--- ray/doc/man/man1/pcompos.1 2010/05/17 18:02:24 1.6 +++ ray/doc/man/man1/pcompos.1 2015/06/04 01:19:30 1.7 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" RCSid "$Id: pcompos.1,v 1.6 2010/05/17 18:02:24 greg Exp $" +.\" RCSid "$Id: pcompos.1,v 1.7 2015/06/04 01:19:30 greg Exp $" .TH PCOMPOS 1 12/18/97 RADIANCE .SH NAME pcompos - composite RADIANCE pictures. @@ -143,6 +143,15 @@ option will cause each image to be separated by at lea The .I "\-o x0 y0" option specifies a nonzero anchor point for the bottom left image. +If a negative value is given for ncols, then the rows are reversed, +so they start from the top rather than the bottom. +This gives a more natural ordering in most cases, but has the +side-effect of moving any labels from the upper-left of each placed +subimage to the lower-left. +Also, the +.I \-o +option is interpreted differently, where the y0 value is number of +pixels from the top (rather than the bottom). .PP The standard input can be specified with a hyphen ('-'). A command that produces a RADIANCE picture can be given in place of a file @@ -152,9 +161,10 @@ To put a copyright label at the bottom of a picture: .IP "" .2i psign Copyright 1987 | pcompos inp.hdr 0 0 +t .5 - 384 64 > out.hdr .PP -To make a catalog of images separated by white 10-pixel borders: +To make a catalog of images separated by white 10-pixel borders and +ordered four images per row starting from the top-left: .IP "" .2i -pcompos \-la \-a 4 \-s 10 \-b 1 1 1 dog*.hdr > alldogs.hdr +pcompos -la -a -4 -s 10 -b 1 1 1 dog*.hdr > alldogs.hdr .SH NOTES Since there is a limit to the number of open files and processes, large collections of images must be created in stages.