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montage(1)					       montage(1)

NAME
       montage - creates a composite image by combining several
       separate images

SYNOPSIS
       montage [ options ...] file [ [ options ...] file ...]
       output_file

DESCRIPTION
       montage creates a composite image by combining several
       separate images.	 The images are tiled on the composite
       image with the name of the image optionally appearing just
       below the individual tile.

       The composite image is constructed in the following
       manner.	First, each image specified on the command line,
       except for the last, is scaled to fit the maximum tile
       size.  The maximum tile size by default is 120x120.  It
       can be modified with the -geometry command line argument
       or X resource.  See OPTIONS for more information on
       command line arguments. See X(1) for more information on X
       resources.  Note that the maximum tile size need not be a
       square.	To respect the aspect ratio of each image append
       ~ to the geometry specification.

       Next the composite image is initialized with the color
       specified by the -background command line argument or X
       resource.  The width and height of the composite image is
       determined by the title specified, the maximum tile size,
       the number of tiles per row, the tile border width and
       height, the image border width, and the label height.  The
       number of tiles per row specifies how many images are to
       appear in each row of the composite image.  The default is
       to have 5 tiles in each row and 4 tiles in each column of
       the composite.  A specific value is specified with -tile.
       The tile border width and height, and the image border
       width defaults to the value of the X resource
       -borderwidth.  It can be changed with the -borderwidth or
       -geometry command line argument or X resource.  The label
       height is determined by the font you specify with the
       -font command line argument or X resource.  If you do not
       specify a font, a font is chosen that allows the name of
       the image to fit the maximum width of a tiled area.  The
       label colors is determined by the -background and
       -foreground command line argument or X resource.	 Note,
       that if the background and foreground colors are the same,
       labels will not appear.

       Initially, the composite image title is placed at the top
       if one is specified (refer to -foreground X resource).
       Next, each image is set onto the composite image,
       surrounded by its border color, with its name centered
       just below it.  The individual images are left-justified
       within the width of the tiled area.  The order of the

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       images is the same as they appear on the command line
       unless the images have a scene keyword.	If a scene number
       is specified in each image, then the images are tiled onto
       the composite in the order of their scene number.
       Finally, the last argument on the command line is the name
       assigned to the composite image.	 By default, the image is
       written in the MIFF format and can be viewed or printed
       with display(1).

       Note, that if the number of tiles exceeds the default
       number of 20 (5 per row, 4 per column), more than one
       composite image is created. To ensure a single image is
       produced, use -tile to increase the number of tiles to
       meet or exceed the number of input images.

       Finally, Finally, to create one or more empty spaces in
       the sequence of tiles, use the NULL image format.

EXAMPLES
       To create a montage of a cockatoo, a parrot, and a
       hummingbird and write it to a file called birds, use:

	    montage cockatoo.miff parrot.miff hummingbird.miff birds.miff

       To tile several bird images so that they are at most 256
       pixels in width and 192 pixels in height, surrounded by a
       red border, and separated by 10 pixels of background
       color, use:

	    montage -geometry 256x192+10+10 -bordercolor red birds.* montage.miff

       To create an unlabeled parrot image, 640 by 480 pixels,
       and surrounded by a border of black, use:

	    montage -geometry 640x480 -bordercolor black -label "" parrot.miff bird.miff

       To create an image of an eagle with a textured background,
       use:

	    montage -texture bumps.jpg eagle.jpg eagle.png

       To join several GIF images together without any extraneous
       graphics (e.g. no label, no shadowing, no surrounding tile
       frame), use:

	 montage +frame +shadow +label -geometry 50x50+0+0 -tile 5x1 *.gif joined.gif

OPTIONS
       -adjoin
	      join images into a single multi-image file.

       -blur <radius>x<sigma>
	      blue the image with a gaussian operator of the

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	      given radius and standard deviation (sigma).

       -cache threshold
	      megabytes of memory available to the pixel cache.

	      Image pixels are stored in memory until 80
	      megabytes of memory have been consumed.  Subsequent
	      pixel operations are cached on disk.  Operations to
	      memory are significantly faster but if your
	      computer does not have a sufficient amount of free
	      memory you may want to adjust this threshold value.

       -colors value
	      preferred number of colors in the image

	      The actual number of colors in the image may be
	      less than your request, but never more.  Note, this
	      is a color reduction option.  Images with less
	      unique colors than specified with this option will
	      have any duplicate or unused colors removed.  Refer
	      to quantize(5) for more details.

