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2007.11.11 11:39 "Re: labeling/watermark", by Toby Thain
On 11-Nov-07, at 2:42 AM, Ron Croonenberg wrote: > Hi Gerben, > > Well the images are produced as a result of simulations. They are > created directly from raw data. When the image gets created I want to > print some "characteristics" in a corner. (Many moons ago there was > something called Borland C, and that had a function settext (or > something like that). You'd choose a font, a location and basically > put > text on the screen. I want something similar. if it puts the text in a > bitmapped buffer than that's fine I (probably) can get that on the > Tiff > image when it's created. > > If I have to convert images and use all kinds of tools and different > libraries the "thing" probably becomes to big to conveniently run on a > cluster. libgd may help. http://www.libgd.org/Main_Page --Toby > > thanks, > > Ron > > > Gerben Vos wrote: >> Ron Croonenberg wrote: >> >>> I want to make sort of a "label" in/on a TIFF image. (so that it >>> looks >>> like I put a transparent a label with text on the image in a >>> corner.) >> >> I don't know of any TIFF-specific utilities that do this. This is >> more >> a general image manipulation thing. What I'd probably do is >> convert the >> TIFF to PNM, put the text on it using pbmtext/pnmcomp or ppmlabel, >> then >> convert it back to TIFF. I'm sure ImageMagick and other generic image >> manipulation libraries have something for you too. >> >> Gerben Vos. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tiff mailing list: Tiff@lists.maptools.org >> http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/tiff >> http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/ > > -- > ================================================================= > Ron Croonenberg | > | Phone: 1 765 658 4761 > Lab Instructor & | Fax: 1 765 658 4732 > Technology Coordinator | > | > Department of Computer Science | e-mail: ronc@DePauw.edu > DePauw University | > 275 Julian Science & Math Center | > 602 South College Ave. | > Greencastle, IN 46135 | > ================================================================= > > _______________________________________________ > Tiff mailing list: Tiff@lists.maptools.org > http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/tiff > http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/