🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello khoros group.  I have a few questions relating to overlays,
annotations etc.
1. I have numerous image files, and annotation files, with one
annotation file per image.  I want to combine the annotations with the
images.  At the moment, I can do this by going into editimage, reading
in the annotations and using COMBINE OVERLAYS.  But, is there any way
to do this from the command line, without going in to editimage.  The
ideal way for me would be to turn the ascii annotation file into an 
image file and use the -ov argument to editimage, or just to combine
the two files (e.g., with vadd or vand).  However, in order to do this
I need to get the ascii annotation file interpreted as an image.
Therefore, is there any way either to get the annotation file into 
editimage from the CLUI (some sort of -ann option, which appears not
to exist) or else to translate the annotation file into an image file.

2. At the moment I use COMBINE OVERLAYs within editimage, and write
out the resulting file.  This always appears to be of type byte, even
when the input to editimage was short.  Is this because COMBINE gets
the image *as displayed* and I am working with an 8 bit screen?  Is
there any way I can get the combined data out with as much resolution
as the input data.  The transfer to byte is not a real problem for
this application, but it's a pity to lose resolution if I can avoid
it.

Many thanks for all your help.

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