Re: DOS line drawing characters to GIF?

Francisco (mailto:francisco.a@ALTEC.COM.BR)
Wed, 8 Jul 1998 08:58:29 -0300

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Date:         Wed, 8 Jul 1998 08:58:29 -0300
From: Francisco <mailto:francisco.a@ALTEC.COM.BR>
Subject:      Re: DOS line drawing characters to GIF?
To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU

Try http://artpacks.acid.org/.  They have many DOS viewers of ascii art and
maybe you can find one that you can copy/paste to a Windows immage editor.

Francisco J. A. Ares mailto:mailto:francisco.a@altec.com.br These comments are made in a private capacity and are not necessarily the official view of the company. Estes comentarios foram feitos em carater particular e nao sao necessariamente a opiniao oficial da empresa.

-----Original Message----- From: Robert A. Baron [SMTP:mailto:rabaron@PIPELINE.COM] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 4:31 PM To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU Subject: DOS line drawing characters to GIF?

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