From: ik (kanerido_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Sat 28 Aug 2004 - 09:53:53 IDT
amos_at_amos.mailshell.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm in a hurry to print a few dozens of images from a digital camera and
> would like to print them with text description under them.
>
> What I envision is to be able to convert image (in a JPEG file) which
> looks like this:
>
> +----------------------------+
> | |
> | |
> ..
> | |
> +----------------------------+
>
> To something like this:
>
> +-----------------------+
> | |
> ..
> | |
> +-----------------------+
> Rome, Italy, 17 July 2003
>
> I then plan to go with these images to a photo printer to get hard
> copies.
>
> 1. The image might be a squeezed ("zoomed out") in order to free space
> for the description, if required.
> 2. It would be nice if the date could be obrtained automatically from
> the JPEG file (using exif tools?)
> 3. It would be nice to be able to do this in command line or via text
> files, instead of having to update each image separatly with an image
> manipulation program.
>
> Googling around so far didn't bring up anything useful. I'm looking at
> the GIMP but me and the GIMP have never been on good terms so I'm still
> at the "dah? What's this?" stage of using it (would script-fu help
> here?)
>
> Thanks for any help/pointers.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --Amos
>
The only way I know how to do it to work well is by using programs like a presentation program.
There might be a way to do it with Gimp, but I do not have it installed on this computer, but you
may want to see the print dialog of Gimp and see if it have an option to print with comments.
Ido
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