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From: Veronica Karlsson <ascii_girl@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: A proram that I Can Use to Create ????
Date: 2000/05/06
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Ryan S. wrote:
> CoOLE wrote:
> >         I would like to know of a program that i can use to create
> > ascii art and also of one that i can import a picture and it forms it
> > as ascii
> 
> well you can import bitmaps into email effects and that's all good.
> notepad is still the ultimate for ass-key art drawing. also if you want
> to copy something, insert it into microsoft word, set text wrapping to
> "none" and make the pictures order to "behind text" then you can just
> trace over it. but that's for weenies (unless you are using it to get
> perportions right)

"for weenies"? Does it matter how you do it if the result is good?

Here are some pictures I've made using that method:



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For all except the last one I have used a "WYSIWYG HTML editor"
(the one in Netscape 4). For the last one (which is quite a bit
older than the others) I used OH film that I taped to the monitor.


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