# pbmtextps

Updated: 8 May 2002
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## NAME

pbmtextps - render text into a bitmap using a postscript interpreter

## SYNOPSIS

pbmtextps [-font fontname] [-fontsize fontsize] [-resolution resolution] [-stroke strokesize] text

## DESCRIPTION

Takes a single line of text from the command line and renders it into a bitmap.

The bitmap 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.

## OPTIONS

-font
  By default, pbmtext 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. This defaults to 24 points.
-resolution
  Resolution of image in DPI. Default is 150. Since PBM files do not have any inherent size, this resolution is in relation to the font size.
-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 pnmscale.

See the man page for the similar pbmtext for more advice on usage.

## SEE ALSO

pbmtext, pnmcut, pnmcrop, pnmcomp, ppmchange, pnmrotate, pnmscale, ppmlabel, pbm.html

## AUTHOR

Copyright (C) 2002 by James McCann

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