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asciiview(1)


NAME

   aