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NAME
ppmlabel - add text to a PPM image
SYNOPSIS
ppmlabel
[-angle angle]
[-background { transparent | color } ]
[-color color]
[-file filename]
[-size
textsize]
[-text text_string]
[-x column]
[-y row]
...
[ppmfile]
EXAMPLE
ppmlabel -x 50 -y 50 -text hello \
-angle -30 -text there \
testimg.ppm
DESCRIPTION
This program is part of Netpbm(1).
ppmlabel uses the text drawing facilities of libnetpbm's "ppmd" component to add text to a
PBM image. You control the location, size, baseline angle, color of the text, and back-
ground color (if any) with command line arguments. You can specify the text on the com-
mand line or supply it in files.
You can add any number of separate labels in a single invocation of ppmlabel, limited only
by any restrictions your environment has on the number and size of program arguments (e.g.
a shell's command size limit).
If you don't specify ppmfile, ppmlabel reads its input PPM image from Standard Input.
The output image goes to Standard Output.
A more sophisticated way to add a label to an image is to use pbmtext or pbmtextps to cre-
ate an image of the text, then pamcomp to overlay it onto the base image.
Another more general program is ppmdraw. It is slightly harder to use for simple
labelling.
OPTIONS
The arguments on the ppmlabel command line are not options in the strict sense; they are
commands which control the placement and appearance of the text being added to the input
image. They are executed left to right, and any number of arguments may appear.
You can abbreviate any option to its shortest unique prefix.
-angle angle
This option sets the angle of the baseline of subsequent text. angle is an inte-
gral number of degrees, measured counterclockwise from the row axis of the image.
-background { transparent | color }
If the argument is transparent, ppmlabel draws the text over the existing pixels in
the image. If you specify a color (see the -color option below for information on
how to specify colors), ppmlabel generates background rectangles enclosing subse-
quent text, and those rectangles are filled with that color.
-color color
This option sets the color for subsequent text.
Specify the color (color) as described for the argument of the ppm_parsecolor()
library routine <libppm.html#colorname> .
-colour is an acceptable alternate spelling.
-file filename
This option causes ppmlabel to read lines of text from the file named filename and
draw it on successive lines.
-size textsize
This option sets the height of the tallest characters above the baseline to text-
size pixels.
-text text_string
This option causes ppmlabel to draw the specified text string. It advances the
location for subsequent text down 1.75 times the current textsize. That lets you
draw multiple lines of text in a reasonable manner without specifying the position
of each line.
Note that if you invoke ppmlabel via a shell command and your text string contains
spaces, you'll have to quote it so the shell treats the whole string as a single
token. E.g.
$ ppmlabel -text "this is my text" baseimage.ppm >annotatedimage.ppm
-x column
This option sets the pixel column at which subsequent text will be left justified.
Depending on the shape of the first character, the actual text may begin a few pix-
els to the right of this point.
-y row This option sets the pixel row which will form the baseline of subsequent text.
Characters with descenders, such as "y," will extend below this line.
LIMITATIONS
Text strings are restricted to 7 bit ASCII. The text font used by ppmlabel doesn't
include definitions for 8 bit ISO 8859/1 characters.
When drawing multiple lines of text with a non-transparent background, it should probably
fill the space between the lines with the background color. This is tricky to get right
when the text is rotated to a non-orthogonal angle.
SEE ALSO
ppmmake(1), ppmdraw(1), pbmtext(1), pbmtextps(1), pamcomp(1), ppm(1)
AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1995 by John Walker (kelvin AT fourmilab.ch) WWW home page:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/ <http://www.fourmilab.ch/>
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for
any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, without any conditions or restrictions.
This software is provided ``as is'' without express or implied warranty.
DOCUMENT SOURCE
This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source. The master
documentation is at
http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/ppmlabel.html
netpbm documentation 15 April 2006 Ppmlabel User Manual(0)
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