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Hi Magick Folks

I was wondering if it's possible to optimize the following convert and composite code ?

I've added 3 sample lines below of what i have. I have a huge file of words to convert and composite to a custom background canvas.

Everything is the same except the Labels.

( I copied this code from somewhere on this forum and modified it slightly to meet my needs. )

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convert -size 100x100 -background white -font arial.ttf -fill black label:"Australia" -trim +repage -depth 8 australia.jpg && composite -gravity center  australia.jpg  canvas.png  australia.jpg
convert -size 100x100 -background white -font 1/arial.ttf -fill black label:"Fiji" -trim +repage -depth 8 fiji.jpg && composite -gravity center  fiji.jpg  canvas.png  fiji.jpg
convert -size 100x100 -background white -font 1/arial.ttf -fill black label:"Tonga" -trim +repage -depth 8 tonga.jpg && composite -gravity center  tonga.jpg  canvas.png  tonga.jpg

I'm a total noob with this so any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time!

Use one convert command with multiple parenthesis processing to crate the various label: images and multiple composites.

See
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/basics/#parenthesis
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/layers/#convert

Please always provide your IM version and platform, since syntax differs. See also viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9620

If your under windows something like this in a batch file works well also.

for /F "tokens=*" %%A in (wordlist.txt) do call :process %%A
goto thenextstep
:process
set VAR1=%1
convert -size 100x100 -background white -font arial.ttf -fill black label:"%VAR1%" -trim +repage -depth 8 %VAR1%.jpg
composite -gravity center %VAR1%.jpg canvas.png %VAR1%.jpg
pause
goto :EOF

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The wordlist.txt is where you can store your list of words I usually use this trick when I want to test a font on it's kerning.

fmw42 wrote: Please always provide your IM version and platform, since syntax differs. See also viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9620

Sorry i totally forgot about noting it.

Version: ImageMagick 6.7.7-10 2014-03-06 Q16 on Linux Ubuntu

I check those links out. Cheers

PandoraBox wrote:If your under windows something like this in a batch file works well also.

for /F "tokens=*" %%A in (wordlist.txt) do call :process %%A
goto thenextstep
:process
set VAR1=%1
convert -size 100x100 -background white -font arial.ttf -fill black label:"%VAR1%" -trim +repage -depth 8 %VAR1%.jpg
composite -gravity center %VAR1%.jpg canvas.png %VAR1%.jpg
pause
goto :EOF

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The wordlist.txt is where you can store your list of words I usually use this trick when I want to test a font on it's kerning.

I'm actually using ImageMagick 6.7.7-10 on Linux Ubuntu and will give this a shot! ( Sorry i forgot to mention my version earlier ).

Thank you!

That code is for Windows and won't work on Unix.

In Unix syntax, try

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cd directory_containing_wordfile.txt
wordlist=`cat wordfile.txt`
for word in $wordlist; do
convert  canvas.jpg \
\( -size 100x100 -background white -font arial.ttf \
-fill black label:"$word" -trim +repage -depth 8 \) \
-gravity center -composite $word.jpg
done

fmw42 wrote:That code is for Windows and won't work on Unix.

In Unix syntax, try

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cd directory_containing_wordfile.txt
wordlist=`cat wordfile.txt`
for word in $wordlist; do
convert  canvas.jpg \
\( -size 100x100 -background white -font arial.ttf \
-fill black label:"$word" -trim +repage -depth 8 \) \
-gravity center -composite $word.jpg
done

Yay! It works perfect

I was tinkering with the windows code PandoraBox gave, and i was pretty hopeless with my attempts to make it work.

Thank you Fred. Couldn't get my stuff done without the immense help from you folks over here. Appreciated very much always! Please have a great weekend and Cheers

Thanks fred, but like you say always if people post the version and operating system saves a huge amount of work however I can't complain when I see a comparison code for different platforms..

Thanks again.

fmw42 wrote:That code is for Windows and won't work on Unix.

