Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 28 Feb 2002.
Gif to Ascii Converter
alt.ascii-art
· 14 messages · 28 Feb 2002 - 18 Mar 2002
Hi! I need a gif to ascii converter...does anybody know one? no matter if online or a programm... thank you!
Hi!
par...@gmx.de wrote:
>I need a gif to ascii converter
I suppose the GIF to be b/w (use any image handling program to achieve this)
Use giftopnm to convert it to a portable bitmap and then pbmtoascii to convert
that format to ASCII. Some excerpt from the pbmtoascii man page will help you
when using nont b/w pictures. Note that the tools mentioned are command line-
based so they should work under any OS at hand (even Windows Monday Edition).
NAME
pbmtoascii - convert a portable bitmap into ASCII graphics
SYNOPSIS
pbmtoascii [-1x2|-2x4] [pbmfile]
DESCRIPTION
Reads a portable bitmap as input. Produces a somewhat
crude ASCII graphic as output.
Note that there is no asciitopbm tool - this transforma�
tion is one-way.
OPTIONS
The -1x2 and -2x4 flags give you two alternate ways for
the bits to get mapped to characters. With 1x2, the
default, each character represents a group of 1 bit across
by 2 bits down. With -2x4, each character represents 2
bits across by 4 bits down. With the 1x2 mode you can see
the individual bits, so it's useful for previewing small
bitmaps on a non-graphics terminal. The 2x4 mode lets you
display larger bitmaps on a standard 80-column display,
but it obscures bit-level details. 2x4 mode is also good
for displaying graymaps - "pnmscale -width 158 | pgmnorm |
pgmtopbm -thresh" should give good results.
Jupp
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You might try GifSCII.EXE, it's only 60K and takes less than 1 second to download. http://members.aol.com/tony5870 It's a DOS programme that requires you to type the path to the gif to be converted. I recommend first resizing the gif less than 80 pixels wide and keep the length in proportion and then resize the height only to about half. It will create a *.asc file with the same name as the *.gif designed to be viewed in dos (black backgroud) so if you want it to look right in something link Notepad remember to use the "invert" command before you save it. "(�`�.��flow��.���)" <par...@gmx.de> wrote in message news:a5m5t4$418$01$1...@news.t-online.com... > Hi! > I need a gif to ascii converter...does anybody know one? > no matter if online or a programm... > > thank you! > >
http://www.degraeve.com/gif2txt.shtml "(�`�.��flow��.���)" <par...@gmx.de> wrote in message news:a5m5t4$418$01$1...@news.t-online.com... > Hi! > I need a gif to ascii converter...does anybody know one? > no matter if online or a programm... > > thank you! > >
--(Once apon a time, in alt.ascii-art,)-- --(Josef 'Jupp' Schugt said it like only they can.)-- > Hi! > > par...@gmx.de wrote: > >>I need a gif to ascii converter > > I suppose the GIF to be b/w (use any image handling program to achieve this) > Use giftopnm to convert it to a portable bitmap and then pbmtoascii to convert > that format to ASCII. Some excerpt from the pbmtoascii man page will help you > when using nont b/w pictures. Note that the tools mentioned are command line- > based so they should work under any OS at hand (even Windows Monday Edition). > The problem with apps like pbmtoascii is that I always seem to be lacking a converstion program somehere in teh pipe. How do I get to the pbm file? I have not found a jpegtopbm or giftopbm app. I can get a gif to a pnm but then I can only get a file formates I have never even heard of: ddif fits ps rast sgi sir xwd Well I have heard of ps but some how I think thats not going to meet my needs even with pstoascii. Thats just way to much abstraction. In short I am looking for a comand line group of apps like those that come with ImageMagic. But I want a better set of the strarting converters like those for gif or jpgs. Any ideas? -- --(tty...@faux.local|04:45|/home/faux)-- cat .sig It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. - Andrew Jackson
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 09:03:58 GMT, Faux_Pseudo <Fau...@yahoo.comERCIAL> wrote: > The problem with apps like pbmtoascii is that I always seem to be > lacking a converstion program somehere in teh pipe. > How do I get to the pbm file? I have not found a jpegtopbm or > giftopbm app. I can get a gif to a pnm... I think giftopnm generates either ppm or pgm files, depending on the palette in the input file. You can then pipe the result through ppmtopgm, then pgmtopbm and pbmtoascii. -- Harry Mason ("hjm200.ecs@soton@ac@uk" =~ tr/@./.@/)
