On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 10:47, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> > Yeah, the manpages suck.
> 
> The ones of the late 5.5.x are a lot(!) better, the 6.x ones are
> rumoured to have been rearranged and the options tidied up. If it works
> it would be a big plus.
> 
> > I've found a few good sites if anyone wants the
> > links. 
> 
> Yes please!

http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graphics/
http://www.csb.yale.edu/userguides/image/im/www/mogrify.html
http://www.imagemagick.org/www/utilities.html

> > But the code itself seems OK
> 
> Ehhhm, mostly. I use montage a lot for making photo index pages. With
> the current lot you can't change the font size, because if you do, the
> text is always 3 times as wide as the whole page, let alone one photo.
> It's this kind of thing I'm talking about. Reliability that something
> which used to work still works at the next version is 2 out of 10. If
> it works, the quality is certainly good.

Ah, right. I foudn that the montage is very sensitive to original image
size, so I have to resize the images to all the same size before
amalgamating the composite image. I've used it to do a video effect that
shows a matrix of different video clips, looking a bit like a bank of TV
screens.

Here's a site with great font resources:
http://go.to/todofuentes/

Vik :v)
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