Montage without resize - is this possible in ImageMagick

[jsavage]

I have a large number of images of different shapes and sizes. I want to combine /montage these efficiently but not necessarily aestetically but the images must not be re-sized during the process. I have checked the documentation but may have missed something so before discarding ImageMagick as a possible tool for this:

1. Does anyone know whether it is possible to montage without resizing?
2. If not, does anyone have any suggestions for a tool that may allow this?

Thanks all,

James

[fmw42]

As far as I know there is no reason that montage would be resizing your images unless 1) you are not using -geometry correctly or 2) your images have virtual canvases. You can add +repage to remove virtual canvases.

What IM release are you using?

What is an example of your command line?

The other approach is to to use convert ... -compose ... -composite (or -flatten or composite). There are alternates to montage. The advantage of montage is its ability to label the images. Otherwise the other methods work well for random positioning. You can also use append if you want images combined sequentially in one direction (horizontally or vertically).

see

http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/montage/
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/layers/