NAME

       text2gif - A program to generate GIF images out of regular text.  Text can be one line or multi-line, and
       is converted using 8 by 8 fixed font.

USAGE

       text2gif [-q] [-s ClrMapSize] [-f FGClr] [-c R G B] [-t Text ] [-h]

       This  program  reads stdin if no text is provided on the command line (-t), and will dump the created GIF
       file to stdout.

MEMORY REQUIRED

       Line.

OPTIONS

       [-q]

               Quiet mode.  Defaults off on MSDOS, on under UNIX.  Controls printout of running scan lines.  Use
              -q- to invert.

       [-s ClrMapSize]

              Explicitly defines the size of the color map of the resulting gif image.  Usually the  image  will
              be  bicolor with fg as color 1, unless [-f] is explicitly given in case the color map size will be
              big enough to hold it.  However it is sometimes convenient to set the color map  size  to  certain
              size  while  the  fg  color  is small mainly so this image may be merged with another (images must
              match color map size).

       [-f FG]

               Select foreground index (background is always 0).  By default it is one and therefore  the  image
              result  is bicolored.  if FG is set to n then color map will be created with 2^k entries where 2^k
              > n for minimum k, assuming k <= 8.  This color map will be all zeros except this forground index.
              This option is useful if this text image should be integrated  into  other  image  colormap  using
              their colors.

       [-c R G B]

               The color to use as the foreground color.  White by default.

       [-t "Text"]

               One  line of text can be provided on the command line.  Note you must encapsulate the Text within
              quotes if it has spaces (The quotes themselves are not treated as part of the  text).   If  no  -t
              option is provided, stdin is read until end of file.

       [-h]

               Print one line command line help, similar to Usage above.

NOTES

       There is a hardcoded limit of 100 the number of lines.

AUTHOR

       Gershon Elber

       Man page created by T.Gridel <tgridel@free.fr>, originally written by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>

                                                  giflib-tools                                       text2gif(1)