AVIEW(1)

✨ NAME ✨

aview — a high quality ASCII art image viewer 💖

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

aview [options] filename.p[ngbp]m
asciiview [options] filename.xxx

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so real talk bestie, this manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. so like, we're doing the community a service here 💅

aview/asciiview is an image viewer which displays the images in ASCII art...

and the range?? she supports zooming/unzooming, three dithering modes, inversion, contrast, brightness, gamma control and can save into many formats (html, text, ansi, more/less etc.). the versatility is giving main character energy fr fr 👑

so here's the tea tho, and this part matters: aview can only show files in the PNM file format. that's just the rules. 🫶 but asciiview automatically converts the file formats to PNM (with extern programs like NetPBM and ImageMagick) and then runs aview. so asciiview is your girl for basically anything, no cap.

it supports the usual aalib drivers (e.g. slang, x11 and stdout) as well as the mousedrivers X11 and gpm. ✨

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🎀 CONTROLS 🎀

these are the keys you press while you're in there living your best life. lowercase and uppercase are NOT the same thing, bestie, watch those shift keys 🙈

• a, w, d, x — move the image one row/column.
• A, W, D, X — move the image one page. (yeah, same letters, but a whole page of movement. shift key is that girl 💅)
• Z, + — zoom in.
• z, - — zoom out.
• s — save image. 💾
• m — change dithering mode.
• q — quit the viewer. (sad, but necessary 😭)
• i — turn inversion on.
• I — turn inversion off.
• u — select attributes.
• f — select font.
• SPACE — redraw screen. ✨
• . — increase contrast (dot).
• , — decrease contrast (comma).
• ' — increase gamma (single quote).
• ; — decrease gamma (semicolon).
• > — increase brightness.
• < — decrease brightness.

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⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

For a complete description, type aview --help. This shows all options. go off, it's literally all in there 💖

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💀 BUGS 💀

Please report any bugs you find to Jan Hubicka <hubicka@freesoft.cz>. be nice, be specific, include the vibes. 🫶

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🧚 LICENSE 🧚

aview is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL).

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

aafire(1), aainfo(1), aasavefont(1), aatest(1), aaflip(1), aa3d(1), aatv(1), bb(1), xaos(6).

go read the whole family, they're all iconic in their own way ✨

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Jan Hubicka <hubicka@freesoft.cz>

This manual page was written by Michael Bramer <grisu@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). 🎀

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and that's the whole page bestie 💖 this one's from the December 17, 2001 era of the AVIEW(1) manual, part of the General Commands Manual crew — old school, still slaying. take care of her fr fr 🌸