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| author | giraffedata <giraffedata@9d0c8265-081b-0410-96cb-a4ca84ce46f8> | 2023-02-18 02:07:44 +0000 |
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| committer | giraffedata <giraffedata@9d0c8265-081b-0410-96cb-a4ca84ce46f8> | 2023-02-18 02:07:44 +0000 |
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diff --git a/pbmtextps.html b/pbmtextps.html index 908f6f77..627f11d8 100644 --- a/pbmtextps.html +++ b/pbmtextps.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <html><head><title>Pbmtextps User Manual</title></head> <body> <h1>pbmtextps</h1> -Updated: 21 July 2022 +Updated: 17 February 2023 <br> <a href="#index">Table Of Contents</a> @@ -24,9 +24,11 @@ pbmtextps - render text into a PBM image using a postscript interpreter [<b>-pad</b>] [<b>-crop</b>] [<b>-stroke</b> <i>n</i>] +[<b>-asciihex</b>] +[<b>-ascii85</b>] [<b>-verbose</b>] [<b>-dump-ps</b>] -<i>text</i> +<i>text</i> [<i>text</i> ...] <h2 id="description">DESCRIPTION</h2> @@ -146,6 +148,67 @@ as if you specified <b>-leftmargin=</b><i>0.5*fontsize</i>. is as if you specified <b>-rightmargin=0</b>. +<h2 id="input_text">Input Text</h2> + +<p>The simplest way to specify the text to render is just to specify it, + in ASCII, as the sole argument of the command. For example, + + <pre> + <kbd> + $ pbmtextps "hello world" + </kbd> + </pre> + +<p>But you can also spread it across multiple arguments. <b>pbmtextps</b> + concatenates them right to left with a single space in between: + + <pre> + <kbd> + $ pbmtextps hello world + </kbd> + </pre> + +<p>With an <b>-asciihex</b> option, you can specify the text in +Postscript's ASCII-HEX code: + + <pre> + <kbd> + $ pbmtextps -asciihex 68656c6c6f20776f726c64 + </kbd> + </pre> + +<p>You can optionally include the ASCII-HEX text delimiters that would appear +around the text in a Postscript program: + + <pre> + <kbd> + $ pbmtextps -asciihex "<68656c6c6f20776f726c64>" + </kbd> + </pre> + +<p>Note that the <> delimiters have special meaning to command shells, so if +you are invoking <b>pbmtextps</b> via a command shell, be sure to quote them, +as is done in this example. + +<p>With <b>-asciihex</b>, you can include white space anywhere in the coded +text; it has no effect. And you can spread the argument across multiple +arguments as for plain ASCII input: + + <pre> + <kbd> + $ pbmtextps -asciihex "<" "68656c6c6f 20 776f726c64 ">" + </kbd> + </pre> + +<p>But note that while Postscript allows an ASCII NUL character as white + space, there is no way to pass an argument including a NUL character to + <b>pbmtextps</b>. + +<p>With an <b>-ascii85</b> option, you can specify the text in +Postscript's ASCII-85 code. This is analogous to <b>-asciihex</b>. The +Postscript delimiters for an ASCII-85 text string are <~ ~>. + + <h2 id="options">OPTIONS</h2> <p>In addition to the options common to all programs based on libnetpbm @@ -233,6 +296,24 @@ See <a href="#margins">Margins</a> for details. <p>This option was new in Netpbm 10.75 (June 2016). +<dt><b>-asciihex</b> +<dd> +This means the text in the arguments is in Postscript ASCII-HEX code. +See <a href="input_text">Input Text</a>. + +<p>You cannot specify this together with <b>-ascii85</b>. + +<p>This option was new in Netpbm 11.02 (March 2023)l + +<dt><b>-ascii85</b> +<dd> +This means the text in the arguments is in Postscript ASCII-85 code. +See <a href="input_text">Input Text</a>. + +<p>You cannot specify this together with <b>-asciihex</b>. + +<p>This option was new in Netpbm 11.02 (March 2023)l + <dt><b>-stroke=</b><i>n</i> <dd> This is the width of line, in points, to use for stroke font. There is no |