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Making an 88x31 book-button using ImageMagick
Konstanty Sośnierz shows how to turn an entire book, Moby Dick, into an animated 88x31 web button with ImageMagick on a POSIX system: working within the tiny size, picking fonts, fetching and formatting the text, generating the GIF frames, and a Python helper for centred lines. The full result is a 4.2 MB GIF over 19 hours long.
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