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echo: bbs_internet
to: Martin Kazmaier
from: Rob Swindell
date: 2023-08-12 18:15:00
subject: ANSI Woes...

  Re: ANSI Woes...
  By: Martin Kazmaier to All on Sat Aug 12 2023 04:35 pm

 > I hired someone from insolvo to do some ansi art for me and it has been a
 > less than thrilling experience.  First, I got an  HTML file with each
 > character done one at a time, but it wasn't .ans so I couldn't use it.
 > Then, he used mobius and pablodraw, but as soon as I view it with aciddraw
 > or my
 > bbs, I get a doubled image.  In pablodraw, it looks ok unless I turn the
 > sauce off, in which case it looks funky.  The images are saved as .png at
 > https://shsbbs.net/image1.png and https://shsbbs.net/image2.png .  Any
 > ideas?

Looks to me like it's a 79 column ANSI (which is what you normally want) but doesn't have a CRLF to force a new line on each row, so you end up with a printing character in the 80th column (generally, a bad idea) and off-by-one for each subsequent row.
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