Exporting Ascii?

Hello,

I'm having a problem with my Ascii: I converted some images with
Mephs Ascii Editor, which worked very well.

I then tried to save or copy/paste the resulting "text", but nothing
worked. Photoshop 5.5 crashes when pasting, Freehand 9 splits or#
wraps the text, Quark 4 also wraps it.

The only programs that do it right are Wordpad and IE 5.0, but they
won't help me, because I need to fit the image to a certain size
and save it as JPEG.

Any advice how to get my ascii out of the editor and into the above
software without trashing it is highly appreachiated. Please.



-Sascha

Sascha <ps...@gmx.net> wrote in message news:B6C...@gmx.net...
> Hello,
>
> I'm having a problem with my Ascii: I converted some images with
> Mephs Ascii Editor, which worked very well.
>
> I then tried to save or copy/paste the resulting "text", but nothing
> worked. Photoshop 5.5 crashes when pasting, Freehand 9 splits or#
> wraps the text, Quark 4 also wraps it.
>
> The only programs that do it right are Wordpad and IE 5.0, but they
> won't help me, because I need to fit the image to a certain size
> and save it as JPEG.
>
> Any advice how to get my ascii out of the editor and into the above
> software without trashing it is highly appreachiated. Please.
>

Try taking a screenshot of it looking how you want and then load that into a
graphics program. On windows this is done using the Print Screen button.

Stuart

In alt.ascii-art, Stuart Moore <stu...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> Sascha <ps...@gmx.net> wrote in message news:B6C...@gmx.net...
> > The only programs that do it right are Wordpad and IE 5.0, but they
> > won't help me, because I need to fit the image to a certain size
> > and save it as JPEG.
> Try taking a screenshot of it looking how you want and then load that into a
> graphics program. On windows this is done using the Print Screen button.

Alternatively, if you have access to a Linux or other unix box,
try the pbm tools.

	pbmtext -builtin fixed < image-text > image.pbm
	ppmtogif < image.pbm > image.gif

GIF is better than JPEG (patent issues aside) since this is not going
to have many colors.

Elijah
------
pbmtoascii is not a very good ascii art converter, before you try

Hi,

> Try taking a screenshot of it looking how you want and then load that into a
> graphics program. On windows this is done using the Print Screen button.

Won't help since the file is big: the printed size will be 1 square meter
at 12pt textsize...

I really need hints on how to use Freehand (or Photoshop, or...) to
import the ASCII-text properly!


-Sascha

Sascha <ps...@gmx.net> wrote in message news:B6C...@gmx.net...
> Hi,
>
> > Try taking a screenshot of it looking how you want and then load that into a
> > graphics program. On windows this is done using the Print Screen button.
>
> Won't help since the file is big: the printed size will be 1 square meter
> at 12pt textsize...
>
> I really need hints on how to use Freehand (or Photoshop, or...) to
> import the ASCII-text properly!

Why not resize the image after the screenshot is taken?

The only other option is to create a text box in one of them and paste the text
in, ensuring that you don't have any wrapping and that the font is monospaced
(e.g. Courier New)

Stuart

In article <B6C...@gmx.net>, Sascha wrote:
>
>> Try taking a screenshot of it looking how you want and then load that into a
>> graphics program. On windows this is done using the Print Screen button.
>
>Won't help since the file is big: the printed size will be 1 square meter
>at 12pt textsize...
>
>I really need hints on how to use Freehand (or Photoshop, or...) to
>import the ASCII-text properly!

In that case you *really* don't want to use Photoshop, or anything else
that would force you to convert it into a bitmap.  Try cutting and
pasting the text into some typesetting or vector drawing program.

-- 
Ilmari Karonen - http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/
"..so either I'm off to ams.nl on sunday with [my laptop] or I'm without
 it BECAUSE IT SITS RECTALLY IN SOMEONE."     -- M�ns Nilsson in the SDM

Hi,

> In that case you *really* don't want to use Photoshop, or anything else
> that would force you to convert it into a bitmap.  Try cutting and
> pasting the text into some typesetting or vector drawing program.

Unfortunately, I have to print this work from a JPEG-File. So I have
to use some program, which allows me to save the text as a
pixel-graphic at the end. Photoshop 6 doesn't crash, but can't cope
with the amount of text. Quark, doesn't display the ASCII right (and
can't save as JPEG). Freehand has a very strange bug, which cuts off
the files at some point what may be due to a limtation in the number
of characters on one file (see my posting in
forums.macromedia.com/freehand). I will try Illustrator tomorrow.

Anyone else any ideas, which applications might come in handy for
this special (although-it-doesn't-sound-that-special-) task?!


-Sascha

In article <B6C...@gmx.net>, Sascha wrote:
>
>> In that case you *really* don't want to use Photoshop, or anything else
>> that would force you to convert it into a bitmap.  Try cutting and
>> pasting the text into some typesetting or vector drawing program.
>
>Unfortunately, I have to print this work from a JPEG-File. So I have
>to use some program, which allows me to save the text as a
>pixel-graphic at the end.

