Re: Text to Image?
| From: | Miguel Cruz | Date: | Wed, 08 May 2002 06:50:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Text to Image? | ||
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On Tue, 7 May 2002, Jason Caldwell wrote:
> i cannot figure out how to use the built in php functions -- i've downloaded
> the ImageMagicK programs -- win32 binaries -- do you happen to know how to
> convert Text to Gif using the command line convert.exe ???
>
> there are no examples --
>
> it's amazing how difficult this all is... you'd figure there'd be an easy
> way to convert text to .gif -- i'll have various text docs, of various
> sizes -- that i'll want to convert on the fly to gif files. the text files
> could be between 100 to 10000 lines.
If you're working with that much text I'd suggest looking into serious
text processing packages. It'll take some larnin' but be much more useful
in the long run. You could, for instance, use groff to generate DVI or PS
files and render them as GIFs (or, perhaps more usefully, PDFs).
miguel