Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

I'm trying to clean up and center some bitonal page images from books. I've done this with a perl script that divides the page into a grid and looks for the percentage of white in each region. So the page essentially looks like this, except bigger: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1...

Thanks. I'm using IM6. I went ahead and wrote a script which was pretty easy after all. Good point about removing the profile values after cropping.

I was all set to write a custom cropping script using the crs:Crop settings in the XML profile by calculating those values as percentages of the original image dimensions. Then I noticed IM can read the profile using the -profile switch with an xmp: prefix on the profile filename. I tried running th...

OK, what I think is happening is the tiff's palette is screwing things up. I increased the color depth to 16 million colors in IrfanView and saved it as a test file. Working on that test file I got annotate to work. It also works when converting the file to grayscale or bitonal first BTW. Could it b...

# convert L1522.tif -background White label:'Faerie Dragon' +swap -gravity Center -append crop.tif # convert L1522.tif -gravity North -background White label:"Faerie Dragon" crop.tif # convert L1522.tif -annotate +5+5 'Something' crop.tif # convert L8320.tif -annotate 0 'something' -fill ...

I had this issue generating gif images. Any other format, jpeg, etc., should work fine.

I've been working for two days to try to add some text to an image and nothing I try works. I started on Solaris simply using 'convert' to try and do it. In most cases the image is created fine but never with any text. Here are some of the things I tried: # convert L1522.tif -background White label:...