Special Format Characters

The Magick::Image methods annotate, draw, label, and the template function montageImages support special format characters contained in the argument text. These format characters work similar to C's printf. Whenever a format character appears in the text, it is replaced with the equivalent attribute text. The available format characters are shown in the following table.

Format Characters

Format Character

Description

%b

file size

%d

directory

%e

filename extension

%f

filename

%h

height

%m

magick (e.g GIF)

%p

page number

%s

scene number

%t

top of filename

%w

width

%x

x resolution

%y

y resolution

\n

newline

\r

carriage return