On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 11:11:47AM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:

> I tried the montage command with what seemed like reasonable options, there 
> was a good deal of disk activity, then the prompt returned with 'Killed' 
> report.  Could it be that the contents of the directory were to big to manage?
> 
> Anne
> 

Possibly. How many files did you have? I've been experimenting with this
and it seems like a good limit is about 40 images, which can produce two
composites of images tiled 4x5 @ 200 pixels, which is what I like.

I have some scripts I've been using to facilitate this if you're
interested. One will take the images in a directory and put them in
subdirectories containing exactly 20 images. Another will run the
montage command on each of those subdirectories.

I made it so that the montage rotates images that are taller than they
are wide. It makes the resulting composite "prettier," though sometimes
I have to turn my head sideways.

When I run montage, I do:

montage -geometry 200+2+5 -background white -label %f -tile 4x5
image1.jpg image2.jpg [or, *.jpg] index.jpg

That puts a 2 pixel border on the x and 5 pixel border on the y, and
prints the filename under each picture, 4 pictures across and 5 down,
and names the composite index.jpg.

Todd

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