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Message from Ch.Lange cce.zizkov AT volny.cz:
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On 13 Mar 07 at 9:01, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

>> The feature I was particularly looking for is creating an image
>> from text.
>
>As I sad I can't really help with the BDF fonts. But what about GS do
>you have that in DOS? That is the way I do it for my book and I
>describe how I convert from text to image here.

Yes, last year I wrote a DOS script text2ps with makes use of Imagick 
and GS: 

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USAGE: text2ps typeface pointsize "text input"

Supported typefaces (*=only Latin 1):

Gothic GothicB GothicI GothicBI Bookman BookmanB BookmanI BookmanBI 
Century CenturyB CenturyI CenturyBI Helvetica HelveticaB HelveticaI 
HelveticaBI HelveticaC HelveticaCB HelveticaCI HelveticaCBI Times 
TimesB TimesI TimesBI Courier CourierB CourierI CourierBI Palladio 
PalladioB PalladioI PalladioBI CharterB* CharterBI* Charter* 
CharterI* Antiqua* Grotesk* 
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The number of GS fonts is actually not so bad. But as I have to 
work with Latin2 I am still looking for alternatives. BDF fonts 
seemed to be some kind of standard, I thought. But I could not find 
them, perhaps they are not. 

>
>http://www.home.no/mlinux/tex-img.htm
>
>under the header
>
>CONVERTING TO PDF
>
>GS have a lot of fonts (the gsfonts)
>
>Maybe you want something simpler, but I just want to say that i think
>PostScript can be quite simple if you just want a few lines of text.
>As simple as learning the functionality of a netpbm tool. But then
>again I find my self making text with pbmtext instead of PostScript
>when ever possible so in some way it must feel simpler to me to to use
>netpbm.

Now I had time to read your instructions on the web page. This is
fantastic. I will probably never begin to use Linux if it is that
simple! My old DOS word processor produces output .ps. The printer
in our office is PS capable, too. So it would be enough to write a
few scripts to modify the output that is sent to the printer.

Christof

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