Chinese text GIF file generation
William Park
parkw at better.net
Sun Mar 11 16:45:09 EST 2001
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 09:36:18PM -0000, hungjunglu at yahoo.com wrote:
> Is there anything in Python (or C library) that take as input a text
> file in Chinese (BIG5/GB) and generates a GIF file? (Preferable in
> Windows.) I would imagine someone already wrote something for this in
> C...
>
> If there is something similar for Vietnamese, I'd like to know, too.
Because there is so many variables (ie. font, style, size, ...), I don't
think there is package that does what you want. However, you can use
LaTeX to produce Postscript format, and then convert it into GIF.
---William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, Linux/Python, 8 CPUs.
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