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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 14 Feb 1998.
Re: The Best way to make ASCII Art.

Re: The Best way to make ASCII Art.

>Please, take it to news:alt.binaries.clip-art, they _need_ it! It is
way
>off-topic for this group.

Workingear, workingear... :) I had stopped getting alt.binaries.clip-art
for a while because of hard disk space concerns, but I'll probably try
it again. Sorry about the off-topic, but anything to enlighten another
Usenetter... :]

>Hehe, I did the same thing... And got it down to 11k

Photoshop probably added some overhead... it tends to put in thumbnails
and paths and lots of goobly gicky stuff.

>(though I suspect
>it would have been even smaller if it had been done correctly to begin
>with).

Yeah, probably. JPEG is a good format, but those artifacts are horrible.

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Veronica Karlsson wrote in message <34E...@on.spammer>...

[snip]

>Please, take it to news:alt.binaries.clip-art, they _need_ it! It is
way
>off-topic for this group.
>
>> On a side note, by taking your JPEG and converting it to a GIF, it
went
>> down to 15,487 bytes file size. :) That's a lot off 95K. If GeoCities
>> lets me upload it, you can get the GIFed version at
>>
>> http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/2672/barn.gif
>>
>
>Hehe, I did the same thing... And got it down to 11k (though I suspect
>it would have been even smaller if it had been done correctly to begin
>with).
>
>http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/rubbish/NOT_ascii_6.gif


    [snip]

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