DOS line drawing characters to GIF?

Robert A. Baron (mailto:rabaron@PIPELINE.COM)
Tue, 7 Jul 1998 15:31:25 -0400

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Date:         Tue, 7 Jul 1998 15:31:25 -0400
From: "Robert A. Baron" <mailto:rabaron@PIPELINE.COM>
Subject:      DOS line drawing characters to GIF?
To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU

I have a file created in a DOS program that uses the extended IBM ascii
character set -- made up, here, of the line-drawing characters -- and need
to translate these images into a standard graphics format.

I can print the file in Postscript using LetterGothic, and scan it, but the slight mis-registration of lines makes for a rather messy output. I can't display any single image completely in the program that created it, so I can't grab the image using something like HiJaak DOSCap or HiJaak Capture, nor will it display correctly in any standard windows editor I own.

Can anybody suggest a way of producing a standard output image file from this ascii file? An answer will be greatly appreciated.

Robert A. Baron mailto:rabaron@pipeline.com