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| Re: annotating images with text (potential dumb question here) [message #43570 is a reply to message #43569] |
Thu, 21 April 2005 10:38  |
Benjamin Hornberger
Messages: 258
Registered: March 2004
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Jeff N. wrote:
> Hi everyone,
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> I was just looking through the help files looking for an easy way to
> add some text to an image. The basic idea of what I want to do is to
> simply add a time stamp at the bottom of an image. Is there an easy way
> to do this (and when I say easy I mean without going through object
> graphics, which is what I suspect is the way I would have to do it :)
> )? I know that you can use ANNOTATE, which brings up an interactive
> tool, and you can also use iTools, but I'd like to do it
> programmatically. ImageMagick has a (relatively) simple command to do
> this, but the images are generated with IDL so it makes a lot more
> sense to use IDL if i can.
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> Jeff
>
You have to use the routine with the clear, obvious and intuitive name
XYOUTS.
Benjamin
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