	      Note, options -dither, -colorspace, and -treedepth
	      affect the color reduction algorithm.

       -colorspace value
	      the type of colorspace: GRAY, OHTA, RGB,
	      Transparent, XYZ, YCbCr, YIQ, YPbPr, YUV, or CMYK.

	      Color reduction, by default, takes place in the RGB
	      color space.  Empirical evidence suggests that
	      distances in color spaces such as YUV or YIQ
	      correspond to perceptual color differences more
	      closely than do distances in RGB space.  These
	      color spaces may give better results when color
	      reducing an image.  Refer to quantize(5) for more
	      details.

	      The Transparent color space behaves uniquely in
	      that it preserves the matte channel of the image if
	      it exists.

	      The -colors or -monochrome option is required for
	      this option to take effect.

       -comment string
	      annotate an image with a comment.

	      By default, each image is commented with its file
	      name.  Use this option to assign a specific comment
	      to the image.  Optionally you can include the image
	      filename, type, width, height, or other image
	      attributes by embedding special format characters:

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		  %b   file size
		  %c   comment
		  %d   directory
		  %e   filename extention
		  %f   filename
		  %h   height
		  %i   input filename
		  %k   number of unique colors
		  %l   label
		  %m   magick
		  %n   number of scenes
		  %o   output filename
		  %p   page number
		  %q   quantum depth
		  %s   scene number
		  %t   top of filename
		  %u   unique temporary filename
		  %w   width
		  %x   x resolution
		  %y   y resolution
		  \n   newline
		  \r   carriage return

	      For example,

		   -comment "%m:%f %wx%h"

	      produces an image comment of MIFF:bird.miff 512x480
	      for an image titled bird.miff and whose width is
	      512 and height is 480.

	      If the first character of string is @, the image
	      comment is read from a file titled by the remaining
	      characters in the string.

       -compose operator
	      the type of image composition.

	      By default, each of the composite image pixels are
	      replaced by the corresponding image tile pixel. You
	      can choose an alternate composite operation:

		  Over
		  In
		  Out
		  Atop
		  Xor
		  Plus
		  Minus
		  Add
		  Subtract
		  Difference
		  Multiply
		  Bumpmap

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		  Copy
		  CopyRed
		  CopyGreen
		  CopyBlue
		  CopyOpacity

	      The operations behaves as follows:

       Over   The result will be the union of the two image
	      shapes, with composite image obscuring image in the
	      region of overlap.

       In     The result is simply composite image cut by the
	      shape of composite image window.	None of the image
	      data of image will be in the result.

       Out    The resulting image is composite image with the
	      shape of image cut out.

       Atop   The result is the same shape as image image, with
	      composite image obscuring image where the image
	      shapes overlap.  Note this differs from over
	      because the portion of composite image outside
	      image's shape does not appear in the result.

       Xor    The result is the image data from both composite
	      image and image that is outside the overlap region.
	      The overlap region will be blank.

       Plus   The result is just the sum of the image data.
	      Output values are cropped to 255 (no overflow).
	      This operation is independent of the matte
	      channels.

       Minus  The result of composite image - image, with
	      underflow cropped to zero.  The matte channel is
	      ignored (set to 255, full coverage).

       Add    The result of composite image + image, with
	      overflow wrapping around (mod 256).

       Subtract
	      The result of composite image - image, with
	      underflow wrapping around (mod 256).  The add and
	      subtract operators can be used to perform
	      reversible transformations.

       Difference
	      The result of abs(composite image - image).  This
	      is useful for comparing two very similar images.

       Multipy
	      The result of composite image * image.  This is

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	      useful for the creation of drop-shadows.

       Bumpmap
	      The result of image shaded by composite image.

       Copy   The resulting image is image replaced with
	      composite image.	Here the matte information is
	      ignored.

       CopyRed
	      The resulting image is the red layer in image
	      replaced with the red layer in composite image.
	      The other layers are copied untouched.

       CopyGreen
	      The resulting image is the green layer in image
	      replaced with the green layer in composite image.
	      The other layers are copied untouched.

       CopyBlue
	      The resulting image is the blue layer in image
	      replaced with the blue layer in composite image.
	      The other layers are copied untouched.

       CopyOpacity
	      The resulting image is the matte layer in image
	      replaced with the matte layer in composite image.
	      The other layers are copied untouched.

