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From: guckes@banach.math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes)
Subject: Re: how do u do ....?
Date: 1997/02/06
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flamester@hotmail.com (Aris Merquoni):
> > (1)  Take your camera and shoot some pics.
> > (2)  Scan the photos.
> > (3)  Convert them to JPEGs.
> > (4)  Convert the JPEGs to GIFs.  (tough)
> > (5)  Convert the GIFs to TIFFs.
> > (6)  Convert the TIFFs to Bitmaps.
> > (7)  Convert the Bitmaps to PostScript.
> > (7)  uuencode the PostScript.
> > (9)  Use an editor to fine-tune the uuencoded data.
> > (10) Post it ice-cold to alt.ascii.art.
> Why do you have to do steps 3, 4, and 5? My computer usually scans
> photos as TIFFs anyway, so you can just convert that to a bitmap.

Well, which TIFF?  There are many many TIFFs out there.
Doing JPEG->GIF->TIFF is the right way - trust me!
There is another way (via PDF->RTF->MAN->UAL) -
but this one is a lot more difficult to handle.

Sven