Quoting Anthony Thyssen <[email protected]>:

>
> On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:17:38 -0500
> [email protected] wrote:
> | I'm trying to add some text to my images that are being
> | hot-linked from other websites.
> |
> | Adding the text works OK, however the images vary wildly in size, and
> | once they're scaled in the browser, the text becomes illegible, so,
> | I'd like to size the text to be a percentage of the image height, not
> | a fixed point size.
> |
> | For example, if the image is 400px high, I'd like 40px text. If the
> | image is 4000px high, I'd like 400px text.
> |
> | Can anybody toss me a clue on how I can accomplish this?
> |
> | My current command is:
> |
> | convert "test.gif"
> | -font "/path/to/font/Loma.ttf"
> | -pointsize 32
> | -geometry x500
> | -gravity NorthWest
> | -draw "text 4,4 'This text goes on the image'" gif:-
> |
> | Any suggestions?
>
> Set a label -size limit instead of a point size, and text of the right
> size will be generated to fit.
>
> See IM Examples, Text Labels, Best fit
>   http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#label_bestfit

I'm not sure how this helps, since I still need to know the image size to 
select an appropriate label size.

Is there any sort of option to specify text size as a percentage of image size?

Thanks!

Terry
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