AsciiArt Pro v4.0 by Andrew Crowe, Manta Soft 23/3/97 Here is the tutorial for 'Iff' option in AsciiArt Pro, What it does is to recreate the shades in a picture using Ascii Charecters Here are some instructions: Usage is simple enough, first you select 'Load Iff' and pick the NONAGA picture you want to convert, then you change the settings, and then you render. Here is a discription of the commands: Render - Draws the picture with the current settings. Text Darker/Text Lighter - This cycle gadget alows you to select whever you want the text to be lighter or darker than the background. Load IFF - This lets you load your picture into AsciiArt Pro. 2 colour pictures use shape tracing, more than 2 colour pictures use shading Set Size - This lets you set the size of the output. Set Options - This lets you set the contrast/brightness of the output ·Contrast - The lower the number, the greater the difference between dark and light will be. ·Brightness- The higher the number, the brighter the output will look. (These will have no effect on 2 colour shape traced pictures) Back - Returns you to the main editing screen This is a small tutorial to teach you how to use convert Iff: 1. Go into the convert iff menu. 2. Load the IFF picture 'AsciiArt-Tutor.iff" 3. Click on 'Render'. You will see that the output is squashed and too dark. 4. Now click 'Set Options' and change the brightness to 40 5. Then click on 'Set size' and change the width to 80 and the height to 90. 6. Click on render again. As you can see, it looks alot better now. 7. Now, if you want, you can turn off all non-ascii charecters by using the button bar (selected buttons are turned off). 7. Now click 'Back' and you can do what ever you like to it in the AsciiArt Pro editing screen. The best way to get good results it trial and error, so don't expect it to look good first time! 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