Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 11 Apr 1998.
ascii art software
alt.ascii-art
· 7 messages · 11 Apr 1998 - 14 Apr 1998
does anyone know of a software for making ascii art ?
>does anyone know of a software for making ascii art ?
Notepad, Edit, SimpleText or ae.
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cd wrote in message <352...@dot.com>...
>Message-id: <6gp7v7$h3c$3...@news7.ispnews.com> >>does anyone know of a software for making ascii art ? You mean that magic button I have on my computer? I press it and a new ASCII art picture pops out! :) today's "pop" _ _ (q\_/p) /. .\ __ ,__ =\_t_/= .'o O'-. ) / \ / O o_.-`| _ _ ( (( )) /O_.-' O | (q\_/p) \ /\) (/\ | o o o| /. .\.-"""""-. ___, jgs `-\ Y / |o o O.-` =\_t_/= / `\ ( nn^nn | O _.-' )\ ))__ __\ |___) '--` nn-nn` `nn---' heehee-- Actually notepad and my keyboard do just fine, thak you... -joan -- _ [E| .-=====|-. | mail | | joan stark |________|___ spu...@juno.com || || ASCII ART GALLERY: || www http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/ ,;, || )_(,;;;, <_> \ || \|/ \_/ \|/ \\|| \\| |// _jgs_\|//_\\|///_\V/_\|//__
cd <c...@dot.com> wrote:
>does anyone know of a software for making ascii art ?
Yep...it's called a Text Editor or Word Processor...then you do it
all yourself with the keyboard.
But first...get a copy of the FAQ and read, mark, learn, and inwardly
digest the contents. :-)
============================================================================
-------The ASCII ART FAQ Ten Commandments.---------
\\\\`///
/ _ _| 1/ Thou shalt read the FAQ.
(\'('\/') 2/ Thou shalt not remove the
______/( >(__ Signature from any ASCII ART.
/`- \ \_=__| `\ 3/ Thou shalt not claim the Ownership
/ /__( _____\ _____ of someone else's ASCII ART.
/_ \.____ ," "." ",__ 4/ Thou shalt read the FAQ.
| / _\__/_ - / \ 5/ Thou shalt ask permission
\/ /____ \ASCII ART FAQ /// before using Someone else's
) / / \__\ - | ASCII ART.
'-.__|_/ ///| I VI | 6/ Thou shalt not sell Someone
\_ | | | else's ASCII ART.
| | II VII | 7/ Thou shalt read the darn FAQ.
\ | | | 8/ Thou shalt not post
/ | III VIII | unaccredited ASCII ART without
\ | | | mentioning that you didn't make it.
\_ | IV IX | 9/ Thou shalt not assume that
\| | | ASCII ART isn't ART at all.
| V X | 10/ Thou shalt read the FAQing FAQ.
|______b'ger______|
a copy of the FAQ can be found at:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/faq.htm
tutorials also available there!
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Bye,
In article <199...@ladder03.news.aol.com>, spu...@aol.com (Spunk1111) wrote: > > >Message-id: <6gp7v7$h3c$3...@news7.ispnews.com> > >>does anyone know of a software for making ascii art ? > > You mean that magic button I have on my computer? > I press it and a new ASCII art picture pops out! :) > > today's "pop" > _ _ > (q\_/p) > /. .\ __ > ,__ =\_t_/= .'o O'-. > ) / \ / O o_.-`| _ _ > ( (( )) /O_.-' O | (q\_/p) > \ /\) (/\ | o o o| /. .\.-"""""-. ___, > jgs `-\ Y / |o o O.-` =\_t_/= / `\ ( > nn^nn | O _.-' )\ ))__ __\ |___) > '--` nn-nn` `nn---' [snip] > -- > joan stark > spu...@juno.com > ASCII ART GALLERY: > http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/ . "", &&& / && * > / && _C ,"" EEeeee! MICE \ )( / \ \__/ ) ( ( | | \ | | \| | /_| | / | |__)__)__ | | | | oo__ | | <;___)------ | ejm97 | oo__ " " <;___)------ " " /\ &&&&& __/_|\_&&&&&&& ( ,--\|-|, .& | \ | \ v | \| \, Actually, they're kind of cute. | /_| "" | / | |__)__)__ | | | | oo__ | | <;___)------ | ejm98 | oo__ " " <;___)------ " " NOTE: If you hit the reply button, add an "e" to the "freent"; its absense is to stop the torment of automatic mailers. __ /\ | | / \ | | | !/\ /__\ | | | __ |__| | ---%^^^, / \ | | | | | | | / \/ > / \ \__/ \__/ | | . > ejm >,^ THey're much bigger than /| I thought.... | \ _ _ (q\_/p) /. .\ __ ,__ =\_t_/= .'o O'-. ) / \ / O o_.-`| _ _ ( (( )) /O_.-' O | (q\_/p) \ /\) (/\ | o o o| /. .\.-"""""-. ___, jgs `-\ Y / |o o O.-` =\_t_/= / `\ ( nn^nn | O _.-' )\ ))__ __\ |___) '--` nn-nn` `nn---' -- llizard aka ejm cq5...@freenet.toronto.on.ca www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/ ASCII-art and Javascript ASCII-animations
See message 352...@news.vossnet.net, titled "All you need for asciiart: Viewing Fonts, Text Editors, and ASCII Utilities" about five pages up in your newsreader. Martin's got the skinny on everything you want to know (and also what you don't ;-) What no sig? The devil, you say! - A. Birdsong -g-
.----- On Sun, 12 Apr 1998 13:20:56 -0700, gar <ga...@sj.znet.com> posted:
|See message 352...@news.vossnet.net, titled
|"All you need for asciiart: Viewing Fonts, Text Editors,
|and ASCII Utilities" about five pages up in your newsreader.
|Martin's got the skinny on everything you want to know (and
|also what you don't ;-)
'----------------------
Hehe!
Here is the mentioned list:
>-----------------------------------------------------<
__ __ _
| \/ | ___ _ __ ___ ___ _ __ __ _ ___ ___ __| |
| |\/| |/ _ \| '_ \ / _ \/ __| '_ \ / _` |/ __/ _ \/ _` |
| | | | (_) | | | | (_) \__ \ |_) | (_| | (_| __/ (_| |
|_|_ |_|\___/|_| |_|\___/|___/ .__/ \__,_|\___\___|\__,_|
/ _| ___ _ __ | |_ ___ |_|
| |_ / _ \| '_ \| __/ __|
| _| (_) | | | | |_\__ \
|_| \___/|_| |_|\__|___/
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
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
>-----------------------------------------------------<
_ ____ ____ ___ ___
/ \ / ___| / ___|_ _|_ _| _ _ _ _ _
/ _ \ \___ \| | | | | | | | | | |_(_) |___
/ ___ \ ___) | |___ | | | | | | | | __| | / __|
/_/ \_\____/ \____|___|___|| |_| | |_| | \__ \
--------------------------- \___/ \__|_|_|___/
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 |
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