Question

I have a problem where I need a way to display a repeating series of ‘images’ on a computer monitor. Specifically, given a series of text files, I’d like a way to display the contents of said files on a screen in a way much like a powerpoint would.

My current thoughts are to find some tool that will take in a text file of some format, and then output an image which contains the text from the file. Then I’d put it in a directory and have some Slideshow program continuously go between the images in that directory. It’s a very hacky solution, obviously.

So, does anyone know of tools that would do such a thing? Or is there a better way to do this? I’ve looked into the library libgd2, but it doesn’t seem to support text-wrapping for images, which is something I’d need.

Thanks!

Answer 1

MagicPoint is a tool for displaying presentations. Presentations are written in a simple plain text file format, much like HTML.

You could easily generate the MagicPoint file automatically and then run it and display the presentation. You can also generate HTML, PS oder PDF from the presentation and display that.