"Sometimes you might have a need to make an image file consisting mostly of text--to use as a banner on a Web page, for instance. You can always make the banner in an image editor, but there's a much quicker way--one that lends itself to automatic generation from scripts using arbitrary text.
"GNU Enscript is a tool that converts text to PostScript, and when combined with the ImageMagick suite of image processing tools--which comes installed as standard equipment on almost all Linux distributions these days--you can build nice-looking PNG and JPEG image banners for Web sites, on the fly, from any text you give it..."
