On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Jonathan Gift wrote:
> With the cal 2001 command I can get the year's calendar displayed on a
> terminal or shot to a file. Q: How can I use that as background, as in
> paste?
Hmm. The problem is getting ASCII text to an image. I am sure that my
following suggestions aren't very good, but
(1) the "fax" command will convert text into a faxible TIFF, so
cal 2001 > cal-2001.txt
fax make cal-2001.txt
will create a file cal-2001.txt.001 which is a fax image, and should be
importable by GIMP.
(2) create call-2001.txt as above.
Create a file like cal.tex with
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{verbatim,type1cm}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\verbatiminput{cal-2001.txt}
\end{document}
latex cal
dvips -o cal.ps cal
Then you should have a PostScript file, cal.ps that you can play with
> Any ideas.
Well, those are my idea. But I'm sure that there must be better ways of
doing this.
-j
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