Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 21 Apr 1998.
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All you need for ascii art: Monospaced Fonts, Text Editors and ASCII Utils
alt.ascii-art
· 2 messages · 21 Apr 1998 - 8 Aug 1998
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__ __ _
| \/ | ___ _ __ ___ ___ _ __ __ _ ___ ___ __| |
| |\/| |/ _ \| '_ \ / _ \/ __| '_ \ / _` |/ __/ _ \/ _` |
| | | | (_) | | | | (_) \__ \ |_) | (_| | (_| __/ (_| |
|_|_ |_|\___/|_| |_|\___/|___/ .__/ \__,_|\___\___|\__,_|
/ _| ___ _ __ | |_ ___ |_|
| |_ / _ \| '_ \| __/ __|
| _| (_) | | | | |_\__ \
|_| \___/|_| |_|\__|___/
Almost all ASCII art is created and intended to be viewed in a monospaced, or fixed width font. Find your operating system/computer on the list below and find a font on your system that is on the list.
Windows: FixedSys
Courier New
Courier
Lucida Console
Topaz New
Monotype.com
Terminal
Lucida Sans Typewiter
OCR A Extended
OCRB
Amiga: Topaz (In ROM)
Courier (Supplied with WorkBench 2+)
Pearl
Siesta
XEN (Comes with MagicWB)
XCourier (Comes with MagicWB)
ascii
tiny
AppleMac: Courier
Monaco
ZTerm
Acorn: Corpus, Homerton, System (all three in Resources)
If you can`t find any of the fonts on the list, please try looking at this in all fonts available:
iiiii iiiii iiiii iiiii|
mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm|
In a fixed width font, both of the | symbols should match in distance from the left side of the screen. If you find a common font that isn`t on the list, please email mar...@bigfoot.com and tell me about it, along with what operating system/computer it is from.
>-----------------------------------------------------<
_____ _
|_ _|____ _| |_
| |/ _ \ \/ / __|
| | __/> <| |_
_|_|\___/_/\_\\__|
| ____|__| (_) |_ ___ _ __ ___
| _| / _` | | __/ _ \| '__/ __|
| |__| (_| | | || (_) | | \__ \
|_____\__,_|_|\__\___/|_| |___/
A lot of ASCII art is made in a text editor - usually like a wordprocessor but without text formatting functions.
Unix: vi
pico
emacs
jed
joe
ed
Windows95: Notepad (Comes with Windows!)
EDIT.COM (Comes with windows!)
MicroEMACS
EditPad
PFE
UltraEdit (www.ultraedit.com)
TextPad (www.textpad.com)
Windows3: Notepad (Comes with Windows!)
MicroEMACS
PFE
UltraEdit (www.ultraedit.com)
MSDOS: EDIT.COM (Comes with DOS 5 and 6 - Type EDIT at command line)
QEdit
MicroEmacs
GNU Emacs
Amiga: Ed (On Workbench Disk - run 'Ed <filename>' in shell)
MicroEMACS (Supplied with Workbench on Extras disk)
Blacks Editor
CygnusEd
AZ
NotePad (included with Workbench 1.2 and 1.3)
AppleMac: Nisus
SimpleText (included with MacOS)
TeachText (included with MacOS)
Saint Edit (shareware $10)
BBEdit (commercial but free light version is available)
Tex-Edit Plus (shareware)
Linux: joe
nedit
Acorn: !Edit (in Resources)
>-----------------------------------------------------<
_ ____ ____ ___ ___
/ \ / ___| / ___|_ _|_ _| _ _ _ _ _
/ _ \ \___ \| | | | | | | | | | |_(_) |___
/ ___ \ ___) | |___ | | | | | | | | __| | / __|
/_/ \_\____/ \____|___|___|| |_| | |_| | \__ \
--------------------------- \___/ \__|_|_|___/
Some utils to help with the creation of ASCIIArt:
* FIGlet
This great program makes ascii 'banners' from text - the titles in
these lists are a good example.
