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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 15 May 2006.
Re: How to batch process ascii art images ?

Re: How to batch process ascii art images ?

On Sun, 14 May 2006 23:04:18 +0200, Jean-Baptiste PERIN <jb_...@yahoo.fr> wrote:

>Hi everybody ..
>
>I'm looking for a way to batch convert images into ascii files in order 
>to produce ascii anims.
>
>I've found many websites providing high quality converters for singles 
>images ... and I'm trying to get command line softwares allowing to 
>process multiple files through a script.
>
>I use cygwin
>
>I was planning to use ImageMagick to convert image into a PxM format .. 
>and then use aview to convert this PxM image into an ascii file ..
>
>But the problem is that aview doesn't give me hand back after execution 
>.. (should I use expect to batch command it .. and then how to record 
>result into a file?)
>
>Moreover .. I find aview output ugly compared to web converters (for 
>instance white areas are filled with "@" intead of space as web 
>converter usually do).
>
>Is there an option to ask aview to ouput white areas as space ?
>
>Is there a better software to do what I want to do ?
>
>I heard about "mplayer -vo aa " .. but aalib doesn't work with mplayer 
>on my XP system .. and I don't know how to get them working together ..:(
>
>Please Help
>
>Jean-Baptiste ..
>
>

I have not used the batch conversion myself, but you want to try Jave6
http://www.jave.de/

lgbeard

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