Linux.com: CLI Magic: Make Instant Web Banners from the Command Line
Aug 08, 2006, 06:00 (0 Talkback[s])
"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..."
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