Re: labels for CD/DVDs - programmatically from script

Actually, you would probably be better off using -annotate rather 
than label: as you are specifying a pointsize and size. Annotate is 
gravity sensitive and has built-in offsets similar to using 
-geometry. But it won't resize the last image.



>Hello image gurus,
>
>I've spent a couple hours trying to get text in regions of a square 
>background.  First I just want 2 regions, the upper portion and 
>lower portion of a CD.  (I'll be using this with lightscribe DVDs)
>
>I've avoided "-draw" because I didn't see a way to center horizontally.  So...
>
>I've tried doing parenthesis for this regions and then doing a 
>-composite into the larger background. 
>
>This sort of works:
>
>convert  -size 480x480 xc:skyblue \
>	\( -size 460x140 -font Helvetica -pointsize 24 -gravity center \
>		label:'Red Hat Enterprise Linux\nStuff' \) \
>	-geometry +0-150 -composite \
>	\( -size 460x140 -font Helvetica -pointsize 24 -gravity center \
>		label:'Version 5.6\nx86-64' \)  \
>	-geometry +0+150 -composite \
>	gif:- | display gif:-
>
>The bottom text shows it's resized larger during compositing.  I'd 
>like the two 460x150 region with a fixed sized font to be composited 
>as is.  (trimmed in length of they are too long would be fine)
>
>Any help is appreciated,
>Scott