Posted by Terry Pinnell on 03/10/06 15:20

Jim Higson <jh@333.org> wrote:

>In general, the command line is good because it lets you do things the
>original program creators didn't think of. For example, I recently had to
>produce raster images containing the first few hundread square numbers. I
>don't think this could have easily been done with GUI software.

Thanks.

I'm curious about that interesting last point. You mean you had to
produce N images, each just containing a single number 1, 4, 9... etc?
Of a certain size and font/background colour?

If so, I suppose I'd have fired up IrfanView and played with my
keystroke-entering macro program, Stiletto (now obsolete), to automate
a series of operations like:
- Open new file
- Draw a text rectangle
- Copy text from a pre-established Excel column, selecting next row
each time
- Pasted it into IV's text box (using pre-established font size and
colour, etc)
- Saved file


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Terry, West Sussex, UK

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