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limewater02
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Dec 21, 2009 9:42 PM UTC
Question

ascii-line art question

Hi,

I have made a series of ascii-drawings as illustrations for a story book.
This is very font sensitive and the font that I am using is "Courier".

An example is shown below.



                                                       ~V~
    ~V~                                          ~V~    )           ~V~
     )                                            ) >-~-<            )
>-~-<                                        >-~-<  \  /~       >-~-<
\,,,,\,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\,,/~,,,,,,,,,,,,,/,,,/~,,,,,,,


I need to make large sized prints of these ascii drawings, for a gallery show.

I am a newbie when it comes to digital art production. Any suggestions?
Would re-typing these pictures in adobe illustrator in Courier font at a large font size work?
Are there any better methods?

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    Junk Mailer
    Known Participant
    Dec 21, 2009 9:50 PM UTC

    Set them in Illustrator or InDesign, convert all type to outlines and then

    save as a PDF. Then anyone can print it at any size (it's vector) and you

    won't have to worry about characters shifting, etc. and ruining the

    integrity of your illustrations.

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    Dov Isaacs
    Dov Isaacs
    Legend
    Dec 21, 2009 10:18 PM UTC

    There is no good reason to convert the type to outlines. Simply export to PDF with fonts embedded. Converting to outlines bloats the file and can result in blotchy text at smaller magnifications. Text realized via fonts using intelligent scaling via the "hinting" in the fonts. There is no downside to embedding the fonts.

              - Dov

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    - Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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