On Thursday 06 January 2011 13:03:06 Fred Weinhaus wrote: > One suggestion, crop out the part of the image that you want to > fill with the text to the same size as the image. Use your > percentage to figure out what to crop. Then use label: rather than > draw with no pointsize. That will draw the text to fill the width > or height to the best size font. Then composite the cropped text > back into the same place it was cropped in your image. > > Or compute the size you want (width or height) use a transparent > background with label: to create a new image and then overlay it > where you want onto your image. > > see http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#label and > http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/layers/#convert > > >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? > > _______________________________________________ > Magick-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
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