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Old 12-13-2014, 05:38 PM   #1
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Imagemagick text to image


I want to convert a page of text, columns and rows of numbers and labels, to an image. Then overlay the image on a background of logos lines and stuff.

Everything works almost!

The problem is the Imagemagic text to image command

convert filein.txt fileout.png

Doesn't properly preserve spaces which squashes into less than a character width and therefore the columns don't line up.

I have tried specifying a font, for example

convert filein -font DejaVu-Sans-Mono-Book fileout.png

but no apparent change in whitespace packing.

Any suggestions please
 
Old 12-13-2014, 07:12 PM   #2
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you might have better results uning
"asciitopgm" or "pstopnm"

should be installed by default as part of "netpbm"

and converting a text file to postscript should be no problem
 
Old 12-14-2014, 02:32 AM   #3
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asciitopgm just rendered dollops on the page. Completely unreadable.

Rendering postscript from the text and then to jpg nearly worked.

However, there is always some point in the conversion chain that spoils the final outcome. the first test to postscript conversion is hampered by limitations of the media. So in my case text lines would extend beyond the page edge and wrap to the next line. Changing media to A2 fits the lines on okay although the page size has varying effects on subsequent conversion to jpg or tiff.
Most final results using the scripts suggested or even the convert command were poor.

In the end Imagemagick is the tool!
Imagemagic's "convert" can draw text into an image. It has the feature to draw multi line text from a file An example of its use is

Code:
convert -font DejaVu-Sans-Mono-Bold -pointsize 14 -gravity northwest label:@infile.txt outfile.jpg
There is some playing around required to find a font that doesn't squash whitespace but you can control font and poinsize and the rendered image adjusts to line length.
Cool!

Last edited by keirvt; 12-14-2014 at 02:33 AM.
 
Old 02-23-2015, 08:35 PM   #4
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so the command would be, let me try

Code:
convert -font DejaVu-Sans-Mono-Bold -pointsize 14 -gravity northwest label:@infile.txt outfile.jpg
 
  


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