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Hello,

I am attempting to add a dcn to an image after it is created. Naturally, ImageMagick seems the way to go. However, there are a few problems I am having with this process.

The original image is a single page TIFF that has a white background and black text.
-After conversion, it is suddenly has a black background and white text.
-Also, it is suddenly 190x bigger than the original. The smallest I could find how to get it was with group4 compression (only 10x the original size ), but that still isn't nearly as small as the original. I'd like to get it down as close as possible to the original size (10-12k would be acceptable).

Below is a link the to zip file containing the images along with a batch file (windows) that contains the arguments as I used them. Please let me know what I can do to improve the situation. Here are those arguments:
050208010001.TIF -monochrome -gravity SouthWest -splice 0x80 -fill black -background white -font "Courier-New" -pointsize 45 -draw "text 20,20 '050208010001'" 050208010001_POST.tif

http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/6/10/ ... ge_dcn.zip

I am no expert on TIFF, except to know there are a lot of variations. But you can search these archives for similar questions and answers. For example, see

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=11374&start=0&st=0& ... hilit=tiff

fmw42 wrote:I am no expert on TIFF, except to know there are a lot of variations. But you can search these archives for similar questions and answers. For example, see

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=11374&start=0&st=0& ... hilit=tiff

I thank you for your help. Adding the argument "-define quantum:polarity=min-is-white" fixed the color inversion issue. I will do a further search and see if I can find anything on compression.