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danieles1981
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add text by "annotate"

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Hi,
I've to add a text to a pdf. I use:

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convert /home/1.pdf -fill black -gravity South -annotate +0+15 'some text here' /home/2.pdf
How can I keep original text resolution?
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magick
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You PDF is likely vector based-- if so you'll need a PDF editor to add text to the image. If you intent was to rasterize the image and annotate it, use super-sampling like this:

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convert -density 300 /home/1.pdf -fill black -gravity South -annotate +0+15 'some text here' -resize 25% /home/2.pdf
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Re: add text by "annotate"

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See...

A Word about Vector Image formats
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/formats/#vector
Anthony Thyssen -- Webmaster for ImageMagick Example Pages
https://imagemagick.org/Usage/
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