Re: labels for CD/DVDs - programmatically from script

On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:49:08 -0600 (MDT)
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| ----- "Scott Serr" <[email protected]> wrote:
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| > 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)
| 
| I was a bit off:
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| "Before version 6.5.2-4, IM would completely ignore the "-pointsize" setting if a "-size" setting is also given. This causes the text in the above images to be auto-sized according to the 'best fit' handling (see next set of examples)."
| 
| I'm wondering how I can work around this with an old version, 6.2.8.
| 
generate your text, then center compose it onto a 460x150 sized image,
after that you can compose that onto your background.




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