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SYNOPSISpbmtextps [-font fontname] [-fontsize fontsize] [-resolution resolu‐
tion] [-stroke strokesize] text
DESCRIPTION
This program is part of Netpbm(1).
pbmtextps takes a single line of text from the command line and renders
it into a PBM image.
The image is cropped at the top and the right. It is not cropped at
the left or bottom so that the text begins at the same position rela‐
tive to the origin. You can use pnmcrop to crop it all the way.
OPTIONS-font By default, pbmtextps uses TimesRoman.
You can specify the font to use with the -font option. This is
the name of any valid postscript font which is installed on your
system.
-fontsize
Size of font in points. See the -resolution option for informa‐
tion on how to interpret this size.
Default is 24 points.
-resolution
Resolution in dots per inch of distance measurements pertaining
to generation of the image. PBM images don't have any inherent
resolution, so a distance such as "1 inch" doesn't mean anything
unless you separately specify what resolution you're talking
about. That's what this option does.
In particular, the meaning of the font size is determined by
this resolution. If the font size is 24 points and the resolu‐
tion is 150 dpi, then the font size is 50 pixels.
Default is 150 dpi.
-stroke
Width of line to use for stroke font. There is no default
stroke width because the letters are solid by default.
USAGE
You can generate antialiased text by using a larger resolution than the
default and scaling the image down using pamscale.
See the manual for the similar pbmtext for more advice on usage.
HISTORYpbmtextps was added to Netpbm in Release 10.0 (June 2002).
SEE ALSOpbmtext(1), pamcut(1), pnmcrop(1), pamcomp(1), ppmchange(1), pnmro‐
tate(1), pamscale(1), ppmlabel(1), pbm(1)AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 2002 by James McCann
netpbm documentation 7 October 2003 Pbmtextps User Manual(0)
