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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 12 Nov 1998.

                            
    
    
Re: Converting Ansi art to Html pages?
    
                        


                                            

                

            

        


    

        

            

                

                    
Re: Converting Ansi art to Html pages?

                    

                        From Axe <ax...@nettaxi.com>
                        · alt.ascii-art
                        · 12 Nov 1998 00:00                                                    · View full thread
                                            

                

            

        


        

            

                

                    

                        
Hilton Janfield wrote:

> > I'm currently in the process of writing an ANSi to HTML convertor....  so
> > email me if you want a copy when I get a working(ish) version written..
>
> ANSI straight to HTML won't work..
> I tried it a while back.
> The problem is that no fonts are the same as the DOS charset, except for
> 'Terminal', which is windows specific - and even Terminal, when used on the
> web, does not match the DOS charset. The only way to do it would be to write
> it to an image.
> To create an exact duplicate of the DOS charset in the image, it would have
> to be 720 pixels wide (that is the pixel width of an 80 column screen).

I already found one.. it's being released with my ANS2HTML convertor

John



                    

                

            

        


        

            

                

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