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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 1 Dec 1994.
Talk: ASCII Xmas Card Design

Talk: ASCII Xmas Card Design

The gossip columns say Hooked on music <an1...@anon.penet.fi> wrote:
>Could a brilliant ASCII artist help me create a printable Christmas
>card?  Here's the design:
> 
> _______________________
>|                       | ^
>| <------ 80 columns -> | |
>|           |           | |
>| (an upside|           | |
>|  down art)|           | |
>|-----------|-----------| 63 lines
>|           |           |
>|           |           | |
>|           |  Merry    | |
>|           |   Xmas    | |
>|           |           | |
>|_______________________| V
> 
> 
>For the "upside-down art", I want either a beautiful Christmas Tree
>or a bear or something 'warm hearted'.  Of course, this will then be
>folded two times to create the Christmas card.


   Interesting, and it got me to thinking about it.  You know, since this 
is to be printed out, an artist could take advantage of various printing 
techniques.

   Depending on the software-hardware config, you could do overstrike 
printing, or play games with actual typography (changing the typefaces, 
size, using bold and italic, and proportional type.

--
 .        +      '       .          * .         .     '  )      . +    .
   . ____   _____  ___ .    ____ .  _____    '   .+          .  *  '.
 *  / __/  /____/ /__ \ '  /__  \ '/____/  .   *     ' .   +       .    '+
' .( (  + __'   . __| |.* ___) /  ____'   '     +     .           .'
.'  \ \' / /  . ,/,/| | ./   _/. / __/ ' .    '   .  +   :    '    .   *
'____) )/ /__ ,/ /__| | / /\ \  / /__' _____  ____    _______' __  __  __
/_____//____//________|/_/ /_/'/____/ /____/ /__  \ '/ ___  /./ /'/ /./ /
'   .+          . *     '    .   :   __ . + ___) /. / /. / / / / / / / /.
  .   '     *  .     +   '  .      */ /.  '/   _/  / /'*/ /'/ /./ /*/ /. '
.      '  (     .  '      :     +  / /__  / /\ \'./ /__/ / / /_/ /_/ / + '
  '.         .+      .'    *   ' ./____/ /_/ /_/ /______/+/_________/ .'
  .   *     ' .   '       .    '+ .      '   *    .  '      (     +  '.  :

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From: bob...@wwa.com (Bob Allison)
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Subject: Talk: ASCII Xmas Card Design
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