X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,2e241cb6008e6065 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-06 11:12:17 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!63.208.208.143!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!europa.netcrusader.net!205.252.116.205!howland.erols.net!panix!news.panix.com!qz!not-for-mail From: Eli the Bearded <*@qz.little-neck.ny.us> Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Exporting Ascii? Date: 6 Mar 2001 19:10:55 GMT Organization: Some absurd concept Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: news.panix.com 983905855 12396 166.84.0.230 (6 Mar 2001 19:10:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Mar 2001 19:10:55 GMT X-Files: Used for sharpening claws and teeth on your hawk and hacksaw X-Motto: "Erosion of rights never seems to reverse itself." -- kenny@panix X-US-Congress: Moronic Fucks. X-Attribution: EtB X-Usenet-II: Because it is time for October. Encrypted: double rot-13 X-Newsreader: Sony Playstation 5.0MIPS Xref: supernews.google.com alt.ascii-art:4561 In alt.ascii-art, Stuart Moore wrote: > Sascha wrote in message news:B6CAA776.B79B%psp@gmx.net... > > The only programs that do it right are Wordpad and IE 5.0, but they > > won't help me, because I need to fit the image to a certain size > > and save it as JPEG. > Try taking a screenshot of it looking how you want and then load that into a > graphics program. On windows this is done using the Print Screen button. Alternatively, if you have access to a Linux or other unix box, try the pbm tools. pbmtext -builtin fixed < image-text > image.pbm ppmtogif < image.pbm > image.gif GIF is better than JPEG (patent issues aside) since this is not going to have many colors. Elijah ------ pbmtoascii is not a very good ascii art converter, before you try