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In fact - a simpler example is this one http://www.pragmaticea.com/PF2/components/images/o000483.png produced by magick <INFILE> -size 701x%[fx:h] -background None -fill #FFFFFF -gravity center caption:"Pragmatic EA is a non-profit research company. Pragmatic EC is a consulting company." ( +clone ...

Please see This command magick <INFILE> -size 701x%[fx:h] -background None -fill #FFFFFF -gravity center caption:"Pragmatic EA is a non-profit research company. Pragmatic EC is a consulting company." ( +clone -sparse-color bilinear "0,0,#285EA6,%[fx:w-1],%[fx:h-1],#5E28A6" ) ( -clone 1,2 -compose ...

ahhh - swap!

By jove, I do believe he's getting it!

ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

-append move it to the left but i expect -gravity North to make it go to the top - but it doesnt....

I have got the individual commands doing what I want. I basically copied the first command (that adds a box to the right with text in it) and changed it sucessfuly to create another box ofd he correct size with text in it. My problem is, I don't know how to get that long box to be positioned above ...

I have two commands. The first one does what its supposed to do - put a box to the right of the image whose height is equal to the height of the input image with a width of 1131 pixels and fill it with some text. input: http://pragmaticea.com/pragmatic/components/images/000477.png Output: http ...

Coll - many thanks. Its really a programming environment in its own right. Could be useful to have an IDE that churns out the code required.

True.

One last question to finish this post - Can I change the blue background to a diagonal gradient fill from dark blue to lighter blue? I've looked through the docs and found https://imagemagick.org/script/gradient.php but not sure how to apply that to my blue box

Yes I figured out what it was doing while I was writing that, which, as you say, is reasonable.

Maybe an enhacement request then - for IM to split words and insert a hyphen to break words so it can maximise the text size within an area?

I'm not griping though I already donated $50 to them.

Thanks - that did the trick - i did send this message yesterday but I just came here to post another comment and my comment thanking you from yesterday is not here!!! (second time that happened) Anyway, Everything looks fine apart from a couple of things that are not quite right in relation to the ...

Aha - bingo - Now I understand as %1 etc is using on BAT scripts for parameter passing. I remove the double % and its fine now.
Many many thanks.

Hmm thanks for that, I copied and pasted the command and I get
As you say my input image is 888 wide and so i need magick to add 200 pixels to the right as you show in your image.

Many many thanks for continuing to help me. Just came back to check - only to find my post with links to the input and output images is not here! Just one of those days!... input http://peaf.com/images/testing2.png output http://peaf.com/images/out.png command executed magick ^ testing2.png ^ -size ...

I have looked in the docs https://www.imagemagick.org/script/comm ... s.php#size to understand what

-size 200x%%[fx:h

does, but it doesn't explain the %% or the parameters in square brackets...

yes, windows 10 bat - sorry i missed that question

The last cmd you sent does adds 47 pixels to the righ of my input image, and does not scale the text to fit...