more things to search for and learn about, will give you more insights;

ghostscript - converts text to various image formats (platform independent -
based on postscript fonts for 'rendering') file formats supported include
tiff.

pdfwriter - could be possibly accessed using windows (a windows printer
driver that converts any 'windows printable file' to pdf, which can then be
converted to a tiff)

imagemagick - several functions will render text into an image file.  for
small text blocks this would work, but for full pages of fancifully
formatted text, youd be forced to manage the fancy placement - in essence
your program would be responsible for the page layout.  there is a command
line version, and a perl interface - though I don't know how current the
perl interface is.

latex, enscript, 



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