Thanks. Does this work with the text in an ASCII file? I want to
store a few lines of ascii into an image format. This was what I
originally meant. Sorry, I should have specified the first time.
---Matt
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Tony Nugent wrote:
> On Mon Mar 06 2000 at 13:00, Matthew Mundy wrote:
>
> > I am looking for a utility that can take a selection of text and store it
> > in a picture format, preferably in batch mode.
>
> Try the NetPBM utilities, or the more recent libungif and libgr utilities that
> have now replaced it.
>
> On my redhat box:
>
> $ rpm -qi libgr-progs
> Name : libgr-progs Relocations: (not relocateable)
> Version : 2.0.13 Vendor: Red Hat Software
> Release : 20 Build Date: Tue 21 Sep 1999 03:28:40 AM EST
> Install date: Tue 09 Nov 1999 01:09:16 AM EST Build Host: porky.devel.redhat.com
> Group : Applications/Multimedia Source RPM: libgr-2.0.13-20.src.rpm
> Size : 1629352 License: freeware
> Packager : Red Hat Software <http://developer.redhat.com/bugzilla>
> Summary : Tools for manipulating graphics files in libgr supported formats.
> Description :
> The libgr-progs package contains a group of scripts for manipulating the
> graphics files in formats which are supported by the libgr library. For
> example, libgr-progs includes the rasttopnm script, which will convert a
> Sun rasterfile into a portable anymap. Libgr-progs contains many other
> scripts for converting from one graphics file format to another.
>
> If you need to use these conversion scripts, you should install
> libgr-progs. You'll also need to install the libgr package.
>
> $ rpm -qi libungif-progs
> Name : libungif-progs Relocations: /usr
> Version : 4.1.0 Vendor: Red Hat Software
> Release : 2 Build Date: Mon 22 Mar 1999 02:17:34 AM EST
> Install date: Tue 09 Nov 1999 01:09:24 AM EST Build Host: porky.devel.redhat.com
> Group : Applications/Multimedia Source RPM: libungif-4.1.0-2.src.rpm
> Size : 344972 License: X Consortium-like
> Packager : Red Hat Software <http://developer.redhat.com/bugzilla/>
> URL : http://prtr-13.ucsc.edu/~badger/software/libungif.shtml
> Summary : Programs for manipulating GIF format image files.
> Description :
> The libungif-progs package contains various programs for manipulating
> GIF format image files.
>
> Install this package if you need to manipulate GIF format image files.
> You'll also need to install the libungif package.
>
> Cheers
> Tony
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