Re: Example in DOS - font problem

Thank You! - It works!

Pete Whatever skrev:
> Hi Jan,
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>> I don't know how to split the rows in a "batch file"
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> The DOS line continuation character is ^
> More info on converting scripts is at: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/windows/#convertion
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>> I have an font on my hard disk with the name: "c:\windows\fonts\Sheer Beauty Regular.ttf"
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> If a font name has spaces in it, Windows replaces them with hyphens -
> So, you'll probably need to use the name "Sheer-Beauty-Regular" or perhaps "Sheer-Beauty"
> but to find out for sure, you can use this IM command to get a list of all the fonts that IM can find and the name you use to access it:
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> identify -list font
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>> I don't understand what '% c' means or where the variable find its value ("Hatching of Linux")
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> I assume that it is a shell variable but the webpage never explains where it comes from.
> In DOS you would set a variable like this:
> set c=Hatching of Linux
> (don't use quotes around the string) and then to refer to that variable in the convert command you must put a percent sign on both sides of the variable name like this %c%
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> There are a few other changes you can make. In linux, the characters ! # ( and ) must be escaped with a backslash because they mean something different to the shell. But with DOS they don't, so you can remove the backslashes. Also, Linux uses single qutoes around strings but DOS uses the double quote.
> So your original command should look something like this:
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> convert -define jpeg:size=400x400  hatching_orig.jpg  -resize "120x200>" ^
>      ( +clone -matte -fill transparent -draw "color 0,0 reset" ^
>         -resize 1000x200!  -font Sheer-Beauty -pointsize 72 -gravity Center ^
>         -strokewidth 8 -stroke black  -fill black  -annotate 0,0 "%c%" ^
>         -channel RGBA -blur 0x8 ^
>         -strokewidth 1 -stroke white  -fill white  -annotate 0,0 "%c%" ^
>         -fuzz 1% -trim +repage -resize 115x ^
>      ) -gravity North -composite  -strip +repage  annotated.gif
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> Best Wishes
> Pete
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