BG_ASCII is interactive ascii graphic tool. It can create pictures made of ascii characters and save it as black and white plain text files or color html pages.
To create ascii photo press PIC button, then press Open and choose image file (this version can understand up to 27 file formats include jpg, gif, bmp, ico, tif, pcx, pcd and some other). When image is loaded press Go button. Image will be displayed on background.
You can resize image by resizing image window.
You can choose convertion region by left click and drag over desired part of image. Then you can drag selected mask over image.
known BUG - when you select some region and than resize image - visible boundares of selecton will disapear..You should select region once again :(
You can adjust black level by shift left click on desired part of image.
You can adjust white level by shift right click on desired part of image.
Also you can input these values manually.
To create ascii text press TXT button:
Input some text into textbox.
Press long button with font name to choose font face and attributes.
You can adjust font size and foreground and background characters
You can copy or cut ascii graphic into clipboard by pressing Ctrl-C or Ctrl-X. After that you can paste it whenever you want.
