There any "Text to Image" converter for Vista ?

BeerWolf · 18-04-2009 6:31am #1

I've been using TXT2JPG to convert text into images so that I could read them on my Creative Zen:M... sort of like an e-book.

But that above app doesn't work with Vista

Anyone know of another app [free] that does the same thing THAT works on Vista?

Kevster · 19-04-2009 1:28am

Why don't you just hit the Print Screen key, which takes a snapshot of whatever is being displayed on the monitor? You can then paste the image into a regular image viewing software prog. such as MS Paint and cut out the text that you want, followed by saving it as it's own image.

watty · 19-04-2009 10:26am

Or even Alt Prtscn, to copy just active window. But it's very tedious for an entire book.

Capt'n Midnight · 19-04-2009 4:47pm

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ and print to a multipage tiff

watty · 20-04-2009 2:32pm

Not many, if any PDA/PMP etc will read tiff at all, or read more than 1st page. Sadly many programmers implementing appeared to not notice the multipage feature (pretty much always been there).

BeerWolf · 27-04-2009 8:57am

Kevster wrote: »

Why don't you just hit the Print Screen key, which takes a snapshot of whatever is being displayed on the monitor? You can then paste the image into a regular image viewing software prog. such as MS Paint and cut out the text that you want, followed by saving it as it's own image.

Try doing THAT for 300 pages worth of text...

Additionally, I don't like the idea of 'resizing' an image of text, simply because it really lowers it's resolution making it more of a strain to read it.

Alun · 27-04-2009 11:42am

What you can do, although it's a bit awkward, is to use PDFCreator and print to a multi page TIFF file. Then split the multi page TIFF into separate TIFF files, and then convert them to JPG. FastStone Image Viewer (free) will do both those things for you (it has a multipage to single page converter, and a batch mode converter), although there may be other options.

Capt'n Midnight · 27-04-2009 1:11pm

get pdf split and merge www.pdfsam.org/ and split to separate pages then highlight all the pdf's in the folder and print them in one go

For this you setup pdfcreator options to autosave files

formats - probably png or tiff if using a black and white document as you may want lossless compression to preserve the font, with jpeg you can play around with the quality , higher means less distortion

play around with the dpi too
if you have pure text then look at the fonts try Verdana as it's easy to read at small sizes

There any "Text to Image" converter for Vista ?

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