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Added filteres but they do not work

Asked by Douglas Kaynor

I added a couple of filters to ~/.config/variety/variety.conf but they do not work. A button for filter9 shows up in preferences but filter10 does not. Neither one works.

filter9 = True|Fit screen|-size 500x500
filter10 = True|Add text|-pointsize 30 -draw "text 50,35 Hello"

Also is it possible to add web download sources such as http://www.panoramio.com/user/692308 to the sources list?

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Peter Levi (peterlevi) said : 		#1

Surround the second filter in apostrophes (that's the way to escape the quotes inside a config file):
filter10 = 'True|Add text|-pointsize 30 -draw "text 50,35 Hello"'
Otherwise the config file parser cannot parse it, that's why it's missing from the GUI.

Both filters don't work even when you run them from the commandline. Probably you want -scale instead of -size and for the text you probably want to read here: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#caption.

Be sure to get them to work properly when run directly from a terminal before you try them in Variety.

Panoramio is not a supported image source (unless it provides media RSS feeds, but I didn't find any).

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Peter Levi (peterlevi) said : 		#3

User reopened by mistake.