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You make good points. I am trying to stay within the Fred's script area because his scripts seem to be designed to already do some functionality that I need.

Fred:

I hacked the autolabel script to optionally position the text at a point of the user's desire. If you were interested, I could send you my modified script.

I continue to get the integer expression expected message, but the script does produce an output. By changing to -size 40x20 -m caption I get a different result, the text is now in two rows. Here is my objective: 1) Take a number of photos 2) Add a caption and possibly a frame (picframe may do this)...

OK, success! I replaced dir="/tmp" with dir="." and got my file with the text written. I continue to get an error message, however. I am trying to use the -m caption option, but this produces an error message: :integer expression expected --- Invalid Combination of Pointsize and ...

I did the simple one-line script approach, except it had 4 lines imdir="/cygdrive/c/Program Files/ImageMagick-6.7.7-Q16"# #(such as imdir="/usr/local/bin" or imdir="/usr/bin") PATH="${imdir}:${PATH}"# # convert armour.jpg -rotate 90 nresult.jpg This worked fin...

One other thought for you, Fred. Couldn't you write a simple Perl script which would do the conversion? I will do that, and send it to you.

Thanks, Fred. I will try to keep notes on my progress. Thus far, I have added a path to the location of the convert file to all the places inside the script. Thus far, I am still not getting joy, but am continuing to work through. I will post to you directly when I do. I will make the additional fix...

That error is fixed.

I went to cygwin and checked the install. It was on the "skip" list. I will install it and retry.

The "bc error" that I refer to is

bc: command not found

bonzo: Well, I do
which bc
and get
no bc in (long list of locations)

I am new to IM but the Fred's scripts seem like a good way to go. As usual with gnu-ware, the learning curve is steep. I'm an experienced TeX-nician, but am only an amateur at other gnu-tools. Here's where I am at: 1) Installed cygwin on my Win7 box - I've used this before 2) Downloaded IM 7.6.6 for...