Chinese text GIF file generation

[William Park]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 09:36:18PM -0000, hungjunglu at yahoo.com wrote:
> Is there anything in Python (or C library) that take as input a text 
> file in Chinese (BIG5/GB) and generates a GIF file? (Preferable in 
> Windows.) I would imagine someone already wrote something for this in 
> C...
> 
> If there is something similar for Vietnamese, I'd like to know, too.

Because there is so many variables (ie. font, style, size, ...), I don't
think there is package that does what you want.  However, you can use
LaTeX to produce Postscript format, and then convert it into GIF.

---William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, Linux/Python, 8 CPUs.