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GIMP offers ASCII art as a target, and that's expected by line printers/teletypewriters; does that mean TXTs can be images?
by a1369209993 8y ago
GIMP offers ASCII art as a target, and that's expected by line printers/teletypewriters; does that mean TXTs can be images?
- jchw 8y agoYeah, you just described how too. KDE used to thumbnail txt files with a portion of their actual text.
- bmn__ 8y agoStill does. Dolphin → Settings → Configure Dolphin… → General → Previews
- jchw 8y agoI see; I mostly used KDE in the 3.x days, back when Konqueror was the file manager and Webkit was still a fairly young KHTML fork.
- bmn__ 8y agoKonqueror and Dolphin use the same kpart under the hood for directory display. Konqueror → Settings → Configure Konqueror… → File Management → General → Previews leads to the same configuration dialog.
- laumars 8y agoThat’s a weird edge case. It’s images to us nerds and hackers but it’s certainly not images to anyone in print. Where as PDFs were used to send final magazine pages (for example) which were ready for print. (Source: I worked for a publishing company in the 90s)