X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,30524fccb8f0da61 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: "Meph" Subject: Re: Alternative uses of ascii art Date: 1998/12/12 Message-ID: <74u959$nhq@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 421562391 References: <74po9m$rid$2@news.flashnet.it> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Organization: BTS Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art LaurA schrieb in Nachricht <74po9m$rid$2@news.flashnet.it>... >Hi I'm Laura, writing from Italy, and I have a peculiar question for you. >My main hobby is cross-stitch and my main dream is to find a way to convert >ascii art into counted cross-stitch charts. I managed once, with a Mickey >Mouse I found on the web, but it was a terribly hard job, I basically had to >count the ascii crosses and put them into Excel. it took more time to do the >chart than to stitch it!! I don't know what cross-stitch is, but I how you can import a textfile in a charts program like Excel. With a tool you can convert a text file in a csv file. Every character is put in a single cell and you can open the file as cvs textfile with many programs. Download: (ZIP,26Kb,DOS) http://studenten.freepage.de/meph/prog/csv.zip +===================================================+ ,,,,, I _,,,_ __ __ ___ ___ _ _ I.|_ _|. I / o o \ |M \/ M| |E__| |P_ \ | || | ASCII I(| O-O |) I > P < | |\/| | | _| | _/ | HH | & more I | I | I \_\_/_/ |_| |_| |E__| |_P |_||_| ~~~~~~ I | \_/ | I I \___/ I http://studenten.freepage.de/meph/ascii/ascii.htm I I I I \_M_/ I http://studenten.freepage.de/meph/index.html I W +===================================================+ _/ \_