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5.2 FIGlet
FIGlet is a derivative of the Unix program "banner" which was meant for the
automated creation of crude ASCII art text logos. There are hundreds of
different FIGlet fonts available, from handwriting to 3D letters. FIGlet files
are plain text with some special markup for the program, so they're quite easy
to make. You can also use JavE for creating FIGlet fonts.
88888888b oo dP dP
88 88 88
a88aaaa dP .d8888b. 88 .d8888b. d8888P
88 88 88' `88 88 88ooood8 88
88 88 88. .88 88 88. ... 88
dP dP `8888P88 dP `88888P' dP
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d8888P
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
/\ \ /\ \ /\ \ /\__\ /\ \ /\ \
/::\ \ _\:\ \ /::\ \ /:/ / /::\ \ \:\ \
/::\:\__\ /\/::\__\ /:/\:\__\ /:/__/ /::\:\__\ /::\__\
\/\:\/__/ \::/\/__/ \:\:\/__/ \:\ \ \:\:\/ / /:/\/__/
\/__/ \:\__\ \::/ / \:\__\ \:\/ / \/__/
\/__/ \/__/ \/__/ \/__/
Some examples of FIGlet fonts
5.3 TheDraw/ACiDDraw
TheDraw is an MS-DOS based application meant for drawing ASCII and ANSI,
originating from the mid-80s. It can be operated with a mouse, but the menus
and commands are executed with the keyboard. It's fairly easy to use once you
learn it and you probably won't forget them any time soon. It also features a
VGA mode where you can zoom out your picture.
ACiDDraw is an improved version by TheDraw made by the legendary artgroup ACiD.
I drew ASCII and ANSI with it for years and occasionally still do. Some
computers have problems with running ACiDDraw, which can cause runtime errors
or freezing of the program. In Windows tweaking the settings of the program
often help.
5.4 ACiDView
ACiDView is a freeware Windows program, also by ACiD. It's used for viewing
ASCII and ANSI files in several resolutions and can also save them as PNG,
which comes in handy. There are no drawing functions.
5.5 PabloDraw
PabloDraw is another popular ANSI/ASCII editor for MS-DOS Windows, somewhat
similar to ACiDDraw. I personally have no experience using it, but PabloDraw's
support for multiuser drawing on the Internet is definitely an interesting
feature. There's also a viewer companion to it, known as PabloView.
6 Other stuff
6.1 ASCII map
032 [space] 048 0 064 @ 080 P 096 ` 112 p
033 ! 049 1 065 A 081 Q 097 a 113 q
034 " 050 2 066 B 082 R 098 b 114 r
035 # 051 3 067 C 083 S 099 c 115 s
036 $ 052 4 068 D 084 T 100 d 116 t
037 % 053 5 069 E 085 U 101 e 117 u
038 & 054 6 070 F 086 V 102 f 118 v
039 ' 055 7 071 G 087 W 103 g 119 w
040 ( 056 8 072 H 088 X 104 h 120 x
041 ) 057 9 073 I 089 Y 105 i 121 y
042 * 058 : 074 J 090 Z 106 j 122 z
043 + 059 ; 075 K 091 [ 107 k 123 {
044 , 060 < 076 L 092 \ 108 l 124 |
045 - 061 = 077 M 093 ] 109 m 125 }
6.2 Displaying ASCII art on web pages
If you want to showcase ASCII art on your web page, you can just save the
images as text files and link to them. The problem with this is that if you
draw loads of small pictures, you will have hundreds of files as well. Some
older versions of Internet Explorer (and possibly some other browsers) might
show your art in proportional font.
When embedding your art into HTML pages, always remember the <pre> tags, which
tell the browser that the text is already formatted and should be displayed in
a fixed-width font. You can use CSS to determine the particular font, provided
that the viewer has it.
6.3 Coloring ASCII art
With HTML you can also color your ASCII pictures, but this is a tedious job to
do by hand and you can use an HTML editor for it.
Other ways for coloring ASCII art include ANSI colors and mIRC colors. Both of
these contain 16 foreground colors. MIRC also has as many background colors,
while ANSI only offers 8. ANSI can be viewed in DOS or the DOS prompt of
Windows if you have a driver called ansi.sys loaded. Alternatively you can use
an ANSI viewer like ACiDView or save the pictures as GIF/PNG.
MIRC colors can only be used on IRC and not all clients support them - and some