Posted by richard on 10/04/06 04:29

<alanryder@aol.com> wrote in message
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> There is a web based program that turns images into a text version of
> the image. Each letter is a different color that corresponds with the
> original image color. I can get the text off the page, but it doesn't
> retain the color info. They only way I can use it is to do a screen
> dump. I want to do a really large image though, and to piece together
> all those dumps would be too hard.
>
> Is there any way to do a dump of just not just what's on the screen,
> but the buffer too, to get all the text with color info off the page?
> Would InDesign or Quark, or Illustrator do it, if text with color info
> is pasted into them? What about an HTML authoring program? Would that
> convert it to an image, and keep the color pasted?
>
> The site is http://www.text-image.com/. Would really appreciate any
> help! Thanks!
>

That site uses some of the crudest rendering I've seen so far.
A few years ago I found one program that renders better ascii art in html
using the [] shortcut method.
Drawback to it is detail isn't as good as that site's output is. Depends on
the image too I guess.
I don't seem to have it on my laptop but have it on another drive somewhere.
I only recall that it was available from an australian website and featured
the face of "Arnie Schwazeneger".
If I can find it, I'll post it.

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