Your image, I think, can afford to be very much better, to almost
perfection in this case. With text, either use very little jpging
compression or better, for bandwidth, use gif or png.
Yes, there are probably better ways to convert text to an image. If I have a
real need for it I'll try various alternatives. I might even be able to use
an automation interface to my CAD application (IMSI TurboCAD), which can
display high quality text and export in various formats. But that would be
client-side. To be really useful there should be a server-side script that
can do that, and perhaps there is.
All styles off, js on:
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I like it though! Your poem is more powerful than you think given
these combination of contexts. Bet you never dreamed this as a
nine year old.
That must be a browser other than IE8 or Firefox 3.6. I wonder why it does
that? I don't know how to turn styles off.
Not much point using an image as alternative if the alternative
is called out in the case of no images being available. Usually
alt text should serves as the best *immediate* alternative in the
circumstances.
Just by the way, don't ask, but I have time lord powers and I
have gone back to alter your poem. The one you wrote is a four
line one. In my opinion, the fifth line is redundant and the
poem strengthened by its omission. I have left it as a thought in
a nine year old head.
Yes, the redone-dance of the Fifth Dimension. I thought I felt a rip in the
space-time continuum! Now we're in a slightly altered alternative universe
But I still have my paper originals which I typed on a WWII era
typewriter I had around 1958, until around 1963 when I got a more modern
machine (but still a typewriter). I wrote 131 poems (all numbered) until
1974. Scanned into text and WordStar when I got my first real personal
computer in 1984. It had two 5-1/4" floppies and probably 256K RAM with an
8086 processor running 7 MHz "Turbo Mode" up from the original 4.77 MHz.
Then, after a long "dry spell", I wrote a few more from 1998 to 2000. They
were OK, but not as much inspired as some of my earlier poems. Most of them
are on my personal website, as early attempts at HTML, mostly created with
MS Word.
Paul
www.peschoen.com