hw <h...@gartencenter-vaehning.de> wrote: > Hi, > > suppose I have a number of images that need to be displayed side by > side in a nice layout. The images are of different sizes and have > different aspect ratios. > > To fit the images into the layout, I can scale the images either by > height or width or by percantage, and they will look messy in the > layout because I need to keep their aspect ratio when scaling them. > > So what I need to do is put a frame around each image just as needed > when scaling it so that I will end up with all the images having the > same size while maintaining their aspect ratio. > > I guess 'convert' (from imagemagick) or 'ffmpeg' can do this, yet I > couldn't find out how. > > > (In this particular case, I would set a default size to scale all > images to rather than doing something more complicated like examine > all images in advance to compute a good size to use from the largest > or smallest one or from their average dimensions.) > > > Any ideas how to do this?
Look here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1787356/use-imagemagick-to-place-an-image-inside-a-larger-canvas You must add a resize paremeter as this example is only for placing an image inside a larger canvas. :-) You can easily find more examples in the Internet. -- Regards wabe
