textrain

Get png images for words

The textrain module can be run as follows

textrain word1 word2 ... wordn

which generates one png file for each word.

Install

First, ensure that you have the required tools

• pdftotext
• pdflatex
• pdftoppm
• pdfcrop

which on Ubuntu can be obtained by running

sudo apt install texlive-latex-base texlive-extra-utils poppler-utils

Then install textrain with Pip:

pip install git+https://github.com/pgdr/textrain

Example

Running

textrain kristian flikka lol

generates three images:

• kristian-1.png
• flikka-1.png
• lol-1.png

Generating a pangram:

textrain the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

To generate all the letters in the alphabet, you might have to do a silly hack. The command textrain a b c d e will unfortunately interpret "abcde" as the only word, instead of three 1-letter words. This can be circumvented by running textrain omg a b c d e ...