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- Text2Gif
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- Program to generate gif images out of regular text. Text can be one line
- or multi line, and is converted using 8 by 8 fix font.
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- Usage:
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- Usage: Text2Gif [-q] [-s ClrMapSize] [-f FGClr] [-c R G B] [-t "Text"] [-h]
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- Text2Gif read stdin if no text is provided in the command line (-t),
- and will dump the created GIF file to stdout.
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- Memory required:
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- Line.
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- Options:
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- 1. [-q] : quite mode. Default off on MSDOS, on on unix. Controls printout
- of running scan lines. Use -q- to turn off.
- 2. [-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).
- 3. [-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.
- 4. [-c R G B] : The color to use as the foreground color. While by default.
- 5. [-t "Text"] : in case of one line text, it can be provided on the command
- line. Note you must encapsulate the Text within quotes if it has spaces
- (The quotes themselves are not part of the text). If no -t option is
- provided, stdin is read until end of file.
- 6. [-h] : print one command line help, similar to Usage above.
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- Notes:
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- There is a hard bound limit on the number of lines, and it is set to 100.
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