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

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

Duncan Martin                                    6 October 2006                                        SHANTY(1)

       Duncan Martin <duncan@codebunny.org>

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.

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

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

-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.

shanty-iimage_file  [-ttext_file]  [-ooutput_file]  [-spaper_size] [-ddensity] [-mmargin] [-bbackground_color] [-xpadding] [-ntitle] [-lorientation] [-rtl] [-btt] [-ffont_name] [-altgd]