This one time, at band camp, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: >Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > >> > but would imagemagick ( >> > http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php) do what you want? >> >> Oh, cool. I wasn't aware that imagemagick also did text. Installing >> libmagick6-dev now. Thanks. > > > >Ok, I've looked at image magick, spent a bunch of time getting something >working and all I can say is yuck. > >Hmm, I wonder what Keith Packard et al's libcairo is like. I really >doubt it could be half as bad.
The API to cairo is really really nice, especially if you're coming from a PDF/PostScript generation background. I suspect it may be a little involved to do what you want with it, but it's certainly possible. I didn't mention it earlier because I thought ImageMagick would have been a more appropriate tool. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
