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  1.     AsciiArt Pro    v3.1  by Andrew Crowe, Manta Soft            1/3/97
  2.  
  3.  
  4. Here is the tutorial for 'Iff' option in AsciiArt Pro,
  5. What it does is to recreate the shades in a picture using
  6. Ascii Charecters
  7.  
  8.  
  9. Here are some instructions:
  10.  
  11.  
  12. Usage is simple enough, first you select 'Load Iff' and pick 
  13. the NONAGA picture you want to convert, then you change the 
  14. settings, and then you render.
  15.  
  16. Here is a discription of the commands:
  17.  
  18.  
  19. Render  - Draws the picture with the current settings.
  20.  
  21. Text Darker/Text Lighter  - This cycle gadget alows you to select
  22.             whever you want the text to be lighter or darker than
  23.             the background.
  24.  
  25. Load IFf  - This lets you load your picture into AsciiArt Pro.
  26.             2 colour pictures use shape tracing, more than 2
  27.             colour pictures use shading
  28.  
  29. Set Size  - This lets you set the size of the output.
  30.  
  31. Set Options  - This lets you set the contrast/brightness of the
  32.             output
  33.  
  34. Back   - Returns you to the main editing screen
  35.  
  36.  
  37.  
  38.  
  39.  
  40. This is a small tutorial to teach you how to use convert Iff:
  41.  
  42.  
  43. 1. Go into the convert iff menu.
  44.  
  45. 2. Load the IFF picture 'AsciiArt-Tutor.iff"
  46.  
  47. 3. Click on 'Render'. You will see that the output is squashed
  48.     and too dark.
  49.  
  50. 4. Now click 'Set Options' and change the brightness to 40
  51.  
  52. 5. Then click on 'Set size' and change the width to 80
  53.     and the height to 90.
  54.  
  55. 6. Click on render again. As you can see, it looks alot better now.
  56.  
  57. 7. Now, if you want, you can turn off all non-ascii charecters by
  58.     using the button bar (selected buttons are turned off).
  59.  
  60. 7. Now click 'Back' and you can do what ever you like to it in
  61.     the AsciiArt Pro editing screen.
  62.  
  63.  
  64.  
  65. The best way to get good results it trial and error, so don't expect
  66. it to look good first time!
  67.  
  68. Here is a demonstration of what it can do:
  69.  
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