Lorem Ipsum Generator

Lorem Ipsum Generator provides a GTK+ graphical user interface, a command-line interface, and a Python module that generate random "lorem ipsum" text. The Lorem Ipsum Generator can produce a given quantity of paragraphs or sentences of "lorem ipsum" text. "Lorem ipsum" text is also known as "lipsum" text.

See an example of the output.

Features

The output of the program is quite natural looking, for "lorem ipsum" text.

• Non-repeating
• Generated by analysis of a sample text to give natural-looking results (more info, and sample output)
• Optional control over generated sentence and paragraph lengths (more info)
• Output in plain text, HTML paragraphs or HTML lists

There are several interfaces to generate "lorem ipsum" text through this application:

• GTK+ user interface
• Command-line interface (more info)
• Python module (more info)

The command-line interface and Python module should make it easily embeddable into other applications, e.g. text editors (example).

Installation

See: Installation on Windows or Installation on Linux.

Documentation

• About - about "lorem ipsum" text, and how this program generates it
• Advanced features documentation - meaning of advanced features
• API overview - overview and examples for the Python module API
• Gedit plugin
• Installation on Windows
• Installation on Linux
• Command-line interface documentation - examples and documentation

Screenshot

A screenshot of the Lorem Ipsum Generator 0.3 running on Ubuntu 9.04, with Python 2.6.2 and PyGTK 2.14.1.

Alternative tools

If you are unlikely to require "lorem ipsum" text very frequently, you may find it more convenient to use the online service provided by lipsum.com.