Positioning element(text,image)

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Positioning element(text,image)

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Please, how do I specify the x and y offset(that is top left) of an element(-annotate, xc, -draw -label), absolutely to the size of the background am putting the element.

the element may be like these:

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-annotate +x+y "My text is here"
but I will want to first apply the x and y offset before using -gravity to set the alignment of the text, i want to avoid the -gravity affecting the x and y offset.
Hope my question is not ambiguous. Thanks
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Re: Positioning element(text,image)

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gravity tells annotate to position the x,y relative to nw, n, ne, e, se, s, sw, w corners or the center of the image. If you want north west corner (top left), then either leave -gravity off, since nw is the default or specify -gravity northwest. Then if you need to do other things aftewards, you can change the gravity value. -draw does not respect gravity. label: will respect gravity. You do not want to use -label as that is for meta data. xc does not respect gravity as it creates a new image. Perhaps if you explained what you are trying to do, we could help further.


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Re: Positioning element(text,image)

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Thanks Fred, your post has really educated me.

Here is what am trying to achieve, Please use the link below(uploaded image)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mcYrB ... p=sharing



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Re: Positioning element(text,image)

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What tool are you using to create the text and position it. Is the text from an image or not? See the following link and the various methods of creating or adding text:

https://imagemagick.org/Usage/text/

Annotate and draw add text to an existing image. Note that -annotate respects gravity, but -draw does not. Looks like you are trying to add text with offsets from the top left corner. That would be the default or for -annotate you can add -gravity northwest. In -annotate you specify the offsets as arguments. With -draw, you specify the argument in the draw command for the offsets of the text.

With label: and caption:, you create a new image with a transparent background. Then you composite it over the background image with -geometry to position it.

A little more description of what you are trying or you command line that you have tried would be helpful.

Example:

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magick logo.png -fill black -font arial -pointsize 32 -annotate +150+200 "TESTING" logo_annotate.png
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Re: Positioning element(text,image)

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Hi Fred, I later got a way round the problem I was trying to solve, yes. thanks sir.
but what if am using the caption image operator, how do i specify the x and y offset of the paragraph.
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Re: Positioning element(text,image)

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dt59 wrote: 2018-12-21T17:18:32-07:00 Hi Fred, I later got a way round the problem I was trying to solve, yes. thanks sir.
but what if am using the caption image operator
What is your exact question regarding caption:?

Note that caption: creates a new image of the text, which must be composited over the background image using -gravity and -geometry.

Here is an example:

Input:
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Unix syntax (for windows remove the two \ )

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convert logo.png \( -background none -size 200x -pointsize 32 -gravity center -fill pink caption:"THIS IS SOME TESTING OF CAPTION" \) -gravity northwest -geometry +150+200 -compose over -composite logo_caption.png
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https://imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#caption
https://imagemagick.org/Usage/compose/#geometry
https://imagemagick.org/Usage/layers/#convert
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Re: Positioning element(text,image)

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fmw42 wrote: 2018-12-21T17:23:33-07:00
dt59 wrote: 2018-12-21T17:18:32-07:00 Hi Fred, I later got a way round the problem I was trying to solve, yes. thanks sir.
but what if am using the caption image operator
What is your exact question regarding caption:?
how do I specify the x and y offset of the paragraph
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Re: Positioning element(text,image)

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See my edited answer above
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