Fred, Anthony, Thanks for the responses. I am still very puzzled.
The suggestion to use convert -append works fine i.e. : convert d_6.jpg d_7.jpg d_8.jpg d_9.jpg -append out.jpg the images maintain their original resolution. All thats missing now is a way of introducing some space between the tiles (-geometry does a different thing here than in montage I believe). I guess I can add a border prior to the append operation. But the examples of montage fail as before: montage d_6.jpg d_7.jpg d_8.jpg d_9.jpg -tile 1x out.jpg resamples the image to a fraction of the resolution. Its not related to the output file (whether its ps or jpg) and I am using V6 on the latest release of Ubuntu. The examples on http://imagemagick.org/Usage/montage/ arent all that useful here because they do not show the original images so I can not tell if the resolution is preserved. What puzzles me is that these program are so widely used, *it must* be something trivial that I am doing wrong. Any other tips are appreciated Cheers Gertjan On Feb 12, 2008 6:36 PM, Anthony Thyssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "gertjan hofman" on wrote... > | Dear ImageMagick users > | > | This is probably a trivial question, but I just can not get montage to > | do the simplest things. > | > | I have 4 gif images, 600x200 pixels. I would like them stacked on a > | page (1 colum, 4 rows). No matter what option > | (density, page size, geometry, resample) i play with the result is > | always that the images are resampled at very low resolution into the > | output file > | > | i.e. the original 600x200 resolution is lost. > | > | I have tried things like: > | montage d1.gif d2.gif d3.gif d4.gif -page A4 -tile 1x4 -geometry > | +2+2 hello.ps > | > | or adding -density 100 etc. I can change the overal output file size, > | but I always end up with fuzzy images on a page. > | > | It doesn't really matter what the starting images are or what format. > | I am missing some fundamental understanding of what montage is doing. > | > | Can someone post a simple example for me ? > | > The option is -tile but your example was using it. > > Your -geometry option should turn off any resizing of the image > The -page A4 should not effect anything as you have set it AFTER > reading the images. > > Examples of montage usage is in IM Examples, Montage > http://imagemagick.org/Usage/montage/ > The images shown IS what the listed code actually produces, as that code > is extracted from the HTML page and executed to produce those images. > > I think however the first thing you need to do is check... > > What version of ImageMagick are you using? > > It's odd behaviour sounds more like version 5 problems of ImageMagick > that existed before the command line handling was overhauled for IM v6 > > > > Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Oh, the pain... the pain of it all!" -- Doctor Smith, Lost in Space > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Anthony's Home is his Castle > http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/<http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/%7Eanthony/> > -- ================================================== Gertjan Hofman ghofman [at] gmail.com gertjan.hofman [at] honeywell.com http://koslx1.triumf.ca/gertjan 604-982-3574 ================================================== _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
