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in reply to How to run pbmtextps from inside Perl script

I can't reproduce you error, it runs fine from the shell, from a script and with:

perl -e 'system("pbmtextps -fontsize 24 SampleText > out.pbm")'

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and the 'out.pbm' file is valid.

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Re^2: How to run pbmtextps from inside Perl script
by James Board (Beadle) on Feb 08, 2014 at 19:47 UTC
    Thanks, I eventually figured it out. See ANSWER in original queston.
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