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ppmdraw — Draw lines, text, and more on a PPM image by executing a script. Documentation on the utilized scrip

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Problem

How to use the ppmdraw command: Draw lines, text, and more on a PPM image by executing a script. Documentation on the utilized scripting language can be found by following the link below. More information: <https://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/ppmdraw.html>.

Solution

ppmdraw — Draw lines, text, and more on a PPM image by executing a script. Documentation on the utilized scripting language can be found by following the link below. More information: <https://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/ppmdraw.html>.

Draw on the specified PPM image by executing the supplied script:

ppmdraw -script '{{setpos 50 50; text_here "hello!"; }}' {{path/to/image.pnm}} > {{path/to/output.pnm}}

Draw on the specified PPM image by executing the script in the specified file:

ppmdraw -scriptfile {{path/to/script}} {{path/to/image.pnm}} > {{path/to/output.pnm}}

Code Snippets

Draw on the specified PPM image by executing the supplied script

ppmdraw -script '{{setpos 50 50; text_here "hello!"; }}' {{path/to/image.pnm}} > {{path/to/output.pnm}}

Draw on the specified PPM image by executing the script in the specified file

ppmdraw -scriptfile {{path/to/script}} {{path/to/image.pnm}} > {{path/to/output.pnm}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/ppmdraw

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