Imagemagick: how to add border with text just below the image?

Question

I need to add borders around photos and below the photo I want to append text. However, so far I can either add borders or add text, but they don't work togeter.

What I mean is, for appending text:

convert photo.jpg -background White label:"A nice memory" -background White -gravity east -append result.jpg

This adds a white strip with text at the bottom right of the image:

and for adding border:

convert photo.jpg -bordercolor Green -border 5%x10% result.jpg

It adds a nice green border around the photo. However, if I want them together:

convert photo.jpg -bordercolor Green -border 5%x10% -background White label:"A nice memory" -background White -gravity east -append result.jpg

it first adds a border, then an extra strip of space below the lower border with text. I guess I have to explicitly tell it to have border and text together. Is this possible?

Expected:

(Important: I want the text to be right aligned with the photo as if there's no border)

Thanks!

A picture of what you have and another picture of what you want would be far better than several paragraphs describing what doesn't work... — Mark Setchell, Dec 30 '17 at 21:49

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 30 '17 at 22:46

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convert input.jpg -bordercolor Green -border 5%x10% -gravity southeast -annotate +0+0 "Some text" result.jpg

answered Dec 30 '17 at 22:46

Bonzo

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Thanks! This works mostly, I'll need to figure out how to right-align the text with the photo itself, not with the border. – Heuristic Dec 30 '17 at 23:04
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If you had a fixed border rather than a % you could adjust the +0+0 to something like -20+0 in the -annotate – Bonzo Dec 30 '17 at 23:17

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 31 '17 at 00:32

In Imagemagick 6, you can do it as follows (unix syntax):

infile="logo:"
offx=`convert $infile -format "%[fx:5*w/100]" info:`
offy=`convert $infile -format "%[fx:2.5*w/100]" info:`
convert $infile -bordercolor Green -border 5%x10% -font Arial -pointsize 18 -gravity southeast -annotate +${offx}+${offy} "Some text" result.jpg

In Imagemagick 7, you can do it as:

magick logo: -bordercolor Green -border 5%x10% -font Arial -pointsize 18 -gravity southeast -annotate +%[fx:5*w/100]+%[fx:(10/4)*h/100] "Some text" result.jpg

The offset (1/4 value) may need to be adjusted for the pint-size so that the text will be centered vertically in the space provided.

The image, logo:, is an internal Imagemagick image which requires the colon.

Imagemagick: how to add border with text just below the image?

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