How to make image from font

[burnsal]

I have searched and searched but I cannot find any code or exisitng program that can create an image from a font.

I want to be able to scan all of the fonts on my computer and output a GIF/JPEG image of the font.

There are several thousand fonts so it would have to be automated.

I have messed around in VB but cannot create antialiased font images only poor quality blocky fonts.

Any ideas?

[Nutter]

You could do it with ImageMagick. I don't know about being able to do all of them at once, but it should be pretty easy to write a script (VB, PHP, whatever) that will look through every .ttf file and make a .gif with the same name.