pbmtextps

   Updated: 7 October 2003
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NAME

   pbmtextps  -	 render	 text into a PBM image using a postscript
interpreter

SYNOPSIS

   pbmtextps [-font fontname] [-fontsize  fontsize]  [-resolution
resolution]
   [-stroke strokesize] text

DESCRIPTION

   This program is part of Netpbm.

   pbmtextps  takes  a	single line of text from the command line
and renders it
   into a PBM image.

   The image is cropped at the top  and	 the  right.  It  is  not
cropped at the left
   or  bottom  so that the text begins at the same position rela-
tive to the
   origin. You can use pnmcrop to crop it all the way.

OPTIONS

   -font
	  By default, pbmtextps uses TimesRoman.
	  You can specify the font to use with the -font  option.
This is the
	  name of any valid postscript font which is installed on
your system.
   -fontsize
	  Size of font in points. See the -resolution option  for
information on
	  how to interpret this size.
	  Default is 24 points.
   -resolution
	  Resolution  in  dots	per inch of distance measurements
pertaining to
	  generation  of  the  image.  PBM images don't have  any
inherent
	  resolution, so a distance such as "1 inch" doesn't mean
anything
	  unless you separately specify	 what  resolution  you're
talking about.
	  That's what this option does.
	  In  particular,  the meaning of the font size is deter-
mined by this
	  resolution. If the font size is 24 points and the reso-
lution is 150
	  dpi, then the font size is 50 pixels.
	  Default is 150 dpi.
   -stroke
	  Width	 of  line to use for stroke font. There is no de-
fault stroke
	  width because the letters are solid by default.



USAGE

   You can generate antialiased text by using a larger resolution
than the
   default and scaling the image down using pnmscale.

   See	the manual for the similar pbmtext for more advice on us-
age.

HISTORY

   pbmtextps was added to Netpbm in Release 10.0 (June 2002).

SEE ALSO

   pbmtext, pamcut, pnmcrop, pamcomp, ppmchange, pnmrotate,  pam-
scale, ppmlabel,
   pbm

AUTHOR

   Copyright (C) 2002 by James McCann
     _________________________________________________________________



Table Of Contents

     * NAME
     * SYNOPSIS
     * DESCRIPTION
     * OPTIONS
     * USAGE
     * HISTORY
     * SEE ALSO
     * AUTHOR

UNIX/Linux commands referenced on this page:

1. at
2. top
3. pnmcrop
4. which
5. as
6. size
7. pbmtext
8. more
9. pamcut
10. pamcomp
11. ppmchange
12. pnmrotate