Package: netpbm
Severity: wish

Hello Maintainer,

    ==>>  PLEASE FORWARD THIS WISH TO UPSTREAM  <<==

we have a "pbmtext" and a "pbmtextps" and I like to see a
"pbmtextpango" which should no realy difficult to make if
Upstream has already two other tools of this kind.

I like to see something like

  pbmtextpango \
    -font "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1" \
    "Some text to render"

to get this running, the tool must support UNICODE and use
libpango1.0 and from the description:

----8<--------------------------------------------------------------
Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout can be used
with four different font backends:
 - Core X windowing system fonts
 - Client-side fonts on X using the Xft library
 - Direct rendering of scalable fonts using the FreeType library
 - Native fonts on Microsoft backends
----8<--------------------------------------------------------------


I have this wish, sice I have the need to create several 1000 images
for a website in a bunch of languages from localized mo files and
scripts where a foo-script from "The Gimp" does not do what I want,
since "The Gimp" require the x-window-system and is definitivly too
slow for the cration of Images (e.g. 20x100, 20x200, 20x300, 32x32,
48x48 and 64x64).

I see this tool as a real valuable extension to the netpbm package.

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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