Re: Proportional Fonts - AOL macro art

On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Faux_Pseudo wrote:
> _.-In alt.ascii-art, pep...@gmail.com wrote the following -._
>> oops, the working link is http://www.angelfire.com/ca/CpRiDeAndDC/
>
> The fonts aren't displaying right in Firefox 2.
> It is treating them like fixed width fonts like one would use for
> ascii art but macro art doesn't use fixed fonts.

FWIW, the page doesn't seem to be using a fixed-width font now.
Firefox 2 on Windows XP displays it with a proportional font, but
it doesn't look like the font the OP was expecting!
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~ajo/disseminate/pepsi.png

   If you're displaying visual information, use an image. (PNG is a
nice format.) ASCII art only works if you know that everybody else
uses the same font that you do (or one close enough not to matter).
Even within the ASCII-art world, there are plenty of problems with
fonts: black-on-white printer art versus white-on-black screen art,
for example; or art formatted for the 8x14 (IIRC) aspect ratio of a
DOS console versus the 8x16 aspect ratio of Courier New.

HTH.

-Arthur,
heretic

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