	      The image compositor requires a matte, or alpha
	      channel in the image for some operations.	 This
	      extra channel usually defines a mask which
	      represents a sort of a cookie-cutter for the image.
	      This is the case when matte is 255 (full coverage)
	      for pixels inside the shape, zero outside, and
	      between zero and 255 on the boundary.  If image
	      does not have a matte channel, it is initialized
	      with 0 for any pixel matching in color to pixel
	      location (0,0), otherwise 255 (to work properly
	      borderwidth must be 0).

       -compress type
	      the type of image compression: None, BZip, Fax,
	      Group4, JPEG, LZW, RLE, or Zip.

	      Specify +compress to store the binary image in an
	      uncompressed format.  The default is the
	      compression type of the specified image file.

       -crop <width>x<height>{+-}<x offset>{+-}<y offset>{%}
	      preferred size and location of the cropped image.
	      See X(1) for details about the geometry
	      specification.

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	      To specify a percentage width or height instead,
	      append %.	 For example to crop the image by ten
	      percent on all sides of the image, use -crop 10%.

	      Omit the x and y offset to generate one or more
	      subimages of a uniform size.

	      Use cropping to crop a particular area of an image.
	      Use -crop 0x0 to trim edges that are the background
	      color.  Add an x and y offset to leave a portion of
	      the trimmed edges with the image.	 The equivalent X
	      resource for this option is cropGeometry (class
	      CropGeometry).  See X RESOURCES for details.

       -density <width>x<height>
	      vertical and horizontal resolution in pixels of the
	      image.

	      This option specifies an image density when
	      decoding a Postscript or Portable Document page.
	      The default is 72 pixels per inch in the horizontal
	      and vertical direction.  This option is used in
	      concert with -page.

       -depth value
	      depth of the image.  This is the number of bits in
	      a pixel.	The only acceptable values are 8 or 16.

       -display host:display[.screen]
	      specifies the X server to contact; see X(1).

	      Specify +display if an X server is not available.
	      The label font is obtained from the X server.  If
	      none is available, the composite image will not
	      have labels. Since the X server is necessary to
	      read X resources, all options must be set via the
	      command line when +display is specified.

       -dispose method
	      GIF disposal method.

	      Here are the valid methods:

		   0	 No disposal specified.
		   1	 Do not dispose between frames.
		   2	 Overwrite frame with background color from header.
		   3	 Overwrite with previous frame.

       -dither
	      apply Floyd/Steinberg error diffusion to the image.

	      The basic strategy of dithering is to trade
	      intensity resolution for spatial resolution by
	      averaging the intensities of several neighboring

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	      pixels.  Images which suffer from severe contouring
	      when reducing colors can be improved with this
	      option.

	      The -colors or -monochrome option is required for
	      this option to take effect.

	      Use +dither to render Postscript without text or
	      graphic aliasing.

       -draw string
	      annotate an image with one or more graphic
	      primitives.

	      Use this option to annotate an image with one or
	      more graphic primitives.	The primitives include

		   rectangle
		   circle
		   ellipse
		   polygon
		   color
		   matte
		   text
		   image

	      Rectangle, color, matte, text, and image require an
	      upper left and lower right coordinate.  Circle
	      requires the center coordinate and a coordinate on
	      the outer edge.  Use Ellipse to draw a partial
	      ellipse centered at the given point with the x-axis
	      and y-axis radius and start and end of arc in
	      degrees (e.g. 100,100 100,150 0,360). Finally,
	      polygon requires three or more coordinates defining
	      its boundaries.  Coordinates are integers separated
	      by an optional comma.  For example, to define a
	      circle centered at 100,100 that extends to 150,150
	      use:

		   -draw 'circle 100,100 150,150'

	      Use color to change the color of a pixel.	 Follow
	      the pixel coordinate with a method:

		   point
		   replace
		   floodfill
		   filltoborder
		   reset

	      Consider the target pixel as that specified by your
	      coordinate.  The point method recolors the target
	      pixel.  The replace method recolors any pixel that
	      matches the color of the target pixel.  Floodfill

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	      recolors any pixel that matches the color of the
	      target pixel and is a neighbor.  Whereas
	      filltoborder recolors any neighbor pixel that is
	      not the border color. Finally, reset recolors all
	      pixels.

