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- Ever wondered how you could create line printer art? I am referring to
- those line printer pictures composed by ASCII characters.
- Here are two additions for pbmplus. Pbmtochar reads a portable bitmap and
- outputs a picture drawn by using characters. Chartopbm reads a text file
- and produces a bitmap containing those characters. Unlike pbmtoascii,
- pbmtochar pattern matches against the X11 8x13 fixed width font and thus
- creates much smaller output. Converting a text file into a bitmap and
- then back to text doesn't change the file (appart from non-printable characters
- and space padding). Both programs don't depend on the ASCII character set.
- I used the 8x13 font, because it produced the best results on printers.
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- In order to use these programs you need to compile them with the rest of
- the pbmplus collection. The collection was posted in volume9 of
- comp.sources.misc. Add the programs and manual pages to the pbm directory
- of pbmplus and add the appropriate entries to the Makefile.
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