commit 6bf921b112f844413c2ded7bb9b582cf440ec0fd
parent 0aa2c1f79badb244fc0721a35a0b345c9a34c02b
Author: lumidify <nobody@lumidify.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 19:53:57 +0200
Add notes to README
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1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/README b/README
@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ crop large amounts of pictures when digitizing books, but it can be
used for cropping single pictures as well. There are probably many
bugs still. Oh, and the code probably isn't that great.
+Note that the whole image is redrawn when changing the selection
+because I'm too dumb to change that, so it may occasionally lag
+a little bit. It barely lags on my nice laptop with a single-core
+Intel Celeron 2.00 Ghz from 2008, though, so that shouldn't be a
+huge problem.
+
Just start it with "croptool <image files>" and a window will pop up.
Initially, no image is shown, so you first have to press enter or
right arrow to go to the first image. When an image is shown, you can
@@ -31,7 +37,10 @@ scaled according to how much the image was scaled for display.
When the window is closed, the ImageMagick command (mogrify -crop...)
for cropping each of the pictures that had a selection box defined
-is printed (including the image currently being edited).
+is printed (including the image currently being edited). If the box
+was completely outside of the image, nothing is printed. If only part
+of it was outside of the image, it is adjusted so that only the part
+inside the image is printed.
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