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With Gimp, I saw that the centre of the red box was roughly 300 pixels left of the centre of the image, and 150 pixels lower. You should use accurate numbers. My happiness does not last long…The alignment gets messy if the text is to short…There's a more precise way to deal with it that adjust to th ...

snibgo wrote:Find the offset of the centre of the red box with respect to the centre of the image. This is roughly -300, +150

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convert example.jpg -pointsize 100 -gravity Center -annotate -300+150 "Hello world" y.png

Hi snibgo. It worked. How do you get -300+150 values?

Bonzo wrote:Is the "marked area" bordered by the red box?

yes Bonzo…it's the red area. It's driving me crazy!

yes Bonzo…the red area...

Hi, how can I write a centered text in a portion of a imported image? I've tried everything but couldn't position the text using gravity center. The text is dynamic… This is the example image. The text the user types in must appear centred in the marked area (red square)… http://www.rodrigoperes.com. ...