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NAME
pbmtextps - render text into a PBM image using a postscript interpreter
SYNOPSIS
pbmtextps [-font fontname] [-fontsize float] [-resolution n] [-leftmargin=n]
[-rightmargin=n] [-topmargin=n] [-bottommargin=n] [-ascent=n] [-descent=n] [-pad] [-crop]
[-stroke n] [-verbose] [-dump-ps] 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 of a single line of text; newline characters in the input have no
effect.
See pbmtext for a more sophisticated generator of text, but using less common font
formats. pbmtext can generate multiple lines of text.
The -plain common option ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ has no effect before Netpbm 10.42
(March 2008). The output is always raw PBM.
Margins
By default, 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. The size
of the default left and bottom margins is explained below.
You can set whatever margin you want with options -leftmargin, -rightmargin, -topmargin
and -bottommargin. The specified amount of white space gets added to the far edge of
type, e.g. if you specify 10 points for -topmargin, you will get 10 points of white space
above the highest character on the line. Specify 0 to crop a side.
-ascent adds white space to the top to reach a specified distance above the text baseline,
and -descent adds white space to to the bottom to reach a specified distance below the
text baseline.
-ascent and -descent are more useful than -topmargin and -bottomargin when you render two
pieces of text (in separate invocations of pbmtextps) that you will concatenate
horizontally. With -ascent and -descent, the two images will be the same height with the
text baseline in the same place. With -topmargin and -bottommargin, that may not be the
case.
Example:
$ pbmtextps -font=Times-Roman -descent=20 \
'The soup is called' > a1.pbm
$ pbmtextps -font=Itallic -descent=20 'Goulash.' > a2.pbm
$ pnmcat -lr -jb a1.pbm a2.pbm > out.pbm
If you have -ascent, there is probably no point in specifying -topmargin too, but if you
do, the effect is cumulative. The same is true of -descent and -bottommargin.
-pad pads the image on the top and bottom to the where the highest and lowest characters
in the font would reach, even if you don't have those characters in your text. This is
useful if you will generate multiple images of text (with multiple invocations of
pbmtextps) and concatenate them vertically to create a multiline text image. -pad makes
sure the lines in this image are equally spaced.
Example:
$ pbmtextps 'cat' | pamfile
$ pbmtextps 'Catty' | pamfile
The commands above, with no -pad, show that the 'Catty' image is higher because capital C
reaches high and 'y' reaches low.
$ pbmtextps -pad 'cat' | pamfile
$ pbmtextps -pad 'Catty' | pamfile
The commands above, with -pad, show that both images are the same height.
If you specify -pad with -ascent or -descent, the larger value is effective.
-crop makes the program crop all sides to the far edge of the type. It is the same as
-leftmargin=0 -rightmargin=0 -topmargin=0 -bottommargin=0.
You cannot specify any other margin-affecting options with -crop.
The default top margin, when you specify neither -ascent, -topmargin, nor -pad, is as if
you specified topmargin=0.
The default bottom margin, when you specify neither -descent, -bottommargin, nor -pad, is
as if you specified -descent=1.5*fontsize.
The default left margin, when you do not specify -leftmargin, is as if you specified
-leftmargin=0.5*fontsize.
The default right margin, when you do not specify -rightmargin, is as if you specified
-rightmargin=0.
OPTIONS
In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm (most notably -quiet,
see
Common Options ⟨index.html#commonoptions⟩ ), pbmtextps recognizes the following command
line options:
-font=fontname
This specifies the font to use. fontname is the name of any valid postscript font
which is installed on the system.
The default is TimesRoman.
Warning: if fontname does not name a valid font, pbmtextps just uses the default
font. It does not tell you it is doing this.
-fontsize=float
This is the size of the font in points. See the -resolution option for information
on how to interpret this size.
The default is 24 points.
Before Netpbm 10.75 (June 2016), this has to be a whole number.
-resolution=n
This is the 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.
The default is 150 dpi.
-leftmargin=n
-rightmargin=n
-topmargin=n
-bottommargin=n
These options control the margins added to the image, measured from the far edge of
the type. See Margins ⟨#margins⟩ for details.
All sizes are in points, as a floating point number.
These options were new in Netpbm 10.75 (June 2016).
-ascent=n
-descent=n
These options control the margins added to the image, measured from the text
baseline. See Margins ⟨#margins⟩ for details.
Sizes are in points, as a floating point number.
These options were new in Netpbm 10.75 (June 2016).
-pad This pads the image on the top and bottom to the where the highest and lowest
characters in the font would reach, even if you don't have those characters in your
text. See Margins ⟨#margins⟩ for details.
This option was new in Netpbm 10.75 (June 2016).
-crop This makes the program crop all sides to the far edge of the type. It is the same
as -leftmargin=0 -rightmargin=0 -topmargin=0 -bottommargin=0. See Margins
⟨#margins⟩ for details.
This option was new in Netpbm 10.75 (June 2016).
-stroke=n
This is the width of line, in points, to use for stroke font. There is no default
stroke width because the characters are solid by default.
-verbose
This option makes pbmtextps display extra information on Standard Error about its
processing.
-dump-ps
This option makes pbmtextps write to Standard Output the Postscript program it
would use to create the image, rather than the image itself. You can use this as
input to a Postscript interpreter (such as Ghostscript or a a printer) or to
understand the program better.
This option was new in Netpbm 10.75 (June 2016).
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.
HISTORY
pbmtextps was added to Netpbm in Release 10.0 (June 2002).
SEE ALSO
pbmtext(1), pamcut(1), pnmcrop(1), pamcomp(1), ppmchange(1), pnmrotate(1), pamscale(1),
ppmlabel(1), pbm(1)
AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 2002 by James McCann
DOCUMENT SOURCE
This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source. The master
documentation is at
http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pbmtextps.html