Graphics Rendering [OT?]

[Steve Searle]

Around 05:00pm on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 (UK time), Jonathan Allen scrawled:

> Hi All,
> 
> This is probably off-topic, but perhaps someone can point me to the
> right place to ask the question.  I am looking for one of two things:
> 
>    1. an application that takes a text file and a .ttf file and renders
>       the text in that font into a .gif file; perhaps with a few flags
>       for things like size, colour, background and so on - in the
>       simplest case, just size, rendered in black on white

It sounds like the sort of thing ImageMagick could do. See
http://www.bl.com/moshe/text/quiddities/imagefromtext.html

Steve

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