A few more examples:
_____ ___ ____ _ _
| ___|_ _/ ___| | ___| |_
| |_ | | | _| |/ _ \ __|
| _| | | |_| | | __/ |_
|_| |___\____|_|\___|\__|
88888888888 88 ,ad8888ba, 88
88 88 d8"' `"8b 88 ,d
88 88 d8' 88 88
88aaaaa 88 88 88 ,adPPYba, MM88MMM
88""""" 88 88 88888 88 a8P_____88 88
88 88 Y8, 88 88 8PP""""""" 88
88 88 Y8a. .a88 88 "8b, ,aa 88,
88 88 `"Y88888P" 88 `"Ybbd8"' "Y888
8"""" 8 8""""8
8 8 8 " e eeee eeeee
8eeee 8e 8e 8 8 8
88 88 88 ee 8e 8eee 8e
88 88 88 8 88 88 88
88 88 88eee8 88eee 88ee 88
Various fonts are availiable (.flf files) and there are versions
of FIGlet for almost any operatinf system and computer type:
http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/chai/figlet.html
ftp://nicoh.com/pub/figlet/
There are also many online, web based versions of FIGlet available
also, one of which is http://www.surfplaza.com/figlet/
If you are a DOS user, you can get a GUI for DOS FIGlet at:
http://voices.vossnet.co.uk/a/atkins/fdg10.zip
which should make the running of FigDOS easier.
If required, I will email FigDos and the GUI in one zip file -
just email mar...@bigfoot.com and ask!
* GIFscii
GIFscii, and it`s variants, will take an image file (usually GIF)
and convert it to an ascii picture. The results arn`t brilliant,
but can serve as a good starting point for an ASCII picture
Do a web search for one of these, as they are everywhere.
Versions are available for a wide variety of operating systems
and computer types.
.- Sample output from BMP2ASC -----.
| ;$XXHXXXXXXX+. |
| :XXXHHHHHXHHHHXXX$. |
| /XXXXHHHXXHHHHHHHXXXH/ |
| /XXXXXHHH$HHHHHHHHHHHHH% |
| .XXXXXXHHX$HHHHHHHHHHHHHH; |
| ;XXXXXHX$XX$$$XHHHHHHHHXHX. |
| .$XXXH%/;;;::::;/$HHHHHHHXX; |
| =XXXHX//;;:::::;;/+HXHHHHHH$ |
| /HXXH$//;;;;::::;;/$XHHHHHXX- |
| %HXXH%/;;;;;;;;+$$%$XHHHHHHX/ |
| XXXXHX$X$%+//+++;$%HXHHHHHHX$. |
|.XXXXHX+/////://;///+$XHHH@HHHHH/.|
|,X$XXHH%;;;;/;///;;;+$XHHH@HHHH@@@|
|-X$XXH@H+/++/;/++;//%XHHHH@HHHH@@@|
|=$$XXHHH@@%%$$%++++%$XXHHHHHXH@@@@|
|=$$XXX$$@@@H%++++%%%$$XHXH@HH@@@@@|
|=$XHXX%$@@@@@%+++%$%$$XXXHH$H@@@@@|
|-+%XHHH@@@@@@@X+/+%$$$$$$%%/=$@@@@|
| //XXXH@@@@@@@@@@@@X%%++///=--/H@@|
| %XXHH@@@@@@@@@@@@X+;/;;=-,,,-$@|
| =XHXHH@@@@@@@@@@@@X/,. ..-,..,,/|
| $H@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@XH;....,......|
'------------------- for Windows! -'
>-----------------------------------------------------<
.-----------------------------------------.
