ASCII-DRAW(1)

📦 version 1.3.0, in ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 ASCII-DRAW(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the ascii-draw manual — it lives in the User Manuals section, and honestly? it's giving main character energy. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

ascii-draw — draw diagrams using ASCII characters 🌸

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ascii-draw [options]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so ascii-draw is a graphical application that lets you create diagrams and drawings using only ASCII characters. literally just text. and yet. iconic. 🎀

it gives you an intuitive interface for making text-based art, flowcharts, and other ASCII diagrams — no cap.

the app has a drawing canvas where you can place all kinds of ASCII characters to build your designs, and it comes with support for different tools and functionalities. the way that a whole art studio fits inside a text grid?? obsessed. 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -h, --help — show help options 👑
  • --help-all — show all help options (the full lore, fr fr)
  • --help-gapplication — show GApplication options
  • --gapplication-service — enter GApplication service mode (use this from D-Bus service files) 🦋

✨ INSTALLATION ✨

🌈 From Source

git clone https://github.com/Nokse22/ascii-draw.git
cd ascii-draw
# Open in GNOME Builder and run, or build manually

like. clone it, cd into it, and either open it in GNOME Builder and run it, or build it manually. you got this bestie 💪

✨ FILES ✨

  • /usr/bin/ascii-draw — the executable binary (when it's installed system-wide) 🧚
  • ~/.local/share/ascii-draw/ — user configuration and data files, aka where your stuff lives 💜

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

your ASCII-art besties, in the same group chat 📚✨

✨ BUGS ✨

found a bug? don't suffer in silence, report it at: https://github.com/Nokse22/ascii-draw/issues 😭🫶

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Developed by Nokse22. 👑

Project homepage: https://github.com/Nokse22/ascii-draw

✨ LICENSE ✨

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or later as published by the Free Software Foundation.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. (yes, that's the scary-but-important part, take it seriously bestie 💀)

and that's the whole page!! this was ASCII Draw 1.1.0, dated 2025-10-19, straight from the ASCII-DRAW(1) page. periodt. 💖✨🌸

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