Message-Id: <199807072000.NAA23226@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 15:44:13 -0400 From: Sara Jane Pearman <mailto:pearman@CMA-OH.ORG> Subject: Re: DOS line drawing characters to GIF? To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Do you ever use the alt key and then the ascii numbers - most programs, even databases accept those.Sara Jane
At 03:31 PM 7/7/98 -0400, you wrote: >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 >
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