Tools to annotate and watermark articles pictures
This package depends on pygobject which provides the GTK Python bindings. Most
probably you have this package already installed as part of your system
(the package is called python3-gobject on Fedora, and python3-gi on Debian-based
distributions), however if you want to build everything from source, you should install
the required dependencies. On Fedora:
$ sudo dnf install python3-devel cairo-devel cairo-gobject-devel gobject-introspection-devel
On Debian/Debian-based distributions:
$ sudo apt-get install python3-dev libcairo2-dev libgirepository1.0-dev
The build and install the package directly from this repo you can run:
$ pip install git+https://github.com/egdoc/lxcfg-utils --user
Images can be annotated with the article title and subtitle using the lxcfg-annotate tool.
The tool shows a preview of the changes as they are made, and allows changing the title box
background color, the logo color, and applying a blur effect on the original image:
The tool can be launched by running:
$ lxcfg-annotate
Images can be watermarked for Linuxconfig.org and Linuxcareers.com by using the lxcfg-watermark tool:
usage: lxcfg-watermark [-h] [-l | -q ] [-s {linuxconfig,linuxcareers}] [-f {avif,webp}] image outfile
positional arguments:
image The image to watermark
outfile Name of the output image
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-l, --lossless Use lossless compression
-q , --quality Image quality (50 to 100)
-s {linuxconfig,linuxcareers}, --site {linuxconfig,linuxcareers}
The site watermark (default is linuxconfig)
-f {avif,webp}, --image-format {avif,webp} Output image format
Images modified with these tools are automatically converted and saved in webp or
avif format (default). No external dependencies are needed, only the Pillow library,
which is installed automatically.