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WinFace www.xs4all.nl/~walterln/winface
I often use friendly soft, so far it's one program named WinFace. This program is an interface for the compface library, originally programmed by James Ashton. Because command-line tools work rather awkward with images, a simple graphical user interface is useful. Yee, yah ... that's right !
In order to view an X-Face, copy the part after X-Face: present in the headers of the e-mail message or Usenet post and paste it in the edit-box in the interface, and click "To Image". The X-Face will now be decompressed and converted to an image. You can save this image to disk as a .BMP file by clicking "Save...". With "Open..." you can open a .BMP file from disk, which will be converted into an X-Face. Then you can paste this text into your newsreader or mailclient settings as a custom "X-Face" header. Don't worry ... How this is accomplished is described for Xnews in chapter below.
Before copying the text to the clipboard, you may need to click the "Single Line" or "C-Escape" buttons first - this depends on your newsreader or mailclient (For Xnews you first need to click "Single Line" but not "C-Escape"). To copy the X-Face text to the clipboard: right-click the edit box and click "Select All". Right-click the edit box again and select "Copy". You might want to test the correct configuration by posting in a test newsgroup such as alt.test or sending an e-mail to yourself to confirm the correct X-Face header was sent along with your message.
WinFace author, me too, warn you ... For the best results, the .BMP image should be 48x48 pixs, black-and-white. Other image sizes will work, but will be shrunk or stretched (by Windows) which usually produces ugly results. Note that if you use a bitmap with colors, WinFace won't complain, but if you used colors and/or grayscale, the resulting image may not be what you expect.
Notice: You can use any graphical program to convert a color image to grayscale and then to black-and-white using error diffusion dithering.
Xnews xnews.newsguy.com Xnews (polish): www.xnews.prv.pl
Look it ! ... Today Xnews is my favorite newsreader. Therefore here is the info for Xnews only. Sorry, I don't use Microplanet Gravity, Eudora, slrn, etc, because my second newsreader is "nondescript" OE(6) or interesting Mozilla.
... C'est la vie !
So,
open now your Xnews ! ... Go to "Special", "Setup Xnews", "Compose", "Custom
Headers", enter the text "X-Face: " with your X-Face after that, like
this:
X-Face: ,yZe&Tj9$FUgmULRq.59zanbT\\CLj~Ns^BDS!7
...
(note the space after the first colon)
Make sure you first clicked "Single Line" in WinFace to put the X-Face on a single line. It's convenient to put a "*" before "X-Face: "; like this:
*X-Face: ,yZe&Tj9$FUgmULRq.59zanbT\\CLj~Ns^BDS!7 ...
This will make sure it is always sent by default. You can enter multiple X-Face
headers, and select the one you want when composing a message: click "Custom"
button to enable or disable the X-Face header you want (only for the post you are
writing). You can also enter something yourself, click "Manual headers"
button.
Xnews now automatically shows an X-Face if a post has one!