[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hello,
>
> I'm in a hurry to print a few dozens of images from a digital camera and
> would like to print them with text description under them.
>
> What I envision is to be able to convert image (in a JPEG file) which
> looks like this:
>
> +----------------------------+
> | |
> | |
> ..
> | |
> +----------------------------+
>
> To something like this:
>
> +-----------------------+
> | |
> ..
> | |
> +-----------------------+
> Rome, Italy, 17 July 2003
>
> I then plan to go with these images to a photo printer to get hard
> copies.
>
> 1. The image might be a squeezed ("zoomed out") in order to free space
> for the description, if required.
> 2. It would be nice if the date could be obrtained automatically from
> the JPEG file (using exif tools?)
> 3. It would be nice to be able to do this in command line or via text
> files, instead of having to update each image separatly with an image
> manipulation program.
>
> Googling around so far didn't bring up anything useful. I'm looking at
> the GIMP but me and the GIMP have never been on good terms so I'm still
> at the "dah? What's this?" stage of using it (would script-fu help
> here?)
>
> Thanks for any help/pointers.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --Amos
>
imagemagick [http://www.imagemagick.org/] is a collection of tools that
can perform pretty much any manipulation you wish from the command
line. If you look at the front page of their Web site you will see that
"Draw shapes or text on an image" is a feature.
Imagemagic is ideal for inclusion into scripts.
--
"Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
Regards, Yoni Rabkin Katzenell
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