best tool for creating a marquee animation on the Linux command line

I'm not sure if this is the best group for this question. I apologies if
not and would appreciate leads to more appropriate groups.

I wanted to create a infinitely scrolling "filmstrip" or marquee from a
set of images. I'm not sure what's the right word; but basically I have
a graph describing several devices and I have pictures of each device.
I'd like to display the graph and at the same time have a scrolling
horizontal bar with the device-images above it.

What could be the best tool to do this. Preferably command line and
amenable to automation. Image Magik is the only relevant suite I know of
and I couldn't find any similar capabilities in there (maybe I just did
not read the manual well enough!).

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Rahul

Rahul wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is the best group for this question. I apologies if
> not and would appreciate leads to more appropriate groups.
>
> I wanted to create a infinitely scrolling "filmstrip" or marquee from a
> set of images. I'm not sure what's the right word; but basically I have
> a graph describing several devices and I have pictures of each device.
> I'd like to display the graph and at the same time have a scrolling
> horizontal bar with the device-images above it.
>
> What could be the best tool to do this. Preferably command line and
> amenable to automation. Image Magik is the only relevant suite I know of
> and I couldn't find any similar capabilities in there (maybe I just did
> not read the manual well enough!).
>


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Web page? Video? Animated gif? What's it for?

Cork Soaker <Thunderbird@Hardy.invalid> wrote in news:53lcj5-9v9.ln1
@quarkbomb.dyndns.org:

>
> Web page? Video? Animated gif? What's it for?
>

For now its for embedding in a presentation. Later might post it on a
webpage too. So, for portability I'd prefer a generic format. Say a movie
(avi, mpeg etc.) or an agif. Flash, java etc. sort of tie you up to the
web.


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Rahul

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:48:53 +0000, Rahul wrote:

> Cork Soaker <Thunderbird@Hardy.invalid> wrote in news:53lcj5-9v9.ln1
> @quarkbomb.dyndns.org:
>
>>
>> Web page? Video? Animated gif? What's it for?
>>
>
> For now its for embedding in a presentation. Later might post it on a
> webpage too. So, for portability I'd prefer a generic format. Say a movie
> (avi, mpeg etc.) or an agif. Flash, java etc. sort of tie you up to the
> web.

For an animated gif, from the imagemagick collection.

animate -delay 15 image1.png -delay 15 image2.png -delay 15 image3.png ...

delay is optional, you can adjust speed once it's loaded. It's just nice
to have it pre-adjusted if it's something you're testing a lot. And you
might want to have one delay longer than all others. If it's just text,
you could use the <MARQUE> html tag. Not that it's well supported across
browsers. But it's but one option.

I don't know of any linux based flash authoring tools.

Java is one option, but it's always a gamble if the host machine has it
installed, and enabled, and a compatible version, 64 bit Oh My... Blah
blah blah.

Gif would probably be the most compatible for embedded documents. For
html documents, there's always Marque, or Javascript methods. Depending
on how semi-techie author friendly you want to be. And whether you care
about it being universally compatible.