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SBT · 12-06-2011, 08:21 AM

You can also use ImageMagick. That makes it easy to generate standardized covers from the command line. The following unix shell script generates a bare-bones cover, save it as 'generatecover', make it executable, and run it as
./generatecover "<author>" "<title>"
, and it'll generate a cover.jpg file:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
author="$1"
title="$2"
font="Times-Roman"
convert -size 600x800 xc:khaki -gravity Center -fill black -font $font \
 -pointsize 72 -annotate +0-100 "${author}" \
 -pointsize 64 -annotate +0+100 "${title}" cover.jpg

12-06-2011, 08:21 AM	#5
SBT Fanatic Posts: 580 Karma: 810184 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Norway Device: prs-t1, tablet, Nook Simple, assorted kindles, iPad	You can also use ImageMagick. That makes it easy to generate standardized covers from the command line. The following unix shell script generates a bare-bones cover, save it as 'generatecover', make it executable, and run it as ./generatecover "<author>" "<title>" , and it'll generate a cover.jpg file: Code: #!/bin/sh author="$1" title="$2" font="Times-Roman" convert -size 600x800 xc:khaki -gravity Center -fill black -font $font \ -pointsize 72 -annotate +0-100 "${author}" \ -pointsize 64 -annotate +0+100 "${title}" cover.jpg Attached Thumbnails