NAME

       pbmtextps - render text into a bitmap via postscript

SYNOPSIS

       pbmtextps  [-font  fontfile] [-fontsize fontsize] [-resolution resolution] [-stroke strokesize] [-verbose
       [text]

DESCRIPTION

       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 relative 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 information 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 resolution 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

       See pbmtext for usage examples.

SEE ALSO

       pbmtext(1), pnmcut(1), pnmcrop(1), pnmcomp(1), ppmchange(1), pnmrotate(1), ppmlabel(1), pbm(5)

AUTHOR

       Copyright (C) 2002 by James McCann

                                                 02 January 2003                                    pbmtextps(1)