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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 19 Oct 2006.
Re: img->ascii

Re: img->ascii

* Eli the Bearded wrote:
> In alt.ascii-art, Troy Piggins  <use...@piggo.com> wrote:
>> * Eli the Bearded wrote:
>> > Actually, now I have a colorizer that I use with it, too. Example
>> > usage:
>> >
>> > djpeg IMAGE.jpg > IMAGE.ppm
>> > pnmscale -yscale 0.25 -xscale 0.5 IMAGE.ppm > IMAGE-scaled.ppm
>> > ppmtopgm IMAGE-scaled.ppm > IMAGE-scaled.pgm
>> > # sometimes a pnminvert of the pgm file will help a lot
>> > pgmtoascii IMAGE-scaled.pgm > IMAGE-scaled.txt
>> > colorizeascii IMAGE-scaled.txt IMAGE-scaled.ppm > IMAGE-scaled.html
>> 
>> This line I got an error:
>> 
>> $ colorizeascii image.txt image-scaled.ppm > image.html
>> colorizeascii: text error image.txt: not enough characters
>
> Ah. That's right. The pgmtoascii previously posted has a bug that
> drops the last few letters of the last line, most of the time.
> Updated version at the end of this post.

Got it.

>> So close yet so far...
>
> The colorizer doesn't need ASCII art for the text input. So if
> you want to create stuff like the linux kernel colorized to show
> Tux, you can do that. 
>
> This stuff makes mod_gzip (or the like) a good idea.

$ colorizeascii image-scaled.txt image-scaled.ppm >
image-scaled.html
colorizeascii: no portable graymap image file found

:(

Does $TERM etc affect it?

-- 
Troy Piggins
 ,-o
o   ) Ubuntu linux 6.06 http://ubuntu.com  RLU#415538 http://counter.li.org
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