I once saw this very cool Page and tried to print it... Too bad i never managed to convert that html in a nice large printable format.
So after some time, i finally wrote this piece of code to create Images like this one:
textimage creates a Postscript Image from an Input-Raw-RGB Image
(picture.rgb) substituting every Input-Image Pixel by a ASCII-character read from a textfile. You may specify mutiple Textfiles. If the End of the Textfile is reached the next file is used, and finally we wrap around...
currently I only support RGP Input-Images. But you may use convert(1)... (and there are already functions implemented to support multiple Image formats one day.)
Usage: ./textimage pictue.rgb height width [OPTIONS] TEXTFILE [TEXTFILE]* Options: [-o FILENAME ] write output to file "FILENAME" instead of STDOUT [-c [-u] ] calculate Fontsize automatically. -u Option gives extra space to not overlap underlength chars. [-s FF LL ] Set Fontsize and Linesize manually to Integer Values FF, LL. Units are Pixels. Fontsize scales in X, Line in Y direction. Default fontsize is 8, linsize 6 pixels. [-f PP ] darken Image (fade) (since white chars on white paper are. usually invisible. Give Percent Value of what 100% white should be faded to (default 85%) [-p P ] set Page Size. Value in Din A (default A4). [-P x y W H ] set custom Page Format in [mm]. x,y specify a border-offset (default 10 mm). W,H the width and the height of the Paper. (eg. A4 default is 10,10,210,297)See also textimage Sourceforge Home
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