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Bmp2Ascii
Saturday, May 5, 2001 | Permalink

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This is a small utility that takes a bmp file an converts it into a ASCII image
for posting on forums that supports the [COLOR] tag.
At this time it only supports 24 bit bmp files where width * 3 / 4 is an integer (I haven't taken care of aligning).
It supports a form of compression to take the size of the image down and various chars to build the image.

Use it with care, the images can be quite large, so use images no larger than maybe 64x64. Use the compression feature to as high extent as possible without ruining the image.