ASCII art printer Readme

Program Name ... : aaprint.pl
Current Version : 1.0 (first release)

Date ........... :  09/22/2000
Author ......... :  Cyrille Artho (cyrille@artho.com)

Note: this package is obsolete, get aafont instead, from the same page: http://artho.com/fun_stuff/aafont/

What is is:

A Perl script that rewrites its input, 2.5 times larger, as

/\ ( / | | /\ |) |
/--\_)\_| | /--\|\ | .

Why?

Don't ask - because it is possible :)

How it works:

Both files (aaprint.pl and abc) have to be in the same directory, which has to be the present working directory. If you extract the package with tar -xf aaprint.tar
then you just have to
cd aaprint
and you can use the script.

Usage: aaprint [SPACING>=0] The program expects input from STDIN and writes its output to STDOUT. Commonly, it is therefore used like: ./aaprint.pl <inputfile >outputfile
Screenshots: There are a few screenshots in the archive, taken with the gnome-terminal and a certain font (Courier Bitstream/Biznet or Terminal Bitstream). The other screenshots were taken using the standard xterm with the "tiny" and "unreadable" font settings, respectively.
Todo: The kerning algorithm used in the program is quite primitive, and therefore still exhibits weaknesses with some character combinations. Impromevements are welcome :)

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A note for Windows users:
You need to install Perl 5.004 or higher, get it from http://www.perl.com/