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Asked: 2026-05-29T17:05:52+00:00

I need to create images of the first page of some source code text

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I need to create images of the first page of some source code text files, like asp or php or js files for example.
I usually accomplish this by typing a command like

enscript --no-header --pages=1 "${input_file}" -o - | ps2pdf - "${temp_pdf_file}"
convert -quality 100 -density 150x150 -append "${temp_pdf_file}"[0] "${output_file}"
trash "${temp_pdf_file}"

This works nice for my needs, but it obviously outputs an image “as is” with no “eye-candy” features.
I was wondering if there’s a way to add syntax highlighting too.
This might come handy to speed up the creation of presentations of developed works for example.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Pygments is a source highlighting library which has PNG, JPEG, GIF and BMP formatters. No intermediate steps:

    pygmentize -o jquery.png jquery-1.7.1.js

    Edit: adding source code image to the document means you are doing it wrong to begin with. I would suggest LaTeX, Markdown or similar for the whole document and source code document could be generated.

    Another easy/lazy way would be to create an html document using pygmentize and copy-paste it to the document. Not professional, but better than raster image.

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