[DIS] Looking for proportional font ASCII art creators

[Sid B]

Hi,

I've hunted a LOT for this but to no avail and I'm forced to ask this
on these forums (having read the guidelines on proportional font art
and how it becomes a touchy topic with some people)! Sorry!

I'm looking for a program / script / techniques that can help me
create proportional sized ASCII art. The font in question is Arial. I
know that the rendering of it will be different from browser to
browser, device to device - however my requirements still remains the
same.

Any help on this would be much appreciated.

Thanks!
Sid

[Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson]

Sid B <sili...@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I've hunted a LOT for this but to no avail and I'm forced to ask
> this on these forums (having read the guidelines on proportional
> font art and how it becomes a touchy topic with some people)! Sorry!
>
> I'm looking for a program / script / techniques that can help me
> create proportional sized ASCII art. The font in question is
> Arial. I know that the rendering of it will be different from
> browser to browser, device to device - however my requirements still
> remains the same.

While doing this is possible, it is a lot harder than using monospace
font. The result will always depend on the actual font chosen, and
may need absolute positioning, that is, you'll probably need an
external positioning tool, such as CSS (or postscript).

If you have a word processor that can display images behind the text,
you can use that for the "plastic bag effect" and tabs (with ruler
control) to position the characters. The same may be awailable with
website editing tools.

> Any help on this would be much appreciated.

Telling us *what* you want to achieve, rather than just how you want
to achieve it will probably help more.

Do you intend to have all the letters in the same fontsize?

What is the image you're trying to create? IMHO, if you don't know,
you're asking the wrong question.

Johann

[lgbeard]

You are referring to macros i take it. The tutorials page is a wealth
of info

http://web.archive.org/web/20000118131704/http://come.to/themacrohouse

Jave can display both fix and proportional font art but have not tried
creating proportional font art with it

http://www.jave.de/

I use this for displaying the japanese text art with good result.
change font and size to your needs.

<pre Style="font-family:,MS PGothic, Mona;
font-size:12pt;color:black">

,---.
..(.)(.)
( ^)_\
( )')
`--'

lgbeard