In Unix syntax, try

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cd directory_containing_wordfile.txt
wordlist=`cat wordfile.txt`
for word in $wordlist; do
convert  canvas.jpg \
\( -size 100x100 -background white -font arial.ttf \
-fill black label:"$word" -trim +repage -depth 8 \) \
-gravity center -composite $word.jpg
done

Slight alternative for the shell script loop reading full lines from a file (with spaces)
One line per processing loop.

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while read line; do
   ...
done < file.txt

anthony wrote:
fmw42 wrote: Slight alternative for the shell script loop reading full lines from a file (with spaces)
One line per processing loop.
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while read line; do
   ...
done < file.txt

Thanks a lot Anthony. This is perfect for processing full lines, something i plan on doing later on.

Also to Fred and PandoraBox. This was all very helpful and i appreciate everyone's time.

Thanks very much

anthony wrote: ↑2015-12-08T16:45:38-07:00

Slight alternative for the shell script loop reading full lines from a file (with spaces)
One line per processing loop.
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while read line; do
   ...
done < file.txt

Hello there!

I was hoping someone could please help me. For the life of me, i am unable to get this shell script loop reading full lines to work on my end.

The following code is working perfectly for single words.

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cd directory_containing_wordfile.txt
wordlist=`cat wordfile.txt`
for word in $wordlist; do
convert  canvas.jpg \
\( -size 100x100 -background white -font arial.ttf \
-fill black label:"$word" -trim +repage -depth 8 \) \
-gravity center -composite $word.jpg
done

But i am unable to generate images with full lines and spaces. This is what i have tried below. Could anyone please let me know what i am doing wrong? Thank you

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cd directory_containing_wordfile.txt
wordlist=`cat wordfile.txt`
while read line; do
convert  canvas.jpg \
\( -size 100x100 -background white -font arial.ttf \
-fill black label:"$word" -trim +repage -depth 8 \) \
-gravity center -composite $word.jpg
done < wordfile.txt

The question is about bash scripting, not IM. The same problem would occur if you had "echo" instead of "convert".

This works:

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cat wordfile.txt | \
while read word; do
  echo $word
done

Getting full lines and spaces requires careful quoting. You need to read, not concatenate into a work list. Note the use of "$line" in the loop..

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while read line; do
    convert  canvas.jpg \
               \( -size 100x100 -background white -font arial.ttf \
                  -fill black label:"$line" -trim +repage -depth 8 \) \
              -gravity center -composite "$line".jpg
done < wordfile.txt

Your mistake was you used "$word" when you were reading "$line".

NOTE: this will also create filenames with spaces, and punctuation. And while computers can handle such filenames, they make it harder to deal with later. I suggest the following...

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while read filename line; do
    convert  canvas.jpg \
               \( -size 100x100 -background white -font arial.ttf \
                  -fill black label:"$line" -trim +repage -depth 8 \) \
              -gravity center -composite "$filename".jpg
done < wordfile.txt

With a "wordfile.txt" containg the simple filename to use, then the line that file will contain..

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anthony wrote: ↑2015-12-08T16:45:38-07:00
fmw42 wrote:That code is for Windows and won't work on Unix.

In Unix syntax, try
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cd directory_containing_wordfile.txt
wordlist=`cat wordfile.txt`
for word in $wordlist; do
convert  canvas.jpg \
$ -size 100x100 -background white -font arial.ttf \
-fill black label:"$word" -trim +repage -depth 8 $ \
-gravity center -composite $word.jpg
done
Slight alternative for the shell script loop reading full lines from a file (with spaces)
One line per processing loop.
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while read line; do
   ...
done < file.txt

For is bad option for read lines from file.
While is better
but
This is safer option

while IFS= read -r line || [ -n "$line" ]; do
echo "$line"
done <file

The -r option to read prevents backslash interpretation (usually used as a backslash newline pair, to continue over multiple lines or to escape the delimiters). Without this option, any unescaped backslashes in the input will be discarded. You should almost always use the -r option with read.

And || [ -n "$line" ] to make it work with files without a newline at end.If there is such file shell does not read last line from the file.

To preserve white space at the beginning or the end of a line, specify IFS= (with no value) immediately before the read command. After reading is completed, the IFS returns to its previous value in shell variable.

Thank you all for the suggestions. It was very helpful. Cheers

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