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)