How to underlay circle with mogrify in one command

Question

I wrote this script and it's working fine, but I would like to do all of it in one step on the fly, without the extra temp image.

explanation: i have a lot of broken image files and i want to draw a circle underneath each image. for this i have to create a temporary image circle.png and then use "image DstOver" to place it below each of the images:

convert -size 200x200 xc:transparent -fill red -draw 'translate 100,100 circle 0,0 100,0' circle.png
mogrify -draw "image DstOver 0,0 0,0 'circle.png'" images/*.png

Something along the lines of:

mogrify -fill red -draw "DstOver translate 100,100 circle 0,0 100,0" images/*.png

But this is always giving me an error, no matter where i place the DstOver:

mogrify: non-conforming drawing primitive definition `DstOver' @ error/draw.c/DrawImage/3169.

Answer 1

Composition operators like "DstOver" are only used with the "image" primitive of "-draw". Just omit it. See the "-draw" entry in the ImageMagick commandline documentation.

You can have multiple "-draw " options, some drawing figures such as "circle ..." and others such as "image DstOver ...".