I'm looking for an xpm icon to use as a placeholder until I make something better.
Are there any linux command line tools that create blank images of specified dimensions? Like people use touch
to create blank text files.
The convert
command from ImageMagick can be used:
To create a 32x32 image with a white background:
convert -size 32x32 xc:white empty.jpg
To create a 32x32 image with a transparent background:
convert -size 32x32 xc:transparent empty2.png
-density
setting will have no effect when creating blank images
PNG32:empty.png
to get a 32 bit png instead of a 1 bit greyscale png.
If you do not have ImageMagick installed, you can use a short Perl script:
use GD::Simple;
my $i = GD::Simple->new(32,32);
open my $out, '>', 'empty.png' or die;
binmode $out;
print $out $i->png;
Using Python:
from PIL import Image
img = Image.new('RGB', (32,32), color='white')
img.save('empty.png')
quit()