|Compiled by Martin Atkins with help from:|
| * Veronica Karlsson |
| * Jorn Barger |
| * Colin Douthwaite |
| * Randy Gardner |
| * Ilmari Karonen |
| * aardvarko |
| * gumby |
| * Valentin Valciu |
| * Hayley Jane Wakenshaw |
| * llizard |
| * Sami Sihvonen |
| * Doug Wilson |
| * Brock Kevin Nambo |
| * Cipher |
| * Ben Norwood |
'-----------------------------------------'
>------------- Last Updated 20-04-98 -----------------<
Also available on the web at:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/minifaq.htm
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__ ________ _______________ ____
/ |/ / _/ | / / _/ ____/ | / __ \ _
/ /|_/ // // |/ // // /_ / /| |/ / / /(_)
/ / / // // /| // // __/ / ___ / /_/ /_ All the stuff you need for
/_/ /_/___/_/ |_/___/_/ /_/ |_\___\_(_) ASCII Art!
>------------------ By Martin Atkins -----------------<
Monospaced Fonts
Text Editors
Ascii Utils
>-----------------------------------------------------<
__ __ _
| \/ | ___ _ __ ___ ___ _ __ __ _ ___ ___ __| |
| |\/| |/ _ \| '_ \ / _ \/ __| '_ \ / _` |/ __/ _ \/ _` |
| | | | (_) | | | | (_) \__ \ |_) | (_| | (_| __/ (_| |
|_| |_|\___/|_| |_|\___/|___/ .__/ \__,_|\___\___|\__,_|
/ _| ___ _ |_|| |_ ___
| |_ / _ \| '_ \| __/ __|
| _| (_) | | | | |_\__ \
|_| \___/|_| |_|\__|___/
Almost all ASCII art is created and intended to be viewed in a monospaced,
or fixed width font. Find your operating system/computer on the list below
and find a font on your system that is on the list.
Windows: FixedSys (Supplied with Windows)
Courier New (Supplied with Windows)
Courier (Supplied with Windows)
Lucida Console (Supplied with Microsoft Win95 Plus!)
Topaz New
Monotype.com
Terminal
Lucida Sans Typewiter
OCR A Extended
OCRB
Amiga: Topaz (In ROM)
Courier (Supplied with WorkBench 2+)
Pearl
Siesta
XEN (Comes with MagicWB)
XCourier (Comes with MagicWB)
ascii
tiny
AppleMac: Courier
Monaco
ZTerm
Acorn: Corpus (in Resources)
Homerton (in Resources)
System (in Resources)
If you can`t find any of the fonts on the list, please try looking at this
in all fonts available:
iiiii iiiii iiiii iiiii|
mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm|
In a fixed width font, both of the | symbols should match in distance from
the left side of the screen. If you find a common font that isn`t on the
list, please email mar...@bigfoot.com and tell me about it, along
with what operating system/computer it is from.
.---- To get a Monospaced/Fixed Width font in MS Outlook Express -->
|Click Tools/ Options.
|Click the Read tab.
|Click the Fonts button.
|Select Courier or another fixed width font for ALL of the listboxes.
|Select Smallest.
|Click OK.
|Click OK.
'------------------ (Thanks to aardvarko) ------------------------->
>------------------------------------------------------<
_____ _
|_ _|____ _| |_
| |/ _ \ \/ / __|
| | __/> <| |_
_____ |_|\___/_/\_\\__|
| ____|__| (_) |_ ___ _ __ ___
| _| / _` | | __/ _ \| '__/ __|
| |__| (_| | | || (_) | | \__ \
|_____\__,_|_|\__\___/|_| |___/
A lot of ASCII art is made in a text editor - usually like a wordprocessor
but without text formatting functions.
Un*x: vi
pico
emacs
jed
joe
ed
jove
Windows95: Notepad (Comes with Windows!)
EDIT.COM (Comes with windows!)
MicroEMACS
EditPad
PFE32
UltraEdit (www.ultraedit.com)
TextPad (www.textpad.com - shareware)
Windows3: Notepad (Comes with Windows!)