The problem is that, to avoid the result looking pixelated, your JPEG
would have to be something like 10000 by 10000 pixels.  Just how much
memory did you say you had?

I'd go for the command-line approach mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
I assume you're using Windows, but you might be able to find ports of
the necessary tools somewhere on the web.

-- 
Ilmari Karonen - http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/
"If circles were squares, this would be an accurate value of pi."
                         -- Joe Schaefer in comp.lang.perl.misc

Create a new image in Photoshop. or
Corel Draw......
Create a text box on the drawing
space....
Set the box big enough (at least the
width of the page)....
Set the font size in the box to
something small....
Set the font to a fixed with font
(courier new)...
Copy your text (ASCII) pic using
whatever method you like (from
wherever)....
~~~HINT: make sure you copy a blank line
before and after too~~~~
Return to the text box in the graphics
editor (whatever one you like)....
EVEN PAINT WORKS IF YOU ARE
DESPERATE>>LOL
Position the cursor at the start of the
box,
Press the space bar once and then press
the end key,
(this makes sure you are inside the font
and size format),
to be super sure press left arrow once
too  (sigh *shakes head*).....
Use <ctrl-V> to paste your text in the
box....
Drag the corners to size your box......
Click outside the box to set it....
<Save Ast> the file as a gif or
whatever......
you can also apply effects after
clicking outside the box....

Look, this may seem confusing and you
might not get the idea right away,
but it works and I use it play with the
idea till you get it ok...
If you are a graphics pro you'll see
this right away, if not...practice
*smile*

      ICQ#22448421




"Sascha" <ps...@gmx.net> wrote in message
news:B6C...@gmx.net...
Hello,

I'm having a problem with my Ascii: I
converted some images with
Mephs Ascii Editor, which worked very
well.

I then tried to save or copy/paste the
resulting "text", but nothing
worked. Photoshop 5.5 crashes when
pasting, Freehand 9 splits or#
wraps the text, Quark 4 also wraps it.

The only programs that do it right are
Wordpad and IE 5.0, but they
won't help me, because I need to fit the
image to a certain size
and save it as JPEG.

Any advice how to get my ascii out of
the editor and into the above
software without trashing it is highly
appreachiated. Please.



-Sascha

Create a new image in Photoshop. or
Corel Draw......
Create a text box on the drawing
space....
Set the box big enough (at least the
width of the page)....
Set the font size in the box to
something small....
Set the font to a fixed with font
(courier new)...
Copy your text (ASCII) pic using
whatever method you like (from
wherever)....
~~~HINT: make sure you copy a blank line
before and after too~~~~
Return to the text box in the graphics
editor (whatever one you like)....
EVEN PAINT WORKS IF YOU ARE
DESPERATE>>LOL
Position the cursor at the start of the
box,
Press the space bar once and then press
the end key,
(this makes sure you are inside the font
and size format),
to be super sure press left arrow once
too  (sigh *shakes head*).....
Use <ctrl-V> to paste your text in the
box....
Drag the corners to size your box......
Click outside the box to set it....
<Save Ast> the file as a gif or
whatever......
you can also apply effects after
clicking outside the box....

Look, this may seem confusing and you
might not get the idea right away,
but it works and I use it play with the
idea till you get it ok...
If you are a graphics pro you'll see
this right away, if not...practice
*smile*

      ICQ#22448421

Create a new image in Photoshop. or
Corel Draw......
Create a text box on the drawing
space....
Set the box big enough (at least the
width of the page)....
Set the font size in the box to
something small....
Set the font to a fixed with font
(courier new)...
Copy your text (ASCII) pic using
whatever method you like (from
wherever)....
~~~HINT: make sure you copy a blank line
before and after too~~~~
Return to the text box in the graphics
editor (whatever one you like)....
EVEN PAINT WORKS IF YOU ARE
DESPERATE>>LOL
Position the cursor at the start of the
box,
Press the space bar once and then press
the end key,
(this makes sure you are inside the font
and size format),
to be super sure press left arrow once
too  (sigh *shakes head*).....
Use <ctrl-V> to paste your text in the
box....
Drag the corners to size your box......
Click outside the box to set it....
<Save Ast> the file as a gif or
whatever......
you can also apply effects after
clicking outside the box....

Look, this may seem confusing and you
might not get the idea right away,
but it works and I use it play with the
idea till you get it ok...
If you are a graphics pro you'll see
this right away, if not...practice
*smile*

      ICQ#22448421


"Sascha" <ps...@gmx.net> wrote in message
news:B6C...@gmx.net...
Hi,

> Try taking a screenshot of it looking
how you want and then load that into a
> graphics program. On windows this is
done using the Print Screen button.

Won't help since the file is big: the
printed size will be 1 square meter
at 12pt textsize...

I really need hints on how to use
Freehand (or Photoshop, or...) to
import the ASCII-text properly!


-Sascha