combining images

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:58:09PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
>I am trying to use combine to just join together two images of similar width
>but different length. I want the resulting image to be a simple
>combination of the two, top to bottom, like so:

The ImageMagick ``montage'' program my be just the ticket for
this is you want to script it.

>   -------
>  | Image1|
>  |       |
>   ------- 
>and 
>   -------
>  | Image2|
>  |       |
>  |       |
>   ------- 
>The desired result is :
>
>   -------
>  | Image1|
>  |       |
>  | Image2|
>  |       |
>  |       |
>   ------- 
>
>
>Combine seems to work by overlying the second image on the first ( or
>vice versa).  If you specify an offset, you wind up with image two getting
>truncated. That is to say, the size of the canvas is the size of image1.
>
>I could solve my problem if I could figure out how to increase the canvas
>size of image one to accommodate image 2.
>
>
>Any insight appreciated,
>
>Joel
>
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