Exist an image format in ascii/ansi ?

[myspacee]

Hello to all,
I'm working for a newspaper. I've a strange question.

I need to update some value in a table (sports standings);
my system accept some common images format (tif, pdf, eps, ps).

Exist an image format in plain text, that i can use to replacing some values,
and the convert to a supported image format ? (tif, pdf, eps, ps)
(replacing is demanded to a third part application)

I'm sorry for bad english, any help will be appreciated,

m.

[fmw42]

see txt: format at http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/files/#txt

[myspacee]

hard way,
i must calc all coordinates everytime, to put my values in a template.

think about Latex format, anyone have experience with this ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX

IM can manipulate its object ?

m.

[anthony]

Latex generates vector images in the form of DVI. That can ve converted to Postscript and PDF which IM can handle via its ghostscript delegate.

However the DVI can also be directly converted to image formats I believe! Not certain, its been nearly a decade since I used TeX and LaTeX.

[vonbiber]

In the texmf distribution there is a tool that allow you to convert a dvi file to png:
dvipng [options] yourfile.dvi
(you can 'man dvipng' for more details)
There's a similar tool for a gif output: dvigif