	      Use matte to the change the pixel matte value to
	      transparent.  Follow the pixel coordinate with a
	      method (see the color primitive for a description
	      of methods).  The point method changes the matte
	      value of the target pixel.  The replace method
	      changes the matte value of any pixel that matches
	      the color of the target pixel.  Floodfill changes
	      the matte value of any pixel that matches the color
	      of the target pixel and is a neighbor. Whereas
	      filltoborder changes the matte value of any
	      neighbor pixel that is not the border color.
	      Finally reset changes the matte value of all
	      pixels.

	      Use text to annotate an image with text.	Follow
	      the text coordinates with a string.  If the string
	      has embedded spaces, enclose it in double quotes.
	      Optionally you can include the image filename,
	      type, width, height, or other image attributes by
	      embedding special format characters.  See -comment
	      for details.

	      For example,

		   -draw 'text 100,100 "%m:%f %wx%h"'

	      annotates the image with MIFF:bird.miff 512x480 for
	      an image titled bird.miff and whose width is 512
	      and height is 480.

	      If the first character of the string is @, the text
	      is read from a file titled by the remaining
	      characters in the string.

	      Use image to composite an image with another image.
	      Follow the image primitive with a composite
	      operator, image position, image size, and filename:

		   -draw 'image Over 100,100 225,225 image.jpg'

	      If the first character of string is @, the text is
	      read from a file titled by the remaining characters
	      in the string.

	      You can set the primitive color, font color, and
	      font bounding box color with -pen, -font, and -box
	      respectively.  Options are processed in command
	      line order so be sure to use -pen before the -draw


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	      option.

       -filter type
	      use this type of filter when resizing an image.

	      Use this option to affect the resizing operation of
	      an image (see -geometry).	 Choose from these
	      filters:

		   Point
		   Box
		   Triangle
		   Hermite
		   Hanning
		   Hamming
		   Blackman
		   Gaussian
		   Quadratic
		   Cubic
		   Catrom
		   Mitchell
		   Lanczos
		   Bessel
		   Sinc

	      The default filter is Lanczos.

       -frame surround the image with an ornamental border.

	      The color of the border is specified with the
	      -mattecolor command line option.	If no frame is
	      desired, use +frame.

       -font name
	      use this font when annotating the image with text.

	      If the font is a fully qualified X server font
	      name, the font is obtained from an X server (e.g.
	      -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*).
	      To use a TrueType font, precede the TrueType
	      filename with a @ (e.g.  @times.ttf).  Otherwise,
	      specify a Postscript, X11, or TrueType font (e.g.
	      helvetica).

       -gamma value
	      level of gamma correction.

	      The same color image displayed on two different
	      workstations may look different due to differences
	      in the display monitor.  Use gamma correction to
	      adjust for this color difference.	 Reasonable
	      values extend from 0.8 to 2.3.

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	      You can apply separate gamma values to the red,
	      green, and blue channels of the image with a gamma
	      value list delineated with slashes (i.e.
	      1.7/2.3/1.2).

	      Use +gamma to set the image gamma level without
	      actually adjusting the image pixels.  This option
	      is useful if the image is of a known gamma but not
	      set as an image attribute (e.g. PNG images).

       -geometry <width>x<height>{+-}<x offset>{+-}<y
       offset>{%}{@}{!}{<}{>}
	      preferred tile and border size of each tile of the
	      composite image.

	      By default, the width and height are maximum
	      values.  That is, the image is expanded or
	      contracted to fit the width and height value while
	      maintaining the aspect ratio of the image.  Append
	      an exclamation point to the geometry to force the
	      image size to exactly the size you specify.  For
	      example, if you specify 640x480! the image width is
	      set to 640 pixels and height to 480.  If only one
	      factor is specified, both the width and height
	      assume the value.

	      Use @ to specify the maximum area in pixels of an
	      image.

	      Use > to change the dimensions of the image only if
	      its size exceeds the geometry specification.  <
	      resizes the image only if its dimensions is less
	      than the geometry specification.	For example, if
	      you specify '640x480>' and the image size is
	      512x512, the image size does not change.	However,
	      if the image is 1024x1024, it is resized to
	      640x480.

	      Each image is surrounded by a border whose size in
	      pixels is specified as <border width> and <border
	      height> and whose color is the background color.
	      By default, the tile size is 256x256 and there is
	      no border.

	      The equivalent X resource for this option is
	      imageGeometry (class ImageGeometry).  See X
	      RESOURCES for details.

