Saturday, November 19, 2016

one-liner to make a script that creates posters for training videos with graphical text

one-liner to make a script that creates posters for training videos with graphical text

gabe@linux-ltcu:/data/tech> ls -1d Adv* | awk '{BASE="$0" ; print "cd \""$BASE"\"; convert -background tan -fill brown -font Utopia -size 600x900 -border 60x0 -bordercolor tan -gravity Center caption:\""$BASE"\" poster.jpg; cd ../"}' > make_posters.sh

Creating graphical text titles for Plex training extended personal media local media assets

gabe@linux-ltcu:~/testimages> convert -background brown -fill yellow  -font Utopia -size 600x800  -border 60x0 -bordercolor darkblue -gravity Center caption:"CBT Nuggets Photoshop for Developers"  CBT\ Nuggets\ Photoshop\ Developers.jpg

gabe@linux-ltcu:~/testimages> convert -background brown -fill yellow  -font Utopia -size 600x800  -border 60x0 -bordercolor darkblue -gravity Center caption:"CBT Nuggets PowerShell 3 Toolmaking  & Scripting"  CBT.Nuggets.PowerShell.3.Toolmaking.Scripting.gif 
gabe@linux-ltcu:~/testimages> convert -background brown -fill yellow  -font Utopia -size 250x350  -border 20x20 -bordercolor darkblue -gravity Center caption:"Cisco CCNA Data Center Unified Fabric UCS & Network Services"  Cisco.CCNA.Data.Center.United.Fabric.gif