Quick hack to print images with ImageMagick

[Andy Bair]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 12:23:25PM -0500, VirginSnow at vfemail.net wrote:
> 
> Have you ever had an image and said "I want to print that."  As a
> Linux user, you know there's about a billion different ways to do
> *anything*, so you ask yourself "How easiest to do that?"
> 
> "Do I open up firefox, print to file, fit to page?  Do I use
> ImageMagic's 'display' command and save to Postscript?  Should I load
> the 10,000lb gorilla named 'The Gimp' to create the Postscript?"
> 
> As it turns out, many of these will get the scale and/or position of
> the image on the page WRONG.  They'll either convert the image to
> postscript pixel-for-pixel, scale the width but not the height, and/or
> position the image in the lower-left corner of the page.  Fortunately,
> there's a really quick & easy hack (as the message subject promises)
> to get a reasonable result:
> 
>  $ convert -verbose -rotate 180 -page Letter foo.gif foo.ps
> 
> This image will come out on your printer upside down, but it'll be
> nicely scaled to fit on Letter-size paper.

That's very cool.  I've used convert to "convert" many things and it's a
great utility with lots of good options.

> 
> [Keywords: quick easily print image convert postscript ps imagemagick
>            convert correct scale resize fit shrink letter page size]
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