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Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> At the moment I use Image Magick to generate pictures for quotes. For
> example:
>      https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=391593267579727
>
> This is fairly easy. But I was thinking about doing it with
> postscript. But then I have define the size of the output and this is
> depending on the input. Is there a way to solve this?
>

Speaking a long standing programmer in the graphics arts
and pre-press industry, I'd stick with what you've got.

Various things could be made to work, but unless you've got a BIG
problem with your current process - don't change it.

  BugBear