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To draw an ascii picture, all you have to do is select an ascii charecter, either by using the table in the button bank, or just press the one you want on the keyboard. **** 2: Brushes ****************** To pickup a brush, you click on 'pickup' in the brush menu, and mark out the area you want as a brush. You can then paint with it like single charecters. If you want to stop using the brush (to do some detail with single chrs) click on the use button (clicking again will turn it on again) **** 3: Using IFF pics *********** To convert a picture to ascii, just press on the 'convertpic' button and select a picture. To get the most out of this option you must play with the contrast settings in the iff 'options' button. It takes practise to get good results. If the picture is only 2 colours then asciiart pro traces around the shapes to make smooth ascii lines. If you change the text colours then converting it from iff will use the next text/bg colour. (see 'AsciiArt-2ColShape.AAF') **** 4: Animation **************** To start the animation you first set the no. of fraims. If you have started an anim then you can add fraims to it. When you save you can use 2 formats - .AAF - AsciiAnimationFormat is my own format. At the moment AAPS only supports uncompressed type 0 format. AsciiStream - This produces a big ascii file, and with abit of modifing, could be used in BBS's/MUCK's etc. * You can't load ascii streams back into AAPS. **** 5: Registering ************** To register AsciiArtPro Studio, just send your name, cash/cheque or postal order for £5 (or equivalent in your own currency), and your EMail/mail/phone No. to : Andrew Crowe 17 lansdowne Rd. Hove E.Sussex BN3 1FE England And I will send you your keyfile password. If you have any questions then EMail me ( andrewcrowe@enterprise.net ) Make Cheques payable to A.Crowe **** 6: Other notes ************** If you can think of anything missing from this release, then EMail me, because the only way I can make this better is with YOUR help. ! EMail note - ! During School terms I will not be able to answer EMails until the weekends because I go to a boarding school, so don't wory if you don't get a reply quickly! Trouble Shooting: Known Bugs: there are a few bugs in the brush display and pickup, and I will fix them for V1.0 release. (you can only pickup brushes from topleft->bottomright) Apart from that, I haven't had any other problems with it, so if there are, EMail them to me. Here is a brief explanation of the error requester ------------------------------------ | Error 31 : Bad Args. +---------- Here it tells you | | what the error was. | ---------------------------------| || Retry | Cancel | Ignore | Quit ||----- Here are your options. ------------------------------------ Retry - Retrys the error. Cancel - Ignores the error and continues. Ignore - Ignores all errors. Quit - Quits AsciiArt Pro. **** Have Fun **************