[TAG] Eml to tiff converter

[Ben Okopnik]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 08:12:51AM +0530, Raj Shekhar wrote:
> 
> Yes, you can take a text file and convert it into an image.  Please put 
> your hand together for the swiss army knife for image manipulation - 
> Imagemagick.
> 
> You can use the convert command (part of imagemagick package) to do 
> this.  For example, I want to convert the file mysig.txt into an image. 
>   Here is how to do it
> 
> ``
> convert label:@mysig.txt ~/dump/mysig.png
> ''
> 
> For more tips on how to control the colors, font etc., check out the 
> excellent tutorial at http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/

Nice tip, Raj! I've been doing some crazily-complicated version of that
for ages (via a shell script, true, but I had to do a huge amount of
wrestling with it initially to get it to do the right thing.) Good to
know that there's a simple way to do this.


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