Subj : New to Synchronet
To : Xir
From : LaRRy LaGoMoRpH
Date : Mon Nov 03 2014 09:37 pm
Re: New to Synchronet
By: Xir to LaRRy LaGoMoRpH on Mon Nov 03 2014 03:10 pm
> Re: New to Synchronet
> By: LaRRy LaGoMoRpH to Xir on Mon Nov 03 2014 12:31 pm
>
>
> Thanks for the BBSlink.net idea. That's a stellar idea and I'm going to
> avail myself of it, I believe.
>
> Does PabloDraw support the old TheDraw fonts? I still have a bunch of
> those lying around on some CD backups that I'm playing with using TheDraw un
d
> DOSBOX but I don't have to tell you how clunky that is.
>
> I appreciate the reply. =)
>
> Xir
> Sysop, Bayou Connection
>
I don't believe PabloDraw has fonts, but I could be wrong. It has some stuff
you wouldn't expect, like server functionality for collaborative drawing, but I
don't think it has fonts.
There are probably a few ways to do fonts, but the way I do it is using a tool
in the browser that generates ASCII fonts and I just copy and paste into Pablo
Draw. It's not ideal, but in a lot of ways it's superiorto the Draw which
people have told me is not a vortex I want to get sucked into. I remember
being good at making animations inthe 90's, and that would be what I miss in
Pablo Draw, although I can animate a bit using some synchronet Javascript
libraries. But yeah, I digress, I don't believe it supports the Draw fonts,
but you should be able to copy and paste something similar inthere. This is
the URL of the place I generate ASCII fonts, I'm sure there are other ways to
do it including from the command line, but using this URL with the copy and
paste method is my trick :
http://patorjk.com/software/taag/
I have to color stuff in after it's done, but I'm ok with that. When I think
about it, there's probably a gazillion features that could be added to Pablo
Draw to make things easier, but I have no idea who even wrote it and I'm just
grateful there's something semi-modern, cross platform, etc that is pretty
stable for making ANSI art. There's probably not a huge market for that
software, although it seems like there are ANSI artists active who don't do the
BBS thing but still enjoy the artform. I think the majority of those people
use Pablo Draw, for what it's worth.
Glad to hear you're probably gonna sign up for BBS link, more players for the
games! Watch out for me in Tradewars.
cheers,
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