       -gravity direction
	      direction image gravitates to within a tile.  See
	      X(1) for details about the gravity specification.

	      A tile of the composite image is a fixed width and
	      height.  However, the image within the tile may not

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	      fill it completely (see -geometry).  The direction
	      you choose specifies where to position the image
	      within the tile.	For example Center gravity forces
	      the image to be centered within the tile.	 By
	      default, the image gravity is Center.

       -interlace type
	      the type of interlacing scheme: None, Line, Plane,
	      or Partition.  The default is None.

	      This option is used to specify the type of
	      interlacing scheme for raw image formats such as
	      RGB or YUV.  No means do not interlace
	      (RGBRGBRGBRGBRGBRGB...), Line uses scanline
	      interlacing (RRR...GGG...BBB...RRR...GGG...BBB...),
	      and Plane uses plane interlacing
	      (RRRRRR...GGGGGG...BBBBBB...).  Partition is like
	      plane except the different planes are saved to
	      individual files (e.g.  image.R, image.G, and
	      image.B).

	      Use Line, or Plane to create an interlaced GIF or
	      progressive JPEG image.

       -label name
	      assign a label to an image.

	      By default, each image is labeled with its file
	      name.  Use this option to assign a specific label
	      to the image.   Optionally you can include the
	      image filename, type, width, height, or other image
	      attributes by embedding special format characters.
	      See -comment for details.

	      For example,

		   -label "%m:%f %wx%h"

	      produces an image label of MIFF:bird.miff 512x480
	      for an image titled bird.miff and whose width is
	      512 and height is 480.

	      If the first character of string is @, the image
	      label is read from a file titled by the remaining
	      characters in the string.

       -matte store matte channel if the image has one otherwise
	      create an opaque one.

       -mode type
	      the type of montage: Frame, Unframe, Concatentate.
	      The default is Unframe.

	      This option is for convenience.  You can obtain the

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	      desired result by setting individual options (e.g.
	      Unframe is equivalent to +frame +shadow
	      +borderwidth).

       -monochrome
	      transform the image to black and white.

       -page <width>x<height>{+-}<x offset>{+-}<y
       offset>{%}{!}{<}{>}
	      preferred size and location of an image canvas.

	      Use this option to specify the dimensions of the
	      Postscript page in dots per inch or a TEXT page in
	      pixels.  The choices for a Postscript page are:

		     11x17	   792	1224
		     Ledger	  1224	 792
		     Legal	   612	1008
		     Letter	   612	 792
		     LetterSmall   612	 792
		     ArchE	  2592	3456
		     ArchD	  1728	2592
		     ArchC	  1296	1728
		     ArchB	   864	1296
		     ArchA	   648	 864
		     A0		  2380	3368
		     A1		  1684	2380
		     A2		  1190	1684
		     A3		   842	1190
		     A4		   595	 842
		     A4Small	   595	 842
		     A5		   421	 595
		     A6		   297	 421
		     A7		   210	 297
		     A8		   148	 210
		     A9		   105	 148
		     A10	    74	 105
		     B0		  2836	4008
		     B1		  2004	2836
		     B2		  1418	2004
		     B3		  1002	1418
		     B4		   709	1002
		     B5		   501	 709
		     C0		  2600	3677
		     C1		  1837	2600
		     C2		  1298	1837
		     C3		   918	1298
		     C4		   649	 918
		     C5		   459	 649
		     C6		   323	 459
		     Flsa	   612	 936
		     Flse	   612	 936
		     HalfLetter	   396	 612

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	      For convenience you can specify the page size by
	      media (e.g.  A4, Ledger, etc.).  Otherwise, -page
	      behaves much like -geometry (e.g. -page
	      letter+43+43>).

	      To position a GIF image, use -page {+-}<x
	      offset>{+-}<y offset> (e.g. -page +100+200).

	      For a Postscript page, the image is sized as in
	      -geometry and positioned relative to the lower left
	      hand corner of the page by {+-}<x offset>{+-}<y
	      offset>.	Use -page 612x792>, for example, to
	      center the image within the page.	 If the image
	      size exceeds the Postscript page, it is reduced to
	      fit the page.

	      The default page dimensions for a TEXT image is
	      612x792.

	      This option is used in concert with -density.

       -pen color
	      set the color of the font.

	      See X(1) for details about the color specification.

       -pointsize value
	      pointsize of the Postscript, X11, or TrueType font.

