X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,99b1746ae760951a X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-08 16:39:16 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!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: ideas for jave!? Date: 8 May 2001 23:39:15 GMT Organization: Some absurd concept Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <3af8480f.20052800@news.verio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix1.panix.com X-Trace: news.panix.com 989365155 5777 166.84.0.226 (8 May 2001 23:39:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 May 2001 23:39:15 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: newsfeed.google.com alt.ascii-art:5688 In alt.ascii-art, MJP wrote: > lastfuture wrote: > >oh and what about a ascii to image converter? :) > If you have windows(x) you can view you ascii, hit the printscreen key > then in most any graphics program use edit/paste to insert a screen shot > which can then be edited to just the area you want. There's some key combo to do screen grabs on Macs, too. And X windows has xwd: X window dump. But one of the better ways to do it is use pbmtext, a Unix command line tool. It is not limited to making things that can fit on your screen. Then you can scale those images to produce interesting effects. Here is the image2ascii "comp1d" image as converted to 320 char wide ascii and then scaled to a ~ 640x800 GIF: http://www.panix.com/~eli/A2I/ Elijah ------ loves command line image editing