Re: Photos to ASCII
From J. Melusky <wha...@u.washington.edu>
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· 15 Feb 1997 00:00 · View full thread
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On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Judy or Andrew wrote: > I am very new to ASCII, please be gentle with me. > I am under the impression that there is a program that can take a > scanned image and turn it into ASCII. > I would like to try that, please give me step by step simple > instructions of the process or where to go to learn. > Thank-you, Judy Hi, Download one of these and fiddle with it until you get a few questions and then ask the group (alt.ascii-art) the questions. Put the name of the converter in the subject line and hopefully helpers will be reading the group that are gurus in what converter you are using. Conversion programs List: (Available as of Oct 31 1996) Host: ftp.wwa.com Address: 198.49.174.1 Path: pub/Scarecrow/Gifscii URL: ftp://ftp.wwa.com/pub/Scarecrow/Gifscii AlphaGifscii.exe 45Kb or (Available Oct 31 1996) Search http://www.shareware.com's Macintosh directory for 'markxy01.zip' or 'markxy00.zip' for a graphics to ascii program. or 'sig95_2g.zip' 'sigpro2d.zip' (Win3.1) for signature alphabet programs. or 'pixch020.zip' or 'emailasc.zip'for Bitmap to Ascii conversion programs. or (Available Nov 29 1996) Two BMP2TXT.zip programs can be found at: http://www.bsoftware.com/ssearch.htm They are for DOS. or (Available Nov 27 1996) BMP to ASCII program: http://ring.aist.go.jp/openlab/fumio/www/charac/index.html . Windows only. :-) The entry point is: http://ring.aist.go.jp/openlab/fumio/www/index.html or http://www.webserve.com/gateways/figletgateway.pl FIGLET program. or (Available Dec 6 1996) http://www.ualberta.ca/~crnelson/display.html or (Available Nov 21 1996) ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/incoming OS/2 FIGLET program. The Draw Fonts ftp://archie.au/pc/coast/msdos/screen/ansiltr2.zip ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/simtel/msdos/screen/ansiltr2.zip ftp://ftp.web.ad.jp/pub/mirrors/Coast/msdos/screen/ansiltr2.zip ftp://ftp.nic.surfnet.nl/mirror-archive/software/simtel-msdos/screen/ansiltr2.zip ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pc/mirror/Coast/msdos/screen/ansiltr2.zip ftp://ftp.agt.net/pub/Simtel/msdos/screen/ansiltr2.zip http://www.geocities.com/Paris/5997/tdrawfnt.zip (Feb 6 1997) Take care, Jon Melusky PS Let me know if any of these are defunct, ok?
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