[SOLVED] Imagemagick

GPGAgent · 05-02-2020, 12:50 PM

I'm using convert tp put some text on an image and I have one little niggling problem - I cannot see how to move the text to the center of the label:

Code:

charlie@charlie-machine:~/COOKING$ echo $T
--- Omelette ---
charlie@charlie-machine:~/COOKING$ convert IMG_3680.JPG -background Khaki -pointsize 80 -fill red -weight 700  label:"$T" +swap -gravity North -append IMG_3680-out.JPG
charlie@charlie-machine:~/COOKING$

And attached are the images before and after adding the text.

I want to move the red text to the centre of the khaki banner

ondoho · 05-02-2020, 02:08 PM

I'd say it is centered horizontally - so you mean vertically? It's a font thing. Imagine you had a g, y or p letter there.
Add some padding, if possible more to the top than the bottom.

shruggy · 05-02-2020, 02:23 PM

Use -gravity. See here for example usage with labels.

GPGAgent · 05-02-2020, 05:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

I'd say it is centered horizontally - so you mean vertically? It's a font thing. Imagine you had a g, y or p letter there.
Add some padding, if possible more to the top than the bottom.

Correct, I checked the font explanation and did a test which shows it is centred vertically, just looks odd so I would like to add padding to just shift the text down a bit in the banner.

GPGAgent · 05-03-2020, 06:35 AM

This is the script as it stands, I need to pad the red text down a few point, bit I cannot figure out how to do it despite much DuckDucking

Code:

convert -fill red -weight 700 -pointsize 20 -gravity north -undercolor khaki -draw "text 0,0 '  Chicken with Sweet Chilli and Garlic'" IN.JPG OUT.JPG

Cheers

shruggy · 05-03-2020, 07:17 AM

How about

Code:

convert -background khaki -fill red -weight 700 -pointsize 20 -gravity north -splice 0x25 -annotate +0+20 '--- Omelette ---' IN.JPG OUT.JPG

GPGAgent · 05-04-2020, 06:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shruggy

How about

Code:

convert -background khaki -fill red -weight 700 -pointsize 20 -gravity north -splice 0x25 -annotate +0+20 '--- Omelette ---' IN.JPG OUT.JPG

Perfect, vary many thanks, bit of tweaking and this is exactly what I wanted to learn, I can apply this to other scripts. I tweaked the -annotate values.

Code:

convert -background khaki -fill red -weight 700 -pointsize 20 -gravity north -splice 0x25 -annotate +0+3 '---ABC  abcdefghijklmnopq XYZ ---' IMG_3680.JPG OUT.JPG