MicroEMACS
PFE
UltraEdit (www.ultraedit.com)
MSDOS: EDIT (Comes with DOS 5/6 - Type EDIT at command line)
QEdit
MicroEmacs
GNU Emacs
TheDraw (shareware)
AcidDraw (shareware)
Amiga: Ed (On Workbench Disk - run 'Ed <filename>' in shell)
MicroEMACS (Supplied with Workbench on Extras disk)
Blacks Editor
CygnusEd
AZ
NotePad (included with Workbench 1.2 and 1.3)
TED (Included with ACID Blitz Basic 2.1)
SuperTED (Included with Blitz Basic support suite)
AppleMac: Nisus
SimpleText (included with MacOS)
TeachText (included with MacOS)
Saint Edit (shareware $10)
BBEdit (commercial but free light version is available)
Tex-Edit Plus (shareware)
Linux: joe
nedit
Acorn: !Edit (in Resources)
Atari: Everest
QED
Steno
EditPro
Commodore Zed
64/128: NovaPic
>------------------------------------------------------<
_ ____ ____ ___ ___
/ \ / ___| / ___|_ _|_ _| _ _ _ _ _
/ _ \ \___ \| | | | | | | | | | |_(_) |___
/ ___ \ ___) | |___ | | | | | | | | __| | / __|
/_/ \_\____/ \____|___|___|| |_| | |_| | \__ \
--------------------------- \___/ \__|_|_|___/
Some utils to help with the creation of ASCIIArt:
* FIGlet
This great program makes ascii 'banners' from text - the titles in
these lists are a good example.
A few examples:
_____ ___ ____ _ _
| ___|_ _/ ___| | ___| |_
| |_ | | | _| |/ _ \ __|
| _| | | |_| | | __/ |_
|_| |___\____|_|\___|\__|
88888888888 88 ,ad8888ba, 88
88 88 d8"' `"8b 88 ,d
88 88 d8' 88 88
88aaaaa 88 88 88 ,adPPYba, MM88MMM
88""""" 88 88 88888 88 a8P_____88 88
88 88 Y8, 88 88 8PP""""""" 88
88 88 Y8a. .a88 88 "8b, ,aa 88,
88 88 `"Y88888P" 88 `"Ybbd8"' "Y888
8"""" 8 8""""8
8 8 8 " e eeee eeeee
8eeee 8e 8e 8 8 8
88 88 88 ee 8e 8eee 8e
88 88 88 8 88 88 88
88 88 88eee8 88eee 88ee 88
Various fonts are availiable (.flf files) and there are versions of
FIGlet for almost any operating system and computer type:
http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/chai/figlet.html
ftp://nicoh.com/pub/figlet/
The windows version of FIGlet, FigWin, is still only in beta and has a
few bugs. Also, you dont always get the results you want without
experimenting with the options first. However it does have features
not found in many other versions, like vertical smushing and weird line
fitting.
There are also many online, web based versions of FIGlet available
also, one of which is http://www.surfplaza.com/figlet/
If you are a DOS user, you can get a GUI for DOS FIGlet at:
http://voices.vossnet.co.uk/a/atkins/fdg.htm
which should make the running of FigDOS easier.
FIGlet+the GUI are also available from this page.
If required, I will email FigDOS and the GUI in one zip file - just
email mar...@bigfoot.com and ask!
* GIFscii
GIFscii, and it`s variants, will take an image file (usually GIF) and
convert it to an ascii picture. The results arn`t brilliant, but can
serve as a good starting point for an ASCII picture.
Do a web search for one of these, as they are everywhere. Versions are
available for a wide variety of operating systems and computer types.
These conversions can be viewed as graphics using ASC2PIC, a program
that will basically 'draw' ascii art using grey pixels on the screen.
For a copy, email mar...@bigfoot.com.
Try the following URLs for a starting point
gopher://twinbrook.cis.uab.edu/1A/atools.70
ftp://ftp.wwa.com/pub/Scarecrow/Gifscii/.
