title: Automate conversion of text to PNG (or another file format with transparency)?
body: <p>I need to take a list of words and create a PNG file of each, with a transparent background. </p>
  
  <p>I’d like my script to allow for adjustable opacity of the foreground, but I can probably also do it after the fact when the images get imported into Matlab.</p>
  
  <p>I imagine this is doable with ImageMagick and have installed that on my Mac. If someone can give me the one line I’d need to turn a word into a PNG (the word can be the filename too) in Perl or Python, I can probably figure out the rest of the scripting.</p>