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  Comment: Re: (Score 1) on 2009.09.30 17:39

by Abigail on 2009.09.30 17:39 (#70724)
Attached to: ImageMagick / convert / --no-globbing!
Or even:

convert -background "#ffffff" -fill "#000000" -font Helvetica -pointsize 14 -size 400x caption:\"*\" your-file.png

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  Comment: Re: (Score 1) on 2009.09.30 17:37

by Abigail on 2009.09.30 17:37 (#70723)
Attached to: ImageMagick / convert / --no-globbing!
Duh. Much simpler:

convert -background "#ffffff" -fill "#000000" -font Helvetica -pointsize 14 -size 400x caption:"'*'" your-file.png

The shell eats the double quotes, and convert gets the single quotes.

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  Comment: Re: (Score 1) on 2009.09.30 17:34

by Abigail on 2009.09.30 17:34 (#70722)
Attached to: ImageMagick / convert / --no-globbing!
That works until you have a file whose name ends with a space. Another way:

(mkdir X; cd X; convert -background "#ffffff" -fill "#000000" -font Helvetica -pointsize 14 -size 400x caption:"*" ../your-file.png; cd ..; rmdir X)

This uses the fact that in an empty directory, a globbed '*' is just a '*'.

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