       -quality value
	      JPEG/MIFF/PNG compression level.

	      For the JPEG image format, quality is 0 (worst) to
	      100 (best).  The default quality is 75.

	      Quality for the MIFF and PNG image format sets the
	      amount of image compression (quality / 10) and
	      filter-type (quality % 10).  Compression quality
	      values range from 0 (worst) to 100 (best).  If
	      filter-type is 4 or less, the specified filter-type
	      is used for all scanlines:

		  0: none
		  1: sub
		  2: up
		  3: average
		  4: Paeth

	      If filter-type is 5, adaptive filtering is used
	      when quality is greater than 50 and the image does
	      not have a color map, otherwise no filtering is
	      used.

	      If filter-type is 6 or more, adaptive filtering

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	      with minimum-sum-of-absolute-values is used.

	      The default is quality is 75.  Which means nearly
	      the best compression with adaptive filtering.

	      For further information, see the PNG specification
	      (RFC 2083), <http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR>.

       -rotate degrees{<}{>}
	      apply Paeth image rotation to the image.

	      Use > to rotate the image only if its width exceeds
	      the height.  < rotates the image only if its width
	      is less than the height.	For example, if you
	      specify -90> and the image size is 480x640, the
	      image is not rotated by the specified angle.
	      However, if the image is 640x480, it is rotated by
	      -90 degrees.

	      Empty triangles left over from rotating the image
	      are filled with the color defined as bordercolor
	      (class borderColor).

       -scene value
	      image scene number.

       -shadow
	      add a shadow beneath a tile to simulate depth.

       -sharpen <radius>x<sigma>
	      sharpen the image with a gaussian operator of the
	      given radius and standard deviation (sigma).

       -size <width>x<height>{+offset}
	      width and height of the image.

	      Use this option to specify the width and height of
	      raw images whose dimensions are unknown such as
	      GRAY, RGB, or CMYK.  In addition to width and
	      height, use -size to skip any header information in
	      the image or tell the number of colors in a MAP
	      image file, (e.g. -size 640x512+256).

       -texture filename
	      name of texture to tile onto the image background.

       -tile <width>x<height>
	      specifies how many tiles are to appear in each row
	      and column of the composite image.

	      Specify the number of tiles per row with width and
	      tiles per column with height.  For example if you
	      want 1 tile in each row and a maximum of 10 tiles
	      in the composite image, use -tile 1x10.  The

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	      default is to have 5 tiles in each row and 4 tiles
	      in each column of the composite.

       -transparent color
	      make this color transparent within the image.

       -treedepth value
	      Normally, this integer value is zero or one.  A
	      zero or one tells montage to choose a optimal tree
	      depth for the color reduction algorithm.

	      An optimal depth generally allows the best
	      representation of the source image with the fastest
	      computational speed and the least amount of memory.
	      However, the default depth is inappropriate for
	      some images.  To assure the best representation,
	      try values between 2 and 8 for this parameter.
	      Refer to quantize(5) for more details.

	      The -colors or -monochrome option is required for
	      this option to take effect.

       -type type
	      set the image type: Bilevel, Grayscale, Palette,
	      PaletteMatte, TrueColor, TrueColorMatte,
	      ColorSeparation, ColorSeparationMatte, or Optimize.

       -verbose
	      print detailed information about the image.

	      This information is printed: image scene number;
	      image name;  image size; the image class
	      (DirectClass or PseudoClass);  the total number of
	      unique colors;  and the number of seconds to read
	      and write the image.

       In addition to those listed above, you can specify these
       standard X resources as command line options:
       -background, -bordercolor, -borderwidth, -font,
       -foreground, -mattecolor, or -title.  See X RESOURCES for
       details.

       Options are processed in command line order.  Any option
       you specify on the command line remains in effect until it
       is explicitly changed by specifying the option again with
       a different effect.  For example, to montage two images,
       the first with 32 colors and the second with only 16
       colors, use:

	    montage -colors 32 cockatoo.1 -colors 16 cockatoo.2
       cockatoo.miff

       By default, the image format is determined by its magic
       number. To specify a particular image format, precede the

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       filename with an image format name and a colon (i.e.
       ps:image) or specify the image type as the filename suffix
       (i.e. image.ps).	 See convert(1) for a list of valid image
       formats.

       When you specify X as your image type, the filename has
       special meaning.	 It specifies an X window by id, name, or
       root.  If no filename is specified, the window is selected
       by clicking the mouse in the desired window.

