Generate images from large list of words

Question

This is a bit of an odd question, but basically I'm trying to create a set of Pictionary cards for a game. To do this, I have a list of 1500 nouns separated by newlines and I need each of them to be placed on individual PNG files of a specific resolution. Is there an easy way of doing this?

Answer 1

This is a simple task for ImageMagick. The caption tool allows for word wrapping, though if it's just nouns then that might not be a concern. An example command would look like this:

convert -background black -fill white -pointsize 32 \
        -size 500x300 -gravity center caption:'WORD' WORD.png

Here's the resulting PNG:

Then all you need is a script to input your words file and feed them in to that command. Here's how to do it with bash:

#!/bin/bash
while IFS='' read -r line || [[ -n "$line" ]]; do
    convert -background black -fill white -pointsize 32 \
            -size 500x300 -gravity center caption:$line $line.png
done < "$1"

Usage would be ./scriptname words-file.txt