On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 17:50:29 +0100
[email protected] wrote:
| Hi,
| 
| In order to feed some "original looking" (a.k.a. non standard size)
| photo frames (old fashion ones, not "digital electronic frames") with
| digital pictures, I need to print them on paper at various size.
| 
| The only way I found out to do that is (please don't laugh :o) ):
| - Print a black square images (something like 32000x32000 pixels at
| full page using the windows xp print image feature (with the option
| that doesn't crop the image)
| - Measure the size of the result on the printer I am using
| - Compute how many white pixels I must add on edges of the picture I
| want to print so it will have the correct size
| - Use "convert -append" to build this image and print it...
| 
| While it is actually working very well, it is really a pain...
| 
| Could someone give me a better solution for doing this?
| (ideally, I'd like to just set the DPI resolution of the picture using
| convert, and have my image printed at the right size (it would also
| been nice to be able to print many images on the same page since I
| sometime need picture of 60mm x 60mm).
| 
| Thanks in advance for any hint

if you know how many pixels you need in total you could use -extent
with appropriate -gravity and -background setings


  Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer )    <[email protected]>
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