Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

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

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

Hi Snibgo,

Thank you so much. It was just what i needed and worked perfectly. Cheers

Hi all !

I'm using the following wood texture background and code to generate the image below.

I was wondering how to make the white rounded square background Semi-transparent so a bit of the wood texture shows through it?

I have the text fully transparent and would also like the white background ...

Yeah, my fault, sorry. For bash, use forward slash "/" as directory separator. And use "mkdir" to create a directory:

mkdir newdir

for VAR in $(ls z*.jpg)
do
echo $VAR

composite -gravity center -geometry -0+5 $VAR back.jpg newdir/$VAR
done



Hi snibgo : )

Wow Thank you so much!

It ...

You could put it in a for loop, for example:

md newdir

for VAR in $(ls *.jpg)
do
echo $VAR

composite -gravity center -geometry -0+5 $VAR back.jpg newdir\$VAR
done



Hi snibgo,

Thank you very much! I tried what you mentioned. I put your code in a .sh file ( composite.sh ) and ran "sh ...

Hi folks!

I've searched the forums and tried several methods but i am unable to get what i need to work.

Basically i have several hundred images which i would like composited onto a single common background.

Common background image:
https://image.ibb.co/nD3BdT/back.jpg

Sample Image:
https ...

Thank you snibgo!

I tried the code and unfortunately it just gave a red canvas.

I will attempt to upgrade my imagemagick on Ubuntu and try this again.

Cheers

Hi snibgo

Thank you so much for your advise and help! We basically changed the font and all is great. Many Thanks again

Hi folks!

I was wondering if it is possible to make a caption text fully transparent.
http://i.imgur.com/GkG463T.png

http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#caption_bestfit

convert -background lightblue -fill blue -font Candice -size 320x140 \
caption:'This text is resized to best fill the ...

v6.7.7 is very old. I suggest you upgrade.

Windows BAT syntax:
%IM%convert ^
texture2.jpg ^
( -clone 0 -fill White -colorize 100 ) ^
( -size 600x600 -gravity center -fill Black ^
caption:"WOW\nthis is\nawesome" ) ^
-composite ^
w.png
For bash, escape the parentheses to \( and \), and ...

Hello folks :o

I'm trying to create caption text with a textured background used for the text.

I followed the directions here for the Psychedelic! sample:
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#annotate_size

However, what i was hoping to accomplish was to create textured text on a fixed canvas ...

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

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

In Unix syntax, try

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 ...

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 ...