[PLUG] Concatenating two square icons to get single rectangular image

[Galen Seitz]

On 02/14/2018 04:13 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Serendipity *RULES* <grin>
> Just before reading your post and after following an unreproducible web 
> of references and links I had found <http://www.graphicsmagick.org/>. I 
> found hints that what I wanted was possible - but how was unclear.
> 
> "montage -geometry <size> <file1> <file2> ...<filen> <output>" resembled 
> what I'd seen. I then used "montage" as a search term at 
> <https://manpages.debian.org/>. That delivered 
> <https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat/montage.1.en.html> 
> which described what I wanted.
> 
> There are strong hints that its output will be a "miff" format file. 
> It's not yet clear if that can be converted to a "png" format file.
> 
> If that can not be done, it will not be usable on a MATE panel.
> HOWEVER I've found references on <http://wiki.tcl.tk/> that I can 
> achieve a suitable substitute.
> 
> " How the program decides how to arrange the pictures " is not terribly 
> important as long as it is repeatable.
> 
> I doubt authors were thinking of my constraints.
> *HOWEVER*, if it works I'm happy.
> I'm off to discover just what a "miff" formatted image might be.

As Richard says, it's okay to under use a tool.  There's tons of 
capability in bash that I don't use, but that doesn't stop me from using 
it on a daily basis.

montage is part of ImageMagick.  What I think you want is montage 
concatenation mode.

<http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/montage/>
Scroll down near the bottom of the page to find concatenation mode 
described.

I believe montage (and ImageMagick in general) will look at the filename 
extension of the output file to determine the output file type.

Something like this is probably what you want:

montage icon1.png icon2.png -mode Concatenate -tile x1 output.png


galen
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