Shanty - Makes a PostScript file from an image and some text.
shanty -i image_file [-t text_file]
[-o output_file] [-s paper_size] [-d
density] [-m margin] [-b
background_color] [-x padding] [-n
title] [-l orientation] [-rtl] [-btt]
[-f font_name] [-altgd]
Shanty takes a text file and an image (PNG or JPG) and
creates a PostScript file where one pixel in the image becomes one character
in the PostScript.
- -i, -image
- Name of the image to load in. JPG and PNG images are supported. This is
the only compulsory field.
- -t, -text
- Name of the text file to load in, if omitted STDIN is used.
- -o, -output
- Name of the PostScript file to produce, if omitted STDOUT is used.
- -s, -size
- Size of the paper to work with. This field should be one of:
"a0", "a2", "a3", "a4",
"a5", "a6", "letter",
"broadsheet", "ledger", "tabloid",
"legal", "executive" and "36x36". Default is
"a4".
- -d, -density
- Density of the text. Higher numbers are more dense, default is 1.4.
- -m, -margin
- The margins of the page in cm. Default is 1.
- -b,
-background
- The colour of a backing rectangle to place behind the text. Colours are
specified as "R,G,B" with each value between 0 and 255.
"off" means no backing colour. Default is "off".
- -x, -p,
-padding
- Density of the text. Higher numbers are more dense, default is 1.4.
- -n, -title
- The title of the output to write as meta-data in the PostScript file.
Default is "Shanty output".
- -l,
-orientation
- The orientation of the paper, can be "portrait",
"landscape" or "auto". Default is
"auto".
- -rtl
- Switch to right-to-left text.
- -btt
- Switch to bottom-to-top text.
- -f, -font
- Specify font. The font name specified must be visible to the not just make
a font magically appear. Default is "Courier-Bold".
- -altgd
- If you have problems loading the GD library, try this switch.
<http://www.codebunny.org/coding/shanty/>
Duncan Martin <duncan@codebunny.org>
Many thanks to DFB <http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~dfb/> and
contributors to comp.lang.postscript.