>-----------------------------------------------------<
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/ |/ / _/ | / / _/ ____/ | / __ \ _
/ /|_/ // // |/ // // /_ / /| |/ / / /(_)
/ / / // // /| // // __/ / ___ / /_/ /_ All the stuff you need for
/_/ /_/___/_/ |_/___/_/ /_/ |_\___\_(_) ASCII Art!
>------------------ By Martin Atkins -----------------<
Monospaced Fonts
Text Editors
Ascii Utils
>-----------------------------------------------------<
__ __ _
| \/ | ___ _ __ ___ ___ _ __ __ _ ___ ___ __| |
| |\/| |/ _ \| '_ \ / _ \/ __| '_ \ / _` |/ __/ _ \/ _` |
| | | | (_) | | | | (_) \__ \ |_) | (_| | (_| __/ (_| |
|_| |_|\___/|_| |_|\___/|___/ .__/ \__,_|\___\___|\__,_|
/ _| ___ _ |_|| |_ ___
| |_ / _ \| '_ \| __/ __|
| _| (_) | | | | |_\__ \
|_| \___/|_| |_|\__|___/
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 (Supplied with Windows)
Courier New (Supplied with Windows)
Courier (Supplied with Windows)
Lucida Console (Supplied with Microsoft Win95 Plus!)
Topaz New
Monotype.com
Terminal
Lucida Sans Typewiter
OCR A Extended
OCRB
Netextmo
Video Console Terminal
Andale Mono
Crystal
HyperFont
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
Acorn: Corpus (in Resources)
System (in Resources)
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 mart.atkins@bigfoot.com and tell me about it, along with what
operating system/computer it is from.
.---- To get a Monospaced/Fixed Width font in MS Outlook Express -->
|Click Tools/ Options.
|Click the Read tab.
|Click the Fonts button.
|Select Courier or another fixed width font for ALL of the listboxes.
|Select Smallest.
|Click OK.
|Click OK.
'------------------ (Thanks to aardvarko) ------------------------->
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|_ _|____ _| |_
| |/ _ \ \/ / __|
| | __/> <| |_
_____ |_|\___/_/\_\\__|
| ____|__| (_) |_ ___ _ __ ___
| _| / _` | | __/ _ \| '__/ __|
| |__| (_| | | || (_) | | \__ \
|_____\__,_|_|\__\___/|_| |___/
A lot of ASCII art is made in a text editor - usually like a wordprocessor but
without text formatting functions.
Un*x: vi
pico
emacs
jed
joe
ed
jove
Windows95: Notepad (Comes with Windows!)
/98 EDIT.COM (Comes with windows!)
MicroEMACS
EditPad
PFE32
UltraEdit (www.ultraedit.com)
TextPad (www.textpad.com - shareware)
Vim (www.pcisys.net/~kscott/vim/)
Windows3: Notepad (Comes with Windows!)
MicroEMACS
PFE
UltraEdit (www.ultraedit.com)
MSDOS: EDIT (Comes with DOS 5/6 - Type EDIT at command line)
QEdit
MicroEmacs
GNU Emacs
TheDraw (shareware)
AcidDraw (shareware)
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)
TED (Included with ACID Blitz Basic 2.1)
SuperTED (Included with Blitz Basic support suite)
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
nedit
Acorn: !Edit (in Resources)
!Zap
!StrongEd
Atari: Everest
QED
Steno
EditPro
Commodore Zed
64/128: NovaPic
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/ \ / ___| / ___|_ _|_ _| _ _ _ _ _
/ _ \ \___ \| | | | | | | | | | |_(_) |___
/ ___ \ ___) | |___ | | | | | | | | __| | / __|
/_/ \_\____/ \____|___|___|| |_| | |_| | \__ \
--------------------------- \___/ \__|_|_|___/
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 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
mart.atkins@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.
These conversions can be viewed as graphics using ASC2PIC, a program that will
basically 'draw' ascii art using grey pixels on the screen. For a copy, email
mart.atkins@bigfoot.com.