       Specify input_file as - for standard input, output_file as
       - for standard output.  If input_file has the extension .Z
       or .gz, the file is uncompressed with uncompress or gunzip
       respectively.  If output_file has the extension .Z or .gz,
       the file size is compressed using with compress or gzip
       respectively.  Finally, precede the image file name with |
       to pipe to or from a system command.

       Use an optional index enclosed in brackets after a file
       name to specify a desired subimage of a multi-resolution
       image format like Photo CD (e.g. img0001.pcd[4]) or a
       range for MPEG images (e.g. video.mpg[50-75]).  A subimage
       specification can be disjoint (e.g. image.tiff[2,7,4]).
       For raw images, specify a subimage with a geometry (e.g.
       -size 640x512 image.rgb[320x256+50+50]).

       Single images are written with the filename you specify.
       However, multi-part images (e.g. a multi-page Postscript
       document with +adjoin specified) are written with the
       filename followed by a period (.) and the scene number.
       You can change this behavior by embedding a printf format
       specification in the file name.	For example,

	    image%02d.miff

       montages files image00.miff, image01.miff, etc.

       Prepend an at sign (@) to a filename to read a list of
       image filenames from that file.	This is convenient in the
       event you have too many image filenames to fit on the
       command line.

       Note, a composite MIFF image displayed to an X server with
       display behaves differently than other images.  You can
       think of the composite as a visual image directory.
       Choose a particular tile of the composite and press a
       button to display it.  See display(1) and miff(5) for
       details.

X RESOURCES
       montage options can appear on the command line or in your
       X resource file.	 Options on the command line supersede
       values specified in your X resource file.  See X(1) for
       more information on X resources.

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       All montage options have a corresponding X resource.  In
       addition, montage uses the following X resources:

       background (class Background)
	      Specifies the preferred color to use for the
	      composite image background.  The default is #ccc.

       borderColor (class BorderColor)
	      Specifies the preferred color to use for the
	      composite image border.  The default is #ccc.

       borderWidth (class BorderWidth)
	      Specifies the width in pixels of the composite
	      image border.  The default is 2.

       font (class Font)
	      Specifies the name of the preferred font to use
	      when displaying text within the composite image.
	      The default is 9x15, fixed, or 5x8 determined by
	      the composite image size.

       foreground (class Foreground)
	      Specifies the preferred color to use for text
	      within the composite image.  The default is black.

       matteColor (class MatteColor)
	      Specify the color of an image frame.  A 3D  effect
	      is achieved  by using highlight and shadow colors
	      derived from this color.	The default value is
	      #ccc.

       title (class Title)
	      This resource specifies the title to be placed at
	      the top of the composite image.  The default is not
	      to place a title at the top of the composite image.

ENVIRONMENT
       display
	      To get the default host, display number, and
	      screen.

SEE ALSO
       display(1), animate(1), import(1), mogrify(1), convert(1),
       composite(1)

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2001 ImageMagick Studio, a non-profit
       organization dedicated to making software imaging
       solutions freely available.

       Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any
       person obtaining a copy of this software and associated
       documentation files ("ImageMagick"), to deal in
       ImageMagick without restriction, including without

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       limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge,
       publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of
       ImageMagick, and to permit persons to whom the ImageMagick
       is furnished to do so, subject to the following
       conditions:

       The above copyright notice and this permission notice
       shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of
       ImageMagick.

       The software is provided "as is", without warranty of any
       kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the
       warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular
       purpose and noninfringement.  In no event shall
       ImageMagick Studio be liable for any claim, damages or
       other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort or
       otherwise, arising from, out of or in connection with
       ImageMagick or the use or other dealings in ImageMagick.

       Except as contained in this notice, the name of the
       ImageMagick Studio shall not be used in advertising or
       otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings in
       ImageMagick without prior written authorization from the
       ImageMagick Studio.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
       The MIT X Consortium for making network transparent
       graphics a reality.

       Michael Halle, Spatial Imaging Group at MIT, for the
       initial implementation of Alan Paeth's image rotation
       algorithm.

       David Pensak, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, for
       providing a computing environment that made this program
       possible.

       Paul Raveling, USC Information Sciences Institute, for the
       original idea of using space subdivision for the color
       reduction algorithm.

AUTHORS
       John Cristy, ImageMagick Studio

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