[URLs taken from alt.ascii-art FAQ by Matthew Thomas]
.- Sample output from BMP2ASC -----.
| ;$XXHXXXXXXX+. |
| :XXXHHHHHXHHHHXXX$. |
| /XXXXHHHXXHHHHHHHXXXH/ |
| /XXXXXHHH$HHHHHHHHHHHHH% |
| .XXXXXXHHX$HHHHHHHHHHHHHH; |
| ;XXXXXHX$XX$$$XHHHHHHHHXHX. |
| .$XXXH%/;;;::::;/$HHHHHHHXX; |
| =XXXHX//;;:::::;;/+HXHHHHHH$ |
| /HXXH$//;;;;::::;;/$XHHHHHXX- |
| %HXXH%/;;;;;;;;+$$%$XHHHHHHX/ |
| XXXXHX$X$%+//+++;$%HXHHHHHHX$. |
|.XXXXHX+/////://;///+$XHHH@HHHHH/.|
|,X$XXHH%;;;;/;///;;;+$XHHH@HHHH@@@|
|-X$XXH@H+/++/;/++;//%XHHHH@HHHH@@@|
|=$$XXHHH@@%%$$%++++%$XXHHHHHXH@@@@|
|=$$XXX$$@@@H%++++%%%$$XHXH@HH@@@@@|
|=$XHXX%$@@@@@%+++%$%$$XXXHH$H@@@@@|
|-+%XHHH@@@@@@@X+/+%$$$$$$%%/=$@@@@|
| //XXXH@@@@@@@@@@@@X%%++///=--/H@@|
| %XXHH@@@@@@@@@@@@X+;/;;=-,,,-$@|
| =XHXHH@@@@@@@@@@@@X/,. ..-,..,,/|
| $H@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@XH;....,......|
'------------------- for Windows! -'
* TheDraw
TheDraw is primarily an ANSI editor, but is suitable for ASCII art
also. It features many features not availiable in most 'standard' text
editors, like filling an area with a character, or dragging a block
around. There are many features specific to DOS ansi editing, which
I will not go into here.
* AcidDraw
AcidDraw is a similar program developed by artists for artists. A
similar feel and feature set of TheDraw, but geared more towards a
static-screen (non-animated) drawing. It's sole purpose in life is to
create ASCII and ANSI art. Some nifty features include the ability to
flip screens horizontally and vertically and otherwise manipulate
text-based art in ways that a normal text-EDITOR simply can not do.
Also shareware. (And the programmer is still alive but no bugs have
ever been reported, to the fault of the software.)
[Text supplied by RaD Man]
Both TheDraw and ACiDDraw latest versions are available at
http://artpacks.acid.org/programs/editors/
Please note that none of these ASCII Utils are necesary for
creation of ASCII Art, but merely to aid creation
It is totally possible to make ASCII Art in any of the
editors on the 'Text Editors' list.
TheDraw and AcidDraw, however are editors in their own
right, so could be used instead of a 'traditional'
text editor.
>------------------------------------------------------<
.-----------------------------------------.
|Compiled by Martin Atkins with help from:|
| * Veronica Karlsson |
| * Jorn Barger |
| * Colin Douthwaite |
| * Randy Gardner |
| * Ilmari Karonen |
| * aardvarko |
| * gumby |
| * Valentin Valciu |
| * Hayley Jane Wakenshaw |
| * llizard |
| * Sami Sihvonen |
| * Doug Wilson |
| * Brock Kevin Nambo |
| * Cipher |
| * Ben Norwood |
| * Matthew Thomas |
| * RaD Man |
| * natedac |
| * Joergen |
'-----------------------------------------'
>------------- Last Updated 23-07-98 -----------------<
Also available on the web at:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/minifaq.htm
http://www.ludd.luth.se/users/vk/q/mga_faq.html
http://bungleandmart.dyn.ml.org/i/ighaig/ascmfaq.htm
http://voices.vossnet.co.uk/a/atkins/ascmfaq.htm
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