Thanks, this looks to be exactly what I wanted.
---Matt
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Aleksey Romadinov wrote:
> Matthew,
>
> I think GD library would help. It can draw the text to the png format with
> ttf-fonts. You can use ImageMagick to convert png to something else.
> I'm writing addition for T1Lib support in GD but it's in the alpha stage.
>
> Regrads,
> Alex
> ---------------------------
> Alex Romadinoff, Lead Software Developer, OpenTeach Software, Inc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Mundy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 5:33 PM
> To: Tony Nugent
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: text-image utility
>
>
> Thanks. Does this work with the text in an ASCII file? I want to
> store a few lines of ascii into an image format. This was what I
> originally meant. Sorry, I should have specified the first time.
> ---Matt
>
> On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Tony Nugent wrote:
>
> > On Mon Mar 06 2000 at 13:00, Matthew Mundy wrote:
> >
> > > I am looking for a utility that can take a selection of text and store
> it
> > > in a picture format, preferably in batch mode.
> >
> > Try the NetPBM utilities, or the more recent libungif and libgr utilities
> that
> > have now replaced it.
> >
> > On my redhat box:
> >
> > $ rpm -qi libgr-progs
> > Name : libgr-progs Relocations: (not relocateable)
> > Version : 2.0.13 Vendor: Red Hat Software
> > Release : 20 Build Date: Tue 21 Sep 1999
> 03:28:40 AM EST
> > Install date: Tue 09 Nov 1999 01:09:16 AM EST Build Host:
> porky.devel.redhat.com
> > Group : Applications/Multimedia Source RPM: libgr-2.0.13-20.src.rpm
> > Size : 1629352 License: freeware
> > Packager : Red Hat Software <http://developer.redhat.com/bugzilla>
> > Summary : Tools for manipulating graphics files in libgr supported
> formats.
> > Description :
> > The libgr-progs package contains a group of scripts for manipulating the
> > graphics files in formats which are supported by the libgr library. For
> > example, libgr-progs includes the rasttopnm script, which will convert a
> > Sun rasterfile into a portable anymap. Libgr-progs contains many other
> > scripts for converting from one graphics file format to another.
> >
> > If you need to use these conversion scripts, you should install
> > libgr-progs. You'll also need to install the libgr package.
> >
> > $ rpm -qi libungif-progs
> > Name : libungif-progs Relocations: /usr
> > Version : 4.1.0 Vendor: Red Hat Software
> > Release : 2 Build Date: Mon 22 Mar 1999
> 02:17:34 AM EST
> > Install date: Tue 09 Nov 1999 01:09:24 AM EST Build Host:
> porky.devel.redhat.com
> > Group : Applications/Multimedia Source RPM:
> libungif-4.1.0-2.src.rpm
> > Size : 344972 License: X Consortium-like
> > Packager : Red Hat Software <http://developer.redhat.com/bugzilla/>
> > URL : http://prtr-13.ucsc.edu/~badger/software/libungif.shtml
> > Summary : Programs for manipulating GIF format image files.
> > Description :
> > The libungif-progs package contains various programs for manipulating
> > GIF format image files.
> >
> > Install this package if you need to manipulate GIF format image files.
> > You'll also need to install the libungif package.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Tony
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