Re: silly gif/jpg -> ascii art question.
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 04:22:54PM -0800, Adam Shand wrote:
>
> hey.
>
> i friend wanted me to convert a picture he had into an ascii art image. the
> gimp has an option to export an image to AA format (which i assume is ascii
> art??) but it's greyed out. does anyone know what i have to do to enable
> this, i have the aalib stuff installed.
>
> if i am mistaken about the gimp export stuff, does anyone have another good
> program to do this?
>
> thanks,
> adam.
>
Try asciiview from the aview package. I think it is part of the incredibly
cool aa project. If you haven't seen aa's demo, bb, you are missing out.
As for the gimp, first convert your image to grayscale. The AA save options
appear to be similar to thos of asciiview, so the AA plugin may be a
frontend to asciiview and therefore depend on it but I am not sure.
Pat Mahoney
--
> > Other than the fact Linux has a cool name, could someone explain why I
> > should use Linux over BSD?
>
> No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on
> creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it
> certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able
> to say "OS/2? Hah. I've got Linux. What a cool name". 386BSD made the
> mistake of putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the
> name, and is scaring away a lot of people just because it sounds too
> technical.
(Linus Torvalds' follow-up to a question about Linux)
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