Very good answer

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Natarajan V <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:00 AM, kish <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to write an application that will
>> convert a novel spanning multiple pages to multiple PNG files of specific
>> size say 480 x 272 each.
>
> Are you sure you want to use PNG? PNG is an image format, and
> converting a Text to image actually reduces the quality of output and
> increases the file size. It will also prevent people from using it for
> copy+paste, etc.. IMHO, a PDF would be better.
>
>> I'm looking at Python Imaging Library.
>
> Not sure of a Python lib, but GS has the following tools that you can
> use from a shell script:
>
> text2ps --> convert a text file into a PostScript file
> ps2png --> Convert a PostScript file into PS.
>
>
> with regards,
> Natarajan.
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