Try the following URLs for a starting point
gopher://twinbrook.cis.uab.edu/1A/atools.70
ftp://ftp.wwa.com/pub/Scarecrow/Gifscii/
[URLs taken from alt.ascii-art FAQ by Matthew Thomas]
.- 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! -'
ASC-TOOL
This program does rotation and flipping of ascii art. It is most useful when
you need a left facing ascii art to face right, or something like that.
RESIZE
Performs 'pixel' resizes on ASCII Art... adding or removing characters to
resize the pic. The size is a percentage of the original.
ASC2PIC/ASC2PIC2
This is the reverse of GIFscii... takes solid style ascii and 'draws' it as a
picture on the screen. Good for viewing ASCII conversions as the graphics they
came from.
ASC2PIC2 extends this capability by allowing viewing of both White on Black
and Black on White pics to be viewed.
ASCHALF
Resamples asciiart to 50% graphically. It resamples the picture as if it were
a .GIF or something, and then converts it back to ascii art using a similar
method to GIFscii.
LGIFScii
This program attempts to take a lineart GIF pic and convert it into Line Art
ascii. The results arn`t great, but it can be used to get the idea of a shape
and then fiddle with is later.
TRIM
Removes blank spaces from the end of lines in text files. Not specifically an
asciiart utility but useful just the same.
ASCII-EDITOR for Windows
The author claims:
ASCII-Pic, Pic-ASCII conversion
Fill with background pattern
Divers textimport functions
Invert, painting circles, center
Drag & Drop
...
The program has a lot of text import functions. You could for example import a
text file as spiral. Nice for emails ;)
The program can convert pictures to ASCII art (greyscaled), ASCII art to
pictures.
Flip, rotate, resize, cut, copy, paste, ...
These are only a few samples of the 'ASCII-Editor' functions.
I have yet to try the program, so am unable to comment. I will write a proper
write-up for it when I try it.
http://studenten.freepage.de/meph/ascii/editor/_index.htm
The program is freeware.
TheDraw
TheDraw is primarily an ANSI editor, but is suitable for ASCII art also. It
features many features not availiable in most 'standard' text editors, like
filling an area with a character, or dragging a block around. There are many
features specific to DOS ansi editing, which I will not go into here.
AcidDraw
AcidDraw is a similar program developed by artists for artists. A similar feel
and feature set of TheDraw, but geared more towards a static-screen
(non-animated) drawing. It's sole purpose in life is to create ASCII and ANSI
art. Some nifty features include the ability to flip screens horizontally and
vertically and otherwise manipulate text-based art in ways that a normal
text-EDITOR simply can not do. Also shareware. (And the programmer is still
alive but no bugs have ever been reported, to the fault of the software.)
[Text supplied by RaD Man]
Both TheDraw and ACiDDraw latest versions are available at
http://artpacks.acid.org/programs/editors/
Please note that none of these ASCII Utils are necesary for creation of ASCII
Art, but merely to aid creation It is totally possible to make ASCII Art in any
of the editors on the 'Text Editors' list. TheDraw and AcidDraw, however are
editors in their own right, so could be used instead of a 'traditional' text
editor. I have a few of these editors, but not all. If you email me and ask I`ll
send it if I have it! My email address is at various places in this document.
>------------------------------------------------------<
.-----------------------------------------.
|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 |
| * Ben Norwood |
| * Matthew Thomas |
| * RaD Man |
| * natedac |
| * Joergen |
| * msh210 |
| * stephane HAbeTT roux |
| * Dom Esplen |
| * Hilton Janfield |
| * FireDraake |
'-----------------------------------------'
>------------- Last Updated 17-12-98 -----------------<
Also available on the web at:
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http://www.ludd.luth.se/users/vk/q/mga_faq.html
http://voices.vossnet.co.uk/a/atkins/minifaq.htm
http://bungleandmart.home.ml.org/ascmfaq.htm
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