheduler to create thousands of web buttons. The following code works perfectly, except I want to move the text 4 pixels to the right, so it isn't justified up against the left edge. How would I do this, please? Without the Macro ...