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- From: riddle@is.rice.edu (Prentiss Riddle)
- Subject: Re: Wanted: Unix tool for generating "contact sheet" of GIF images
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:55:34 GMT
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- In article <C0CA0t.G4M@rice.edu> riddle@is.rice.edu (Prentiss Riddle) writes:
- > From: riddle@is.rice.edu (Prentiss Riddle)
- > Subject: Wanted: Unix tool for generating "contact sheet" of GIF images
- > Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:02:52 GMT
- >
- > I am looking for the right tool with which to reduce a number of GIF
- > images to thumbnail size and combine them together with their titles to
- > form a "contact sheet".
- >
- > It needs to run under Unix and it would be preferable if it could run
- > in non-interactive mode (I'd like to be able to run it automatically
- > from a shell script).
- >
- > The purpose is to generate a visual table of contents for a Gopher
- > directory of images. Has anyone done this yet?
-
- I've gotten four answers with three solutions in just the few minutes
- since I posted this:
-
- | From: higgins@infonode.ingr.com (T. J. Higgins)
- |
- | You need the PBMplus package, specifically the pnmindex program. You
- | can get PBMplus from your favorite FTP site, or use archie.
-
- | From: Tom.Lane@g.gp.cs.cmu.edu
- |
- | What you want is "icontact", a Perl script posted recently in
- | comp.sources.misc. You'll also need PBMPLUS. icontact will chop,
- | slice, dice, ... anyway, it has every frammish you could ever want.
-
- | From: cristy@eplrx7.es.dupont.com (Cristy)
- |
- | Try 'montage' from contrib/ImageMagick.tar.Z on export.lcs.mit.edu:
- |
- | Montage creates a composite image by combining several
- | separate images. The images are tiled on the composite
- | image with the name of the image optionally appearing just
- | below the individual tile.
-
- I'm still interested in other solutions, especially any which have been
- tailored to automagically generate a contact sheet from a Gopher
- directory. Thanks!
-
- -- Prentiss Riddle ("aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada") riddle@rice.edu
- -- Unix Systems Programmer, Office of Networking and Computing Systems
- -- Rice University, POB 1892, Houston, TX 77251 / Mudd 208 / 713-285-5327
- -- Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer.
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