{"id":144,"date":"2015-12-08T11:42:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T16:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jsevy.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=144"},"modified":"2026-06-12T16:11:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T20:11:28","slug":"miscellaneous-software","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jsevy.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/miscellaneous-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellaneous Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miscellaneous software packages<\/p>\n<h2>Graphics Software<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/jsevy.com\/software\/old\/textograph_10.zip\">Textograph<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Textograph is a little Java utility for PC&#8217;s (Windows \/ Mac OS \/ Linux \/ Unix) that takes an image in JPEG, GIF, or PNG format and converts it to a black and white image pixelated by text characters. The utility uses different text characters to represent different grayscale levels based on the &#8220;density&#8221; of the characters &#8211; the amount of black in the characters&#8217; glyphs. The resulting images can be saved as plain text files, and used to present pictorial images in text-only media (e.g., for pictorial signatures in email messages, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>The image below is a photograph of the author transformed into a text image with textograph. (The image below is a screenshot to simplify embedding into this webpage.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jsevy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/textograph_screenshot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-145 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/jsevy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/textograph_screenshot.png\" alt=\"textograph_screenshot\" width=\"500\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsevy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/textograph_screenshot.png 500w, https:\/\/jsevy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/textograph_screenshot-250x300.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miscellaneous software packages Graphics Software Textograph Textograph is a little Java utility for PC&#8217;s (Windows \/ Mac OS \/ Linux \/ Unix) that takes an image in JPEG, GIF, or PNG format and converts it to a black and white image pixelated by text characters. The utility uses different text characters to represent different grayscale &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jsevy.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/miscellaneous-software\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Miscellaneous Software<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-144","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsevy.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsevy.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsevy.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsevy.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsevy.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jsevy.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2802,"href":"https:\/\/jsevy.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions\/2802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsevy.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}