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I believe I've seen one or more utilities, possibly command-line or Applescript, which will take a string and create, for example, an image containing that text with the specified font size, etc.

I can't find it again. Does anyone have a hint?

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ImageMagick doesn't come with OS X, but it should though.

convert -background skyblue -border 10 -bordercolor skyblue -fill 'hsb(10%,50%,50%)' -font /Library/Fonts/Arial\ Narrow.ttf -pointsize 24 label:"some text" output.png

If you have to specify some more complex styles, using webkit2png might be easier.

echo "<style>em {padding:5px}</style><em>Test</em>" > test.html
webkit2png test.html --clipwidth=55 --clipheight=35 --scale 1 -C
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    You should save temporary files to /tmp rather than the desktop, just in case rm fails for some reason and the user sees a new file on their desktop.
    – kirb
    Sep 26, 2011 at 10:20
  • Thanks. This product seems to create a screen shot of a webpage, if I understand correctly, a bit of a long way around. I really think there's a simple utility that does text-to-jpg (say) directly.
    – hen3ry
    Sep 27, 2011 at 0:08
  • Right, agreed, but in this case I'm looking for just the bare bones, being able to specify the font name and size, period.
    – hen3ry
    Sep 28, 2011 at 1:19
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Image Magick will do what you want, I believe. It's not built-in.

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