[CALUG] adding simple text to images

[Sean Wilkerson]

Walt,

I like ImageMagick as well for batch work etc., and it is very powerful,
but I recently discovered "shutter" which is a VERY simple GUI utility
for doing light image actions such as screenshots, crop,
simple-manipulation, and text-adding.
http://shutter-project.org/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/shutter/

It is in the standard ubuntu repos, not sure about other distros.
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/shutter
http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/shutter

I think you will like it, and it is very easy/simple to use.  Imagine
mspaint for Linux yet considerably more functional and not as annoying.

Sean

On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 22:34 -0500, Ken Jackson wrote:
> If you have the ImageMagick package installed, you can use the 'convert' 
> command:
> 
>     convert -gravity SouthWest -annotate +10+10 "Some Text" input.jpeg 
> output.jpeg
> 
> There's also the GraphicsMagick package, which spun off of the other:
> 
>    gm convert -gravity SouthWest -draw 'text +10+10 "Some Text"' \
>          -font <full path of .ttf file> input.jpeg output.jpeg
> 
> I had to specify the full path for gm to work.
> Each tool has a million switches to alter the result.
> 
> The nice thing about the command-line approach is it's inherently 
> scriptable.
> Once you get a working script, you can convert a million files in one go.
> 
> -Ken
> 
> On 03/09/2011 03:55 PM, Walt Smith wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > how can I add some simple text to an image, either photos
> > or a bmp ( that I created years ago with some windows
> > program ) ??  The images open OK in any viewer....
> >
> > I want to clear a rectangular area, and paste in text.
> >
> > I have
> > eye of gnome
> > evince
> > gthumb
> > showphoto
> > digikam
> > gimp
> >
> > I can't get gimp to simply put in text...errrr, I can,
> > but it won't actually paste... ..  multiple
> > undos get rid of the text I tried to insert.
> > I have multiple select rectangles
> > open and other misc stuff that won't go away.
> >
> >
> > digikam doesn't seem to have any simple editor.
> > And was a PITA - took an hour to find that "config"
> > was the place to simply add a directory from...thats crazy.
> >
> > showphoto can add text, but can't eliminate the bits in a selected area.
> > I need to clear a selected area before adding text.
> > And when I try to add text, the window size becomes greatly
> > reduced and I can't see what I'm doing.
> >
> > suggestions ??
> >
> > Walt......
> 
> 
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