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FIGlet is a program for making large letters (like ASCII art) out of ordinary text

The program can be customized with fonts.

URL = http://www.figlet.org/

Learn more about Figlet - http://ahkscript.org/boards/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=1218

Thanks

And why was it posted here?

For submission
but I read somewhere that TPFC doesn't take cmd apps.
If it would have, there would have been 10 thousands of apps here ( )

You read it in the FAQ because I told you about it.

avi-aryan wrote:For submission
but I read somewhere that TPFC doesn't take cmd apps.
If it would have, there would have been 10 thousands of apps here ( )

Command-line apps are still welcome, just not in this thread as they can't be added to the database. If you'd like to point people to them, feel free, just ideally in one post / thread under Resources and Links.

Can't have them in the database, fine. But how about a sub-forum section dedicated entirely to them? Centralizing this information might be a better solution than Resources&Links sub-forum.

joby_toss wrote:Can't have them in the database, fine. But how about a sub-forum section dedicated entirely to them? Centralizing this information might be a better solution than Resources&Links sub-forum.

That's more of a question for Andrew than me, but I'd say command-line tools haven't come up that much here on forums. Those are pretty much the realm of admins and automation folks, so not exactly portable users as I picture them.

Still, as someone who does some occasional automation/admin-level stuff, it certainly wouldn't bother me.

guinness wrote:You read it in the FAQ because I told you about it.

Sorry I don't remember.

joby_toss wrote:Can't have them in the database, fine. But how about a sub-forum section dedicated entirely to them? Centralizing this information might be a better solution than Resources&Links sub-forum.

+1
People look for cmd tools as they are light and can be used in other programs/scripts without much trouble.

I, for one, am fond of tools that do just one thing, but do it extremely well (as *nix wisdom puts it). And CLI tools usually fit the bill...

http://www.figlet.org/ wrote:FIGWin, a re-implementation of FIGlet with a GUI

Download FIGWin at ftp://ftp.figlet.org/pub/figlet/program/windows/

Not tested but it started as command line so it might be worthy to test.

File to download is fgwnbeta.zip
Also need vbrun300.dll a dependency (inside application folder works.)
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Since figwin was not really figlet ( for eg, it didn't support many fonts ) , I made a GUI wrapper for figlet.exe
http://aviaryan.github.io/ahk/tools/figletgui.html

I could not locate where to download figlet.exe in the first place, .... but anyway, it looks like that figlet.exe is a 16-bit application according to : " https://qastack.in.th/superuser/1361312 ... windows-10 " (chrome will translate the page into English).
Since the source code is available, someone may enjoy recompiling the source code for 64-bit platforms ...
On another hand ... there are many free apps that can convert images into ASCII art ... some are better than others ... and the quality of the output also depends on the original image ...

Haven't tried it but this seems to be a 32bit windows version https://sourceforge.net/projects/figlet-for-windows/

Thank you lintalist.
I got figlet from your Sourceforge link. It works fine from the command line.

But I am still trying to figure out:

1) How to display a string on several lines
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2) How to get figlet work from the wrapper figwin mentioned earlier in the thread.

I found another Figlet: https://sourceforge.net/projects/figletgenerator/ :
- GUI application for Windows (runs fine in Win10)
- Written in Python / Qt
- Writes several keys to the registry

Depending on the font, this implementation of Figlet can only display 6 or 7 characters on one line, the rest is displayed on the lines below.