: Automating Export of an image where the only thing that changes is the text layer? Good morning all... I am wondering if there is a way to automate export of an image that will have a variation

@Sent7350415

If you want to adjust font size:

ImageMagick:

You can use IM's convert to produce the label, measure it (see IM's identify utility) and if it's too big interpolate a better font size and retry. Once you have the label you use IM's compose to put the label over the picture.

GIMP:

In a Gimp script you can do the same, using the width of the generated text layer. An alternative is to produce the path/vectors from the text, and scale it to the required size and then select/fill it. But text at size 15 is not 3/4 of the font at size 20, there are subtleties, so iterating the font size will likely give better results.

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@Sent7350415

Gimp is overkill for this. There are plenty of ways to do this in the command line using a script based on ImageMagick.

If you have a file with the list of labels producing the script is a mere matter of passing a few global editor commands to change each line into a command that adds the label to the source image.

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