Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 4 May 1999.
looking for an ascii-banner-maker
alt.ascii-art
· 6 messages · 4 May 1999 - 6 May 1999
hello ascii-gurus i'm looking for a free-ascii-banner generator, that writes character strings in large letters. thank you for every hint hubert
>Message-id: <7gnekg$8r3$1...@pollux.ip-plus.net> > >hello ascii-gurus >i'm looking for a free-ascii-banner generator, >that writes character strings in large letters. >thank you for every hint perhaps figlet? http://www.surfplaza.com/figlet/ (just one of the many sites) -joan -- ,/ \, ((__,-"""-,__)) `--)~ ~(--` joan stark .-'( )`-, spu...@juno.com `~~`d\ /b`~~` | | ascii art gallery: jgs (6___6) http://www.ascii-art.com `---`
hub...@iggi.lu.ch wrote in message
<7gnekg$8r3$1...@pollux.ip-plus.net>...
|hello ascii-gurus
|i'm looking for a free-ascii-banner generator,
|that writes character strings in large letters.
|thank you for every hint
If you have access to a unix box, you could try the program 'figlet' which
does exactly what you're asking for.
John 'Homicide' Gilbertson
wrote:
>i'm looking for a free-ascii-banner generator,
For which system? I've got one for Un*x, it's simply called Banner, and is
part of the BSD-Games package.
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.----- On Tue, 4 May 1999 20:38:00 +0200, <hub...@iggi.lu.ch> posted:
|hello ascii-gurus
|i'm looking for a free-ascii-banner generator,
|that writes character strings in large letters.
|thank you for every hint
|
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* 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!
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You can get FIGlet from the official FTP site ftp.internexus.net/pub/figlet/
and there should be a copy of DOS FIGlet along with FigDOS-GUI from my web
site ... http://voices.vossnet.co.uk/a/atkins/fdg.htm
There are also web based FIGlets, good for one-off tasks:
http://www.surfplaza.com/figlet/
-Martin
|\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@--
| |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
.----- On Tue, 4 May 1999 23:38:55 +0100, Homicide posted: | |hub...@iggi.lu.ch wrote in message |<7gnekg$8r3$1...@pollux.ip-plus.net>... ||hello ascii-gurus ||i'm looking for a free-ascii-banner generator, ||that writes character strings in large letters. ||thank you for every hint |If you have access to a unix box, you could try the program 'figlet' which |does exactly what you're asking for. '------------------------------ And on DOS, Windows, AmigaOS, Apple Mac... ftp://ftp.internexus.net/pub/figlet/ |\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- | |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
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