RE: can gimp do this?
Assume 3600 seconds per hour, and 1000 images. The average time per image could not exceed 3.6 seconds per hour available. if you assume, that gimp run in only one task... it can help to reduce time and memory usage. (more than one task in one time, but with shared memory. if i'm not wrong) -c-
RE: can gimp do this?
Thanks very much to all for your input! As i stated before, i will need to generate image based on Helvetica Neue font. I installed Gimp and noticed the following using GUI: I can specify Helvetica in "Font" section but "Font style" only contains hp-roman8, medium, medium oblique, bold, bold oblique, iso8859-1, medium, medium oblique, bold, bold oblique. It appears that Helvetica Neue style is missing from this list. Can someone tell me how it could be added to Gimp? Thanks again for all your help, James S http://www.eanetwork.org __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
RE: can gimp do this?
Hi all, Jonny: Assume 3600 seconds per hour, and 1000 images. The average time per image could not exceed 3.6 seconds per hour available. Tamas: If you assume, that gimp run in only one task... it can help to reduce time and memory usage. (more than one task in one time, but with shared memory. If i'm not wrong) The magical phrase is "average time per image". If you process 5 images concurrently in 5 minutes then the average time is 1 minute per image. Multi-tasking doesn't boost the CPU's capability, which in this case will spend most of its time processing images. The point I was making regards the rate at which images must be processed, which might influence the most suitable software. Jonathan Paton -- __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
RE: can gimp do this?
Hi all, Jonny: Assume 3600 seconds per hour, and 1000 images. The average time per image could not exceed 3.6 seconds per hour available. Tamas: If you assume, that gimp run in only one task... it can help to reduce time and memory usage. (more than one task in one time, but with shared memory. If i'm not wrong) The magical phrase is "average time per image". If you process 5 images concurrently in 5 minutes then the average time is 1 minute per image. Multi-tasking doesn't boost the CPU's capability, which in this case will spend most of its time processing images. The point I was making regards the rate at which images must be processed, which might influence the most suitable software. Jonathan Paton -- __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: can gimp do this?
hi, REQUIREMENTS: 1) ability to generate .gif 2) image quality is very important 3) controllable image sizes 4) controllable font sizes 5) ability to generate black matte around text 6) Text alignment within image should be controlled 7) Helvetica Neue font must be supported 8) Transparent background is a bonus It seems like three major choices are: (1) Gimp (2) libgd (probably, not a candidate anymore as it does not produce .gifs due to Unisys licensing) (3) ImageMagic Given my requirements, what would you, kind people, recommend? I'd also look at pbmtext. I have a script which makes image from text, its mundane and basic, but it does the job I need...you'd have to read the docs to get your own font in there working (but its easy) . The end result is a centered font, of your choice (or own making!) in a GIF file with transparency heres my little script cat motd.txt | pbmtext -font font.pbm motd.pbm ppmtogif motd.pbm motdtemp.gif giftrans -t "#ff" motdtemp.gif motd.gif converts the message of the day on the main server into a GIF image which then is displayed on all Linux boxes on their kdm/gdm login window. alan
Re: can gimp do this?
Hello Thank you All for your responses. This is how i planned to use it: There will be a batch process on AIX running once a day at night. it will pull text values (up to 1000 of them) from a database or file system and wrap each one into an image to be used as a label on our web site. REQUIREMENTS: 1) ability to generate .gif 2) image quality is very important 3) controllable image sizes 4) controllable font sizes 5) ability to generate black matte around text 6) Text alignment within image should be controlled 7) Helvetica Neue font must be supported 8) Transparent background is a bonus It seems like three major choices are: (1) Gimp (2) libgd (probably, not a candidate anymore as it does not produce .gifs due to Unisys licensing) (3) ImageMagic Given my requirements, what would you, kind people, recommend? Thank you! James --- Marc Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 02:41:03PM -0700, "Jonathan E. Paton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes... but could be slow. If you run GIMP in batch mode then GIMP loads itself again for each You forget that gimp can be programmed using a variety of languages - the shell interface (if one could call it thta) is deifnitely not suited for the task. instance. This explains the frequent mention of ImageMagic for batch image conversion. It's more like ease-of-use and less environmental dependencies, not speed. Gimp is faster at most operations (at very slightly worse quality). -- -==- | ==-- _ | ---==---(_)__ __ __ Marc Lehmann +-- --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] |e| -=/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPE --+ The choice of a GNU generation | | __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: can gimp do this?
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 02:41:03PM -0700, "Jonathan E. Paton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes... but could be slow. If you run GIMP in batch mode then GIMP loads itself again for each You forget that gimp can be programmed using a variety of languages - the shell interface (if one could call it thta) is deifnitely not suited for the task. instance. This explains the frequent mention of ImageMagic for batch image conversion. It's more like ease-of-use and less environmental dependencies, not speed. Gimp is faster at most operations (at very slightly worse quality). -- -==- | ==-- _ | ---==---(_)__ __ __ Marc Lehmann +-- --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] |e| -=/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPE --+ The choice of a GNU generation | |
Re: can gimp do this?
Hi, Yes... but could be slow. If you run GIMP in batch mode then GIMP loads itself again for each instance. This explains the frequent mention of ImageMagic for batch image conversion. What is your function? Webcounters can be done with a function in PHP. You create a single image with your digits, and when you send the function a number it will create a single image. You might be able to adapt the function for other purposes. PHP is a web language. Jonathan Paton -- __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
