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Upload a picture from your computer (photo, clip-art, etc.), and have it converted to ascii-art. Brilliant :-)
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Seeded on Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:21 AM EDT
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Edit: copy and pasting doesn't work. Pshh... What's the use in that?
#2 - Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:36 AM EDTStash, you have to upload a file for the conversion to take place. Works great.
Cheers, and thanks for the feed-back.
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Oh you have to upload the file, I see. Thanks, because I just fell off a turnip truck and do not understand completely self-explanatory directions.
What I'm saying is if you copy and paste the ascii--say on newsvine for example--It will not display correctly (because the spaces are removed).
Stash, sorry about the misunderstanding. I'm glad to hear you can understand completely self-explanatory directions :-)
I'm sure you'll also discover that copy and paste does work on photo2text.com. Depending on where you want to paste it, you might have problems due to the "receiving" software, but no fault of photo2text. Try copying and having a look at your clipboard -- you'll see the spaces aren't removed (and sorry for spelling it out to you :-)
Cheers.
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It's completely their fault. For all practical intents and purposes in's fundamentally flawed. They should use periods instead of spaces. It's like seeing an airplane without wings and saying "that's not the designers fault" because it can still drive up and down the runway.
Stash, you're still not understanding the problem.
Try this:
1) Get a picture converted to ascii art at photo2text.com
2) Select and copy the resulting ascii
3) Open up MS Word, TextWrangler, Text Edit, or your favourite word processor
4) Paste
5) Voilá - your ascii art is pasted, complete with spaces!
The only thing you might need to change (depending on where you're pasting) is the size of the font used (but, of course, you know that :-)
Cheers.
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1) Get in wingless plane
2) Start engine
3) Check gauges
4) Radio control tower
5) Voilá - drive up and down runway!
Well, if we add wings to your plane, it will fly. If we add periods to the ascii art (your suggestion at #2.4), what will change?
Cheers.
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I need you to make a greater effort in absorbing the information I'm giving you. You seem to be tip-toeing around it for some reason. Go ahead and just bite you off a big hunk; chew on it for a while.
On second thought, just do this: Try pasting your ascii in the comment block and see what happens when you post it.
Stash,
I'll stop being sarcastic and try to be helpful -- sorry for the above posts.
Please bear in mind that this problem you're encountering (pasting an ascii art into Newsvine comment blocks) is Newsvine's fault, not photo2text.com's. Newsvine strips out what it thinks are redundant characters from these comment blocks, thus the problem you face. As I said at the beginning, it's a problem at the receiving end (in this case, Newsvine), not a problem with photo2text. If you try and paste your ascii art into a word processor, you'll see it works fine.
Newsvine want to be able to format your text here the way they want (at least, keeping it within certain boundaries). That's their decision (and, all things considered, probably the right one -- imagine if everyone used their favourite font, colour, size, etc!), but that's what's causing your ascii art to break.
If they took out all the spaces and put in periods instead, your ascii art wouldn't be as impressive as it is with white space (if you don't believe me, do a global serach/replace in Word or whatever word processor you use).
Cheers, and once again, sorry for all the sarcasm above.
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Let me go out on a limb here and assume they wanted a "picture" of the ascii art, not the actual text. That is what I did, so I used paint shop pro, started screen capture, then captured the "text" image as a jpg picture.
Goodness, I am not sure that makes sense, but my first thought, after I did my personal thing was "I can't right click and save" because I was thinking like it was a picture, not text. I had to pause and consider how I could save it as an image. And I did. Now I can use it as any image. On Newsvine articles, if I shrink it, as my profile image, etc....
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Arizonan,
Good suggestion. Photo2text provides you with text, but there is nothing to hinder you turning that text into a picture, as you suggest.
Cheers.
Ah, I remember the old days of ascii-art , in about 1981, I paid about twenty bucks at a "world of wheels" booth for a picture of me like this, on the old daisy wheel printer paper.
I also remember in Business school, when we were learning how to type on the IBM selectric typewriters, on Friday after noons we could do anyting on the typewriters as long as we were typing, and we would take hours making a rose or such line up right and come out of the type writer looking like we wanted it too.. LOL
by the way, this site unfortunately you can't click and save, and also mine is so lite it doesn't look right.
Thanks for the memories..
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#3 - Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:32 AM EDTThanks for the memories..
Arizonan, you're welcome. I started using computer in the 80's (TRS, Apple ii, etc.). To think back on what impressed us on those days is startling -- technology has progressed in leaps and bounds in this area!
Cheers.
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Paddy, I had a program to solve the rubiks cube, on cassette tape for one of my first computers.. LOL in early 80's. It had cassette tapes for goodness sakes how strange does that seem now?
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Reminds me of the old TK 2000 I had (a Brazilian clone of the Apple II, 6502 processor). 48 Kbytes of RAM, no monitor (you plugged in into the television set), 4 colours (with dithering we got a whole lot more), and the infamous cassette tape you mention. Brilliant.
Now it's me that says: Thanks for the memories :-)
Cheers.
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