pbmtext

Render text as a PBM image. tldr-pages

On several platforms

Several platforms

Render a single line of text as a PBM image

pbmtext "Hello World!" >path/to/output.pbmIdentify

Render multiple lines of text as a PBM image

echo "Hello\nWorld!" | pbmtext >path/to/output.pbmIdentify

Render text using a custom font supplied as a PBM file

pbmtext -font path/to/font.pbm "Hello World!" >path/to/output.pbmIdentify

Specify the number of pixels between characters and lines

echo "Hello\nWorld!" | pbmtext -space 3 -lspace 10 >path/to/output.pbmIdentify