ASCIIcat 8

We're moving from WinHelp to PDF! More and more people are choosing platforms besides Windows, but the main reason for our change is that Microsoft stopped development of WinHelp quite some time back, and they have now dropped all support in their new operating systems. In our quest for platform-independence and future-proofing, most development is moving to OpenOffice.org.

ASCIIcat 8 won't have as many new features as hoped for, because of the enormous task of escaping from WinHelp's proprietary design. The word list has grown by more than 30%, including more definitions. One addition, reciprocity correction for photographic film, was dropped because we are keeping up with these changing digital times. The bad news is that as PDF instead of WinHelp, the new release will be larger, slower, and with less convenient links; there's not much we can do about that.

In many ways the WinHelp version is the ultimate release -- small, very fast, simple navigation -- overall a great way to present reference material. The following describes the final WinHelp release, which will remain available here for now...

ASCIIcat 7.8

ASCIIcat™ is the indispensable reference used daily by several hundred thousand writers, programmers, illustrators, editors, and HTML designers. ASCIIcat is a help file, supporting Windows 95 through Windows XP, but not Windows Vista.

This professionally-designed (not to forget free) ASCII Catalog includes:

Automated setup and uninstall program.
Decimal, hexadecimal, binary, octal, ANSI, and color charts.
ANSI and DOS characters, Symbol and Wingdings fonts.
Windows and DOS color charts and conversions. Color wheel.
Volume, length, weight, temperature conversion.
Inch, millimeter, point, pica, screen resolution conversions.
Enhanced numeric constants, formulas and conversions.
Internet Web-safe and named color swatches.
Paper sizes.
Roman numerals.
Hex, binary calculator.
Parts of a font, point sizes and pixels.
International Codepages.
Line drawing characters.
Keyboard charts for Windows, DOS and HP Palmtop PCs.
Fraction/decimal conversion.
Body mass index table.
Multi-year Calendar. More than 300 holidays.
Writer's style guide.
More than 1000 commonly misspelled and misused words, many with definitions.
Country and state information.
LCID, country codes.
Starts at the most popular page.
Hierarchal table of contents similar to HTMLcat.

download

Install ASCIIcat by running the automated setup program:

asciicat.exe (276KB) Setup program.

You can make sure you never have more than one copy of ASCIIcat running at one time. Visit r_harvey for a free copy of r_help.exe.

ASCIIcat PDF

By popular request, here are some useful tables from the original ASCIIcat. Platform independent, for Adobe™ PDF Reader. Now with more data and super-ruler. Print your own high resolution, high-quality reference.

asciicat.pdf (96KB).

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We do design and writing for print, PDF, the Web, and Windows Help. High performance programming in C/C++ and Assembly, and consulting. We have the highest quality screen fonts around, including terminal emulation fonts. Available for licensing for use with your applications. We beat every major font foundary in head-to-head comparisons.

Visit r_harvey home page for more books, utilities, fonts, lots to look at and download.

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Don't link directly to the files, they will move! Want to link to this page? Download ASCIIcat, then follow the instructions in ASCIICAT.TXT. It includes a cool, colorful button you can place on your page.