Have any of you guys (or girls) used the postscript text function in netpbm? I've written a shell script to grab a frame from a wintv card, stick the time and date on it and then stick it on a server. So far I've been using pbmtext but i'd really like to use pbmtextps so I can use a nice font instead. Problem is the pbmtextps app complains:

Error reading magic number from Netpbm image stream

The wierd thing is that the error comes from pnmcrop and not pbmtextps.

Any ideas?

If you don't find a solution to your problem, give Image Magick a try http://www.imagemagick.org/

Never heard of pbmtextps, but I believe you can specify a specific font to use for pbmtext. So if you just want to use a different or prettier font,

pbmtext -font '-adobe-times-medium-r-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'

You can play around with xfontsel to see what fonts are available on your system.

I tried that but the app said it couldn't find the font. On closer inspection it seems the font files needed are of the BDF variety. I can't seem to find any on my system. Oh well, off to try imagemagik now.