Convert Images to Typographic Text the quick way

Convert your images to Typographic text with the help of textorizer.
If you don't want to compile the code on your Mac you can use the online version
providing you have pictures that are on-line of course.
The picture above was created with the first version of textorizer.
To compile it you need to first install the libpng library.
So the first step is to install and unpack the libpng-1.2.23.tar.gz
click on the file once downloaded, to unpack it.

Then Open Terminal and type the line below:

cd Desktop/libpng-1.2.23; ./configure; make; sudo make install;

This will build and install the library. At some stage it will ask you for super user password to install the library.
Next to compile texturizer you need to change the source code (use stdlib.h instead of malloc .h ) so you can comment it out as follows:

#ifdef linux
#include <malloc.h>
#endif

Then compile it.

gcc -o textorizer textorizer.c -lm -lpng

Then to execute it type:
./textorizer

It should then display the lines below:

textorizer version $Id: textorizer.c,v 1.5 2006/03/01 14:16:15 mf Exp $

usage: ./textorizer [options]
-s : number of objects to display (default: 1000)
-o : SVG output file name (default: out.svg)
-i : PNG input file name (default: in.png)
-w : word file name (default: words.txt)

The output will be an out.svg file if you do not specify one.

So the command will use the MustangSide.png as the image and use
mustang.txt as the text. The output file will be out.svg which you can convert
to another format using a web browser. The textorizer eps version works better for file conversion and requires no tweaks to the code.

./textorizer -i MustangSide.png -w mustang.txt

Enjoy.