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SHANTY(1)							      Shanty								 SHANTY(1)

NAME

       Shanty - Makes a PostScript file from an image and some text.

SYNOPSIS

       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]

DESCRIPTION

       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.

OPTIONS

       -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.

HOMEPAGE

       <http://www.codebunny.org/coding/shanty/>

AUTHOR

       Duncan Martin <duncan@codebunny.org>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       Many thanks to DFB <http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~dfb/> and contributors to comp.lang.postscript.

Duncan Martin							  6 October 2006							 SHANTY(1)

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NAME

       fontimage - produce a font thumbnail image

SYNOPSIS

       fontimage [--help] [--width num] [--height num] [--pixelsize num] [--text string] [--o outputfile] [--usage] [--version] fontfile

DESCRIPTION

       The  program  fontimage	loads  a font, which may be in any format fontforge(1) can read, and then produces an image showing representative
       glyphs of the font.

OPTIONS

       --help Provide a description with a list of the available options.

       --width num
	      Specifies the width of the output image. If this is omitted the image will be as wide as necessary to display the text.

       --height num
	      Specifies the height of the output image. If this is omitted the image will be as high as necessary to display the text.

       --pixelsize num
	      Specifies the pixelsize used to display the text. This argument may be specified multiple times and each refers to any --text  lines
	      that follow it.

       --text string
	      Specifies  a  line  of  text to be displayed. The string must be in UTF-8.  This argument may be specified multiple times to provide
	      several lines of text. If no --text arguments are supplied fontimage will examine the font, looking for  various	scripts  it  knows
	      about, and will try to display something appropriate for each.

       -o  outfile
	      Specifies the output filename for the image. The type of image will be determined by the file's extension. Currently only ".bmp" and
	      ".png" are recognized. If omitted fontimage will choose an output name based on the font's fontname field.

       --usage
	      Display the usage description.

       --version
	      Display the current version

SEE ALSO

       fontforge(1)

       The HTML version of the fontforge manual at:
       http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/

AUTHOR

       Copyright (C) 2006 by George Williams (gww@silcom.com).

								  26 October 2006						      FONTIMAGE(1)

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