Ascii Art Generator

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Post by saratonite » Fri, May 04, 2018, 6:06 AM UTC

Re: Ascii Art Generator

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Post by vortico » Fri, May 04, 2018, 6:47 AM UTC

Looks like a frontend for the command line utility FIGlet (http://www.figlet.org/) or toilet (http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet).

Re: Ascii Art Generator

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Post by sgt » Fri, May 04, 2018, 6:55 AM UTC

vortico wrote: post #2

Looks like a frontend for the command line utility FIGlet ( http://www.figlet.org/ ) or toilet ( http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet ).

Except it's actually worse than typical frontends. It's maybe cleaner looking, but it doesn't allow you to test all font types at the same time.

Re: Ascii Art Generator

#4

Post by enesunal » Fri, May 04, 2018, 7:14 AM UTC

Generating all the styles at once could be helpful. Nice work

Re: Ascii Art Generator

#5

Post by ddtaylor » Fri, May 04, 2018, 7:17 AM UTC

Does anyone know a tool like this that doesn't send queries to the server? I know there are command-line options, but I'm looking for something like a github.io URL that has no server-side component.

Re: Ascii Art Generator

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Post by larschdk » Fri, May 04, 2018, 7:23 AM UTC

vortico wrote: post #2

Looks like a frontend for the command line utility FIGlet ( http://www.figlet.org/ ) or toilet ( http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet ).

It amazes me that FIGlet are still releasing for MS-DOS, Acorn, OS/2 and Amiga in 2014.

Re: Ascii Art Generator

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Post by sshine » Fri, May 04, 2018, 7:24 AM UTC

ddtaylor wrote: post #5

Does anyone know a tool like this that doesn't send queries to the server? I know there are command-line options, but I'm looking for something like a github.io URL that has no server-side component.

There appears to be at least two ECMAScript implementations that are compatible with the FIGlet font specification:

https://github.com/scottgonzalez/figlet-js

https://github.com/patorjk/figlet.js

Re: Ascii Art Generator

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Post by larschdk » Fri, May 04, 2018, 7:26 AM UTC

ddtaylor wrote: post #5

Does anyone know a tool like this that doesn't send queries to the server? I know there are command-line options, but I'm looking for something like a github.io URL that has no server-side component.

http://patorjk.com/software/taag/ (Demo site of a ECMAScript implementation of FIGlet: https://www.npmjs.com/package/figlet).

Re: Ascii Art Generator

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Post by walrus01 » Fri, May 04, 2018, 7:30 AM UTC

vortico wrote: post #2

Looks like a frontend for the command line utility FIGlet ( http://www.figlet.org/ ) or toilet ( http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet ).

If you like figlet, pipe its ouput into lolcat

Re: Ascii Art Generator

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Post by ddtaylor » Fri, May 04, 2018, 7:37 AM UTC

sshine wrote: post #7

ddtaylor wrote: post #5

Does anyone know a tool like this that doesn't send queries to the server? I know there are command-line options, but I'm looking for something like a github.io URL that has no server-side component.

There appears to be at least two ECMAScript implementations that are compatible with the FIGlet font specification: https://github.com/scottgonzalez/figlet-js https://github.com/patorjk/figlet.js

Thanks this is exactly what I was looking for.