Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

THANK YOU very much, such a simple solution that I overlooked.
My script is working great and I am adding it to my workflow.
THANK YOU for all of the help.

Thank you again for all of the help and suggestions. I am using version 7.0.5-4 but still could not get the \n to work, maybe I was putting it in the wrong place? Here is my code as it stands and all is good except that the caption overwrites part of the photo. If I could figure out how to insert a ...

Thank you again for all of the help from everybody. Here is the final code with only one little issue. I wish that I could put a blank line before the text so I could crop the text off later if I wanted. The way it is now, some of the text overlays the photo. read cw cf cdesc <<< $( identify -format ...

Here is some clarification. I am trying to write a script to run after I scan each image and put the meta-data into THOUSANDS of photos I am scanning. When I right click on an image, and select Annotate, it runs my script Annotate with the filename as the parameter. Here is my script that I ...

Thank you very much for the suggestions. The CAPTION is working as advertised, however, now, I am having trouble with the parameters. I have tried many variation and cannot get the $cdesc and $cw or any of the other parameters to work. Any suggestion on being able to pass these parameters to Size ...

I tried with a couple of my images and I receive the following: ./annotate: line 8: syntax error near unexpected token `(' ./annotate: line 8: `convert "input.jpg" ( -clone 0 -size %[fx:w]x%[fx:h] -delete 0 -background black -gravity center -pointsize 20 -fill White caption:"This is a very very long ...

Thank you for the suggestions. I have changed my code to read as follows: convert "input.jpg" ( -clone 0 -size %[fx:w]x%[fx:h] -delete 0 -background black -gravity center -pointsize 20 -fill White caption:"This is a very very long line and I will repeat some more blurb to make it a bit longer and ...

I am currently using 6.7.7 on Linux Ubuntu, I will look into updating.
What suggestions do you have if I switch to Ver 7?

I am a genealogist and have thousands of photos that I want to annotate and update at any given time. I want to maintain the integrity of the original photos, so I am splicing an annotation area to the bottom, so if I need to update the annotation, I can simply trim off the old and add another. The ...

I am using ImageMagick 6.7.7-10 on Linux Mint 17 to annotate many 1000s of genealogy photographs. I have developed the following script, but it still has a bunch of problems that I am hoping someone can help with. cwidth=`identify -format "%[fx:w]" $1`; cheight=`identify -format "%[fx:h/20]" $1 ...

Thank you for the suggestions and directions to look. I have modified my script and gotten the results I wanted, so I thought I would post the semi-final result. I use this script within FotoXX after I modify the original photo and add the metadata including the date and description. If I ever need ...

I am a genealogist with thousands of pictures that I need to annotate/label. I have read most of the documentation and scoured the web, but I cannot figure this out. I want to annotate each image with a text that is a combination of the DATE and the DESCRIPTION from the metadata. The code that I am ...