Linux console image to ASCII conversion

Hi,
I installed AA-Lib on my linux server because I want to convert on the 
fly all the images on my web site and make a lynx friendly version of 
the site with ascii images.

The problem is that I need to call aview from a php page, but if I call:

"aview image.pnm > image.txt"

the output file is a binary one... (!)

Do you know a way to convert on the fly and from console an image to a 
text ascii file?

Thanks a lot.

--
Gianni

_.-In alt.ascii-art, Gianni Valenti wrote the following -._
> Hi,
> I installed AA-Lib on my linux server because I want to convert on the 
> fly all the images on my web site and make a lynx friendly version of 
> the site with ascii images.
>
> The problem is that I need to call aview from a php page, but if I call:
>
> "aview image.pnm > image.txt"

image2ascii should come with convert which is part of ImageMagick.

And you can set the size too.

image2ascii -geometry 50x50 ~/file.pnm

There are other ways too.  Launch the pic in aview and mouse the image
into your editor.

You spend 2 years without instlling a mouse, sound, or graphics driver
on your system and you learn a few things about creating ascii images
from source files. :)

OB:
 _Memories of Tomorrow # 0030 # Lost World # 2/7 # Hurry Up And Wait__
|                                                                     |
|__________                         A man sits in a ship waiting for  |
|_________/`-----...______          a woman.  Like any two people     |
|                         `----.._  different worlds they have two    |
| o       o      o     o    o   o ) cultures and the two languages    |
|           _____....------------'  that come with that.              |
|_____...--'                                                          |
|                                   In this case the differences are  |
|       :F_P:                       even more drastic than normal.    |
|                                                                     |
|_____________________________________________________________________|

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