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	<title>Ascgen dotNET</title>
	<link>http://ascgendotnet.jmsoftware.co.uk</link>
	<description>Image to Text Software</description>
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		<title>Future of the Ascgen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been a while now, but since Christmas I&#8217;ve been back working on the code.
The entire code base has been cleaned (with the help of these + CodeRush and Refactor!), the whole design is being improved, and lots of little bugs have been fixed. It&#8217;s already massively different and far more readable then before. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ascgendotnet.jmsoftware.co.uk/future-of-the-ascgen</link>
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		<title>Post War ASCII Art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An article about how text art used to be done back in 1948:

Seeing a TV show as a child, where Rolf Harris was shown how to do something similar to that flower, is what got me started on this whole ASCII art thing.  
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		<link>http://ascgendotnet.jmsoftware.co.uk/post-war-ascii-art</link>
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		<title>Bulgarian Translation + News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Sah War we now have a translation file for Bulgarian (Apologies about taking so long to upload it).
Translation files
Direct Link
There are some spacing issues which I will resolve in the next version.
If things work out there may be something special released before Christmas. It&#8217;s not a new version (~mid January), it&#8217;s a separate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ascgendotnet.jmsoftware.co.uk/bulgarian-translation-news</link>
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		<title>Russian and Ukrainian translations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Warrior, we now have translation files for the Russian and Ukrainian languages.
Translation files page:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=133786&#038;package_id=284594
Direct links to the cvs:
Russian
Ukrainian
To use them, just download the file and place it in the same directory as the Ascii Generator executable (only have one translation file there at a time or it won&#8217;t work).
If you would like to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ascgendotnet.jmsoftware.co.uk/russian-and-ukrainian-translations</link>
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		<title>Ascgen dotNET 0.9.6 released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[** Download it here **
I was waiting until I&#8217;d finished rewriting one of the controls, but I just had a pretty huge crash bug pointed out to me.
Added a form to preview the colour output
Added menu item to change the position of the image and text frames from horizontal to vertical
Added automatically choosing the panels [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ascgendotnet.jmsoftware.co.uk/ascgen-dotnet-096-released</link>
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		<title>Ascgen dotNET 0.9.5 released &#8211; Dithering and more</title>
		<description><![CDATA[** Download it here **
Internal design changes, and some cool new stuff.
Dithering
Thanks to an great idea sent to me through sourceforge, the program now comes with the ability to run a dithering filter over the output.
Why would you want this? Well, the text output is like having an image with a small palette of colours. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ascgendotnet.jmsoftware.co.uk/ascgen-dotnet-095-released-dithering-and-more</link>
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		<title>Colour ASCII Art tips, Localization Example and more</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Colour ASCII Art
Since I’ve been playing around with the colour image output a lot in the last few months, I thought I’d share a few tips.
1) The way the output is displayed using characters gives the effect that the colours look lighter then they should. Adjust the image brightness and contrast to make the input [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ascgendotnet.jmsoftware.co.uk/colour-ascii-art-tips-localization-example-and-more</link>
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		<title>Ascii Generator dotNET 0.9.1 released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bug fix (which has literally been there forever), plus a whole new way of choosing how to save the files.
Download it here
Changes:
Added toolstrip with buttons to rotate and flip the input image
Replaced the different save menu items with a dialog
Set Accept (enter) and Cancel (escape) buttons for edit settings and text magnification forms
Fixed ctrl codes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ascgendotnet.jmsoftware.co.uk/ascii-generator-dotnet-091-released</link>
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		<title>Ascii Generator dotNET 0.9.0 Released!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Download it here
Check out the previous post for details about how to translate the program into other languages. If you do a translation, please let me know so I can add it for other people to use.
Changes:
Improved speed of applying convolution matrix (used in output filters)
Added saving to an image with colour
For images with transparency, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ascgendotnet.jmsoftware.co.uk/ascii-generator-dotnet-090-released</link>
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		<title>Next version: Globalization + Save and Print Colour Images</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just as a heads-up, the next version of the program will include the ability to translate it into whatever language you want (or change words to make them sound rude).
Originally I planned to use the inbuilt globalization stuff, but it&#8217;s unbelievable how complex it makes everything. Instead I&#8217;ve come up with my own easy system [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ascgendotnet.jmsoftware.co.uk/next-version-globalization-save-and-print-colour-images</link>
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