[ILUG] images in mail...

[David Neary]

John P. Looney wrote:
>  Just thought of something. Any mailcap experts ? 
> 
>  I was thinking, it'd be cool if any images I was emailed could be scaled
> down to 80 pixels wide, then piped to an IMG->ASCII converted, for
> displaying in mutt.
> 
>  I was thinking of something like;
> 
> image/*; convert -scale 80 '%s' - | some_ascii_filter |  ; copiousoutput
> 
>  Any ideas what an ascii filter could be ?

You could roll your own using libAA - something like the aa
plug-in to the gimp, only more general. Should be a trivial
enough operation... 

aa_init() with the required stuff, followed by repeated 
aa_putpixel() on the loaded image. Then set the renderparams to
sane values, and away ye go. Clean up with aa_flush and aa_close
and we're done.

Dave.

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       David Neary,
    Marseille, France
  E-Mail: bolsh at gimp.org