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From: Bateau <Gamera@work.stomping.aza>
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Subject: Re: Jave
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 16:12:24 +0800
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>
>I've only fairly recently started following the alt.ascii-art group, so if
>I'm treading on thin ice here, take it easy on me :-)
>
>I am curious, are you familiar with the program Jave ( http://www.jave.de )
>and how do you feel about it?  I suspect a number of people would consider
>it cheating, improper creation of ascii art; on the other hand, some may
>argue that it's foolish not to use the best tools available -- and this
>certainly makes "painting" in ascii more, shall we say, intuitive.
>
>If you're not familiar, JavE is an editor designed to operate similarly to
>a basic paint program but uses ascii text instead of pixel mapped images.
>It's basically a non-linear text editor with the ability to accept mouse
>(as well as keyboard) input.
>
>On the more "cheating" side of the coin, it can convert images to ascii --
>quite impressively.

I only use it for its select tool.
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