My apologies for the exceptional slow progress on this project, but here's finally a revised version that I made this weekend, http://www.mediafire.com/download/sbu0pks72tcsb2d/Poolside_in_QC_v4.zip.
I have attempted to avoid the "one word on each line" setting that was prominent in the previous versions, but the shape of some of the bubbles was not quite cooperative. I have cheated a bit by reducing the font used for the "…", and I hope that is a forgivable sin.
And, Multiball, thank you very much for your offer about batch command-line utilities. I might get back to that later on - but I would first for the sake of pure stubbornness see if I can finish the GIMP-scripts I started upon during Christmas (I haven't had time to look upon them since then, so it could very well be a pipe dream to think that I somehow should succeed now).