use Image Alchemy, it converts over 90 image formats http://www.handmadesw.com/Products/Image_Alchemy.htm - Sonic "Faux_Pseudo" <Fau...@yahoo.comERCIAL> escribi� en el mensaje news:slrna8osnt.nm.Faux_Pseudo@fugozi.cx1209071-a... > --(Once apon a time, in alt.ascii-art,)-- > --(Josef 'Jupp' Schugt said it like only they can.)-- > > Hi! > > > > par...@gmx.de wrote: > > > >>I need a gif to ascii converter > > > > I suppose the GIF to be b/w (use any image handling program to achieve this) > > Use giftopnm to convert it to a portable bitmap and then pbmtoascii to convert > > that format to ASCII. Some excerpt from the pbmtoascii man page will help you > > when using nont b/w pictures. Note that the tools mentioned are command line- > > based so they should work under any OS at hand (even Windows Monday Edition). > > > > The problem with apps like pbmtoascii is that I always seem to be > lacking a converstion program somehere in teh pipe. > How do I get to the pbm file? I have not found a jpegtopbm or > giftopbm app. I can get a gif to a pnm but then I can only get a file > formates I have never even heard of: > ddif fits ps rast sgi sir xwd > > Well I have heard of ps but some how I think thats not going to meet > my needs even with pstoascii. Thats just way to much abstraction. > > In short I am looking for a comand line group of apps like those that > come with ImageMagic. But I want a better set of the strarting > converters like those for gif or jpgs. > > Any ideas? > > > > -- > --(tty...@faux.local|04:45|/home/faux)-- cat .sig > It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. > - Andrew Jackson
--(Once apon a time, in alt.ascii-art,)-- --(Harry Mason said it like only they can.)-- > On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 09:03:58 GMT, Faux_Pseudo <Fau...@yahoo.comERCIAL> > wrote: >> The problem with apps like pbmtoascii is that I always seem to be >> lacking a converstion program somehere in teh pipe. >> How do I get to the pbm file? I have not found a jpegtopbm or >> giftopbm app. I can get a gif to a pnm... > > I think giftopnm generates either ppm or pgm files, depending on the palette in > the input file. ?? depending on the palette? That does not sound like any command line conversion app I have ever used. Sounds more like windows make in choices you never wanted it to make. Have you seen this documented somewhere? The giftopnm man page has nothing about that at all. -- --(tty...@faux.local|04:45|/home/faux)-- cat .sig It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. - Andrew Jackson
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 07:15:00 GMT, Faux_Pseudo <Fau...@yahoo.comERCIAL> wrote: > --(Once apon a time, in alt.ascii-art,)-- > --(Harry Mason said it like only they can.)-- > > I think giftopnm generates either ppm or pgm files, depending on the > > palette in the input file. > > ?? depending on the palette? That does not sound like any command > line conversion app I have ever used. Sounds more like windows make > in choices you never wanted it to make. I think a 2-colour GIF will generate a pbm, a 256-gray GIF will create a pgm, and anything else will generate a ppm. If it generated a specific format it would be called giftoppm (or whatever). pnm is not a real format - it means either ppm, pgm or pbm. ppmtopgm(1) says 'any ppm program can read pgm (and pbm) files automatically'. Even if giftopnm has generated a pbm or pgm, you can still pipe it through ppmtopgm | pgmtopbm | pbmtoascii successfully. I've tested this with pbmmake and pgmcrater and it works. -- Harry Mason ("hjm200.ecs@soton@ac@uk" =~ tr/@./.@/)
> #!/bin/bash > # giftoascii.sh > if [[ $# < 2 ]] ; then > echo two args > echo filename and size percentage modifer > exit 1 > fi > TMPFILE="$(echo $1 | sed 's/\.gif$//g' | awk '{print $1}')" > convert -geometry $2% $1 $TMPFILE.pbm && pbmtoascii $TMPFILE.pbm > rm -f $TMPFILE.pbm > > #!/bin/bash > # jpgtoascii.sh > if [[ $# < 2 ]] ; then > echo two args > echo filename and size percentage modifer > exit 1 > fi > TMPFILE="$(echo $1 | sed 's/\.jpg$//g' | awk '{print $1}')" > convert -geometry $2% $1 $TMPFILE.pbm && pbmtoascii $TMPFILE.pbm > rm -f $TMPFILE.pbm Simply use JavE. Joey
--(Once apon a time, in alt.ascii-art,)-- --(Johannes 'Joey' R�ssel said it like only they can.)-- >> #!/bin/bash <snip old version of code> >> >> #!/bin/bash <snip old version of code> > > Simply use JavE. > But that would require me to install Java. And that commrade is not going to happen any time soon. Nothing agenst Java, however I just have had no reason to install it and don't see the use in installing several meg of libraries for one program that can be compensated for with other programs on my harddrive. -- --(tty...@faux.local|04:45|/home/faux)-- cat .sig .uin It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. - Andrew Jackson UIN=66618055
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 10:22:38 GMT, Faux_Pseudo <Fau...@yahoo.comERCIAL> wrote in message <slrna9bfvb.9r.Faux_Pseudo@fugozi.cx1209071-a>: >--(Once apon a time, in alt.ascii-art,)-- > --(Johannes 'Joey' R�ssel said it like only they can.)-- >>> #!/bin/bash ><snip old version of code> >>> #!/bin/bash ><snip old version of code> >> Simply use JavE. >But that would require me to install Java. And that commrade is not >going to happen any time soon. Nothing agenst Java, however I just >have had no reason to install it and don't see the use in installing >several meg of libraries for one program that can be compensated for >with other programs on my harddrive. I order you to install Java now! -- bes...@last.com
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