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On 10 Mar 07 at 11:49, mimeini AT gmail.com wrote:

Thank you for your reply, Mikkel. 

>> ppmlabel - Add text to an image

The feature I was particularly looking for is creating an image 
from text. 

>> ppmdraw - Draw text, lines, shapes, etc. on an image (from a file 

>pbmtextps

I could not find these in the ver. 9.16 DOS distribution. I will have
to test the Linux version, at least if I want to write to BasicLinux 
list ;- ) 

>as for BDF fonts I haven't tried that ether. Pbmtext has an other very
>interesting facility apart from the BDF font the might be helpful
>here. Selects a font that you supply yourself as a PBM file in a
>special form. You simple make an image of (for instance a screendump
>ore convert a ps to image) your favorite font setup in a special way
>the is described in the documentation and the size you prefer and than
>you can use that font. Very good for special font the you find
>somewhere but can not get in the format you need.

But obviously this will not work with any proportional size font. 
This is why I would be glad to know more about BDF fonts which could 
be used with pbmtext. 

Christof

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