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Create a Logo from the Command Line

Apr 21, 2008  By Girish Venkatachalam
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You can create a neat logo from the Linux command line:

$ convert -size 800x120 xc:white -font Times-Roman
-pointsize 100 -fill gray -annotate +20+80 'Linux is cool!'
-fill black -annotate +23+83 'Linux is cool!' -trim
+repage logo.png

And, the following command should display the result:

$ qiv logo.png

If you want to play with multiple colors and fonts, the following will help:

$ convert -list type
$ convert -list color

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CONVERT program is not

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 02:17.

CONVERT program is not installed in all distros !

program used

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Submitted by Micah Bucy (not verified) on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 12:21.

It may be important to note that the program used is ImageMagick or its replacement, GraphicsMagick, as not all distros have this built in.

Interesting

Daniel's picture
Submitted by Daniel (not verified) on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 09:39.

This is cool. I've never really thought about graphics on the command line..

And qiv is *very* fast.

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