- To increase the area of a converted picture without sacrificing *much* quality, select it in FC Client or Tex-Edit and choose the Bold and Shadow styles.
- To keep converted text-pictures around for when you need them most (without having to wait for the slow conversion process) try out WalletSize by Jonathon Bloom.
- How to view them text-pictures on a Windows PC:
1. open up the message with the text-graphic.
2. choose "select all" from the edit menu.
3. choose "copy" from the edit menu.
4. open up Write (the word processor that comes with Windows).
5. choose the Wingdings font and type in size 4.
6. Paste it in.
- If you have ResEdit and a bad attitude you can change the characters that FC Text-Picture uses in its pictures by editing the 'yoyo' resource. Make sure that the resource size stays 255 bytes.
- FC Text-Picture automatically places a return at the end of each picture thus making it easy to insert it between two lines (without this return character, the last line will get pushed down away from the picture.) Just simply place the carrot at the beginning of the line you wish to put the picture BEFORE and then paste it in!
- To continue typing after you paste a picture into a message, you have to change the font size (and possibly color) back to what it was. I recommend inserting pictures between two lines as mentioned above.
- An easy way to convert an icon that you see in the Finder™ into a text-picture is to, under System 7, get info on it, copy the icon and then open the Clipboard in FC Text-Picture. Both the color black & white counterparts will be shown and allowed to convert.
-If you are going to convert a big picture with a lot of color changes, it would be wise to increase FC Text-Picture's memory size to at least 800K to be safe.
