Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Installing legacy components fixed the issue. Feel free to mark thread as resolved.

Thanks,

I didnt realize montage was legacy... thank you very much. We will try that again and report back today.

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Hello, I have updated IM on a user's PC to ImageMagick-7.0.8-12-Q16-x64-dll. We call montage.exe via PowerShell and are now receiving errors: 'PS C:\Users\bennort> \\Path\Script.ps1 E:\image.jpg Thursday, October 11, 2018 10:32:41 AM Creating contact sheet bennort montage : The term 'montage' is not...

I took your advice, and cut out all the extra steps and simply omitted both the text file and the variable naming the files with a direct path to the files themselves (they are in one folder). My previous methods would only allow around 1k images, but by doing this I was maintaining success with clo...

Woops, sorry about that: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/519 ... -text-file

There are a few options i thought of this morning, perhaps piping the document into the montage command will relieve the errors.

Thanks again for all your help, I am still having issues using the '@' operator. It may be conflicting with the PowerShell language etc. I opened a thread on Stack Overflow for more specific help with PowerShell. If you have time to give it a look it may help better explain my issue. When using the ...

Can you describe how to use the '@'? I have all the filename paths written to a text document now, $contactSheetFiles. The paths are separated by new lines like so: E:\Output\Image1.jpg E:\Output\Image2.jpg E:\Output\Image3.jpg Then I use similar code as before montage -verbose -label %t -pointsize ...

OK, I can look into that. Does that really explain why everything worked fine all the way up to X number of images and then resulted in this error when it was X+1? The only thing that changed between successful and unsuccessful runs was the addition of a few more images to the source. $dailyimages.F...

I recreated the error by incrementally adding more images to the source folder until the script failed and produced the following error, 'Program 'montage.exe' failed to run: The filename or extension is too long'.

Snibgo, I made a correction to my last response. I was referring to creating a contact sheet that is 15 images across and the number of rows would be determined by the total number of images divided by 15. For instance if there's 60 images, 60/15= 4, so 4 rows of 15 images. Sorry for the confusion. ...

$contactSheetRows will be equivalent to the number of total images for each contact sheet divided by 15. My logic was that 15 columns was 'aesthetically pleasing' and I didn't want blank rows. It sounds like you are suggesting that I have created my own limitations by doing this, and that if I do no...

Hello, I use image magick montage to create 'contact sheets' for my photography team. From time to time the total number of images exceeds the pixel dimension limitation and the script 'fails', creating no image. Here is my current code: montage -verbose -label %t -pointsize 25 -background '#FFFFFF'...

Using PowerShell's 'Get-ChildItem' I have successfully generated a Contact Sheet from multiple directories by doing the following: foreach ($dailyPhotoBay in $dailyServerPath) { $dailyImage = Get-ChildItem -Path $dailyPhotoBay -Include *.jpg -Recurse | Where-Object {$_.PSParentPath -like "*Outp...

Hello Image Magick Community, I have found several tutorials regarding contact sheets using the montage command. However, I have not found any that provide instruction on how to create a contact sheet from multiple directories or even a recursive directory. Is anyone aware of how to perform this act...

Great - this works. Thanks @snibgo