Posted by Jim Higson on 03/10/06 10:59

Terry Pinnell wrote:

> Jim Higson <jh@333.org> wrote:
>
>>Terry Pinnell wrote:
>>
>>> I'd appreciate hearing how others would tackle the following simple
>>> exercise please. I've finally got around after some 6 months to
>>> publishing photos of my 2005 Thames Path walk on my home pages:
>>> http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/terrypin/Walks/TP05/walkphotos05.htm
>>> (Links to the two previous years' walks are also included.)
>>>
>>> As you see, the layout is basic layout and so is the presentation
>>> method: each captioned thumbnail takes you to an individual enlarged
>>> photo (about 640 x 420, made by resizing the edited originals). But
>>> that loses the captions, and I'd like them included.
>>>
>>> I've experimented before with adding captions within the photo itself,
>>> but don't really like the result, which can spoil the composition.
>>>
>>> So I'm now considering making new images, say about 640 x 440, with
>>> the caption in the added white space below the photo.
>>>
>>> (As an aside, anyone have any ideas on fast/automated ways of
>>> achieving that? Doing it manually for each image will be tedious.
>>> Given that the text already exists under the thumbnails, it should be
>>> possible somehow to automate it...)
>>>
>>> But what other approaches would others recommend please? IOW, what are
>>> better methods of allowing the photos to be displayed at that larger
>>> size, complete with captions?
>>>
>>> I'm relatively inexperienced with low level HTML coding, and use
>>> FrontPage 2000 for most of my stuff.
>>
>>http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-graf/?ca=dnt-428
>>and
>>http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-graf2/?ca=dgr-lnxw15GraphicsLine
>>could do what you want pretty quickly.
>
> Thanks Jim, downloading ImageMagick now and will study. Never been too
> comfortable with command line stuff, but if it does the job...#

I can't help on the command to use for your particular problem, but I know
it is possible. If your comfortable enough with the command line to enter a
line someone else gives you, you could always ask on the imagemagick
mailing list and I'd guess they'd help out.

In general, the command line is good because it lets you do things the
original program creators didn't think of. For example, I recently had to
produce raster images containing the first few hundread square numbers. I
don't think this could have easily been done with GUI software.

--
Jim

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