Adding padding to text

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hknight
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Adding padding to text

Post by hknight »

Hello,

I would like to add 4px vertical padding and 8px horizontal padding to this:

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      convert -background lightblue -fill blue \
      -font Candice -pointsize 20 label:'Hello World' \
      label.gif
Thanks!
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anthony
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Re: Adding padding to text

Post by anthony »

Easy...

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  convert -background lightblue -fill blue \
      -font Candice -pointsize 20 label:'Hello World' \
      -bordercolor lightblue -border 8x4  label.gif
See IM examples
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/crop/#border
Anthony Thyssen -- Webmaster for ImageMagick Example Pages
https://imagemagick.org/Usage/
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