Donn Ingle on wrote... | Hello list, new here and to IM. | I have been trying to overlay one image on another -- working up to (one | day) a script to put drop-shadows onto any image. | | I have been following through the tutorials and have hit a brick wall on the | composite command under Kubuntu Dapper. | http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/compose/ | | Here is the same code: | | convert -background none  -fill white -pointsize 36  label:A \ | label_A_white.png | composite -gravity center label_A_white.png  rose:  \ | compose_over.gif | | That should out a white 'A' over a rose, but all I get is a rose. In fact, | none of my tests (using pngs) has ever overlaid at all. | | Any ideas? | It works for me with the current version of IM v6.3.2-9
However the example above was full of meta-spaces rather than ordinary spaces causing IM lots of trouble until I replaced them. As for drop shadows see the new -shadow transform operators http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/convolve/#shadow Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can say a lot in a few simple words, but a Word Document is a whole lot bigger! -- Anthony Thyssen ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony's Home is his Castle http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/ _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
