X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,54f46370f70dfb51 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: CJRandall Subject: Re: Ascii art problem...Help! Date: 1998/12/15 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 422626023 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: shieldwolf.demon.co.uk:193.237.26.148 References: <366EEF5B.2201@mts.net> <36741b06.20933965@news.vossnet.net> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 913756541 nnrp-11:4966 NO-IDENT shieldwolf.demon.co.uk:193.237.26.148 Organization: me? organised? MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art In article <36741b06.20933965@news.vossnet.net>, Martin Atkins writes >.----- On Wed, 09 Dec 1998 15:44:59 -0600, Jim Small posted: >|Hi all! >| >|I have a signature file ascii graphic that a friend made for me (seen >|below) that reads fine when I use Netscape, but when it's viewed on >|Outlook Express (the Microsoft Internet Explorer email porogram), it's >|just a jumbled mess. The signature file is below. If it reads properly >|you should see "Eagle One" written below. Is there a way to make sure >|that this signature file can be seen on all the programs others may have >|who I email to? >| >| __| _ \ >| | | / | >| __| _` | _ | | _ \ | | _ \ _ \ >| | ( | ( | | __/ | | | | __/ >| ___| \__,_|\__ | _|\___| ____/ _| _|\___| >| |__/ >'---------------------------------- > >Your Outlook Express is probably set to Arial or some other Proportional >font... switch it to a Fixed Width one such as FixedSys, Lucida Console or >Courier. >(It's difficult to get it into FixedSys without my patch which I hope Colin >Randall will post since I don`t have it handy) > >Hope this helps, >-Martin [][ hi ... yeah you're right ... altho' that'll just fix things on his own machine ... wont affect his viewing audience's machines if Jim's mailers use Ms.Outlook with all default settings they'll just see mush unless the pic/sig has been padded out with extra spaces ... which will prob'ly make it unreadable in a fixed-width font i don't know if Ms.Outlook can send or interpret embedded macros which change the reader's settings ... tho' i do know that user-agent-specific viruses can be transmitted that way. if Jim still wants the registry-patch? i can send ... no problem ... just request [][ see yuz [][ colin -- . /\_/\ ( () /_ / /\) _/ /? .\ /\) /) .\ /_ /_ :( a a( CJRandall http://www.shieldwolf.demon.co.uk ' \___") <---<< --=oOo=-- >>--->