1 This is the README of the showtext tool, which is part of the GraphLCD
4 written by Andreas Regel (andreas.regel AT powarman.de)
6 See the file COPYING for license information.
11 showtext is a program to show a user defined text with a user defined
12 font on a graphical LC Display. It supports all controllers the GraphLCD
13 driver library supports.
15 The font must be in a special format (*.fnt), which can be created with
21 showtext [-c CONFIGFILE] [-d DISPLAY] [-f FONT] [-x XPOS] [-y YPOS] [-uib] text [more text]
23 -c --config specifies the location of the config file
24 (default: /etc/graphlcd.conf)
25 -d --display specifies the output display
26 (default: the first one in config file)
27 -f --font specifies the font that is used for the text output
28 -x --xpos specifies the x-position where the text starts
29 -y --ypos specifies the y-position where the text starts
30 -u --upsidedown rotates the output by 180 degrees (default: no)
31 -i --invert inverts the output (default: no)
32 -b --brightness set brightness for display if driver support it [%]
33 (default: config file value)
35 example: showtext -c /etc/graphlcd.conf -f f17.fnt "Line1" "Line2"