[magick-users] Re: letter spacing?

[Anthony Thyssen]

"Ross Presser" on  wrote...
| Wouldn't it be far easier to just set your text using direct
| postscript, or a PDF library like iText, then convert that to an image
| with Ghostscript and mix it in?
| 
Of course.   It is like I said in IM examples...

   http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/#mixed_font_lines

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This is the sort of thing that programs like Word Processors, Web
Browsers, Document Printers do very well, usually under user
interaction, but few can do so well under program control.

One exception to this is "TeX", and its family of programs (MetaFont,
LaTeX, and so on), so if you are serious about processing text
graphically, I suggest you look at this program family.

Another alternative is to look at various document 'pretty' printing
programs such as a HTML converter. You can use these to convert program
generated documents into postscript which IM can then happily
post-process into whatever image format or style you want.

Now while IM is not designed for 'word processing', it does not mean you
can't use it for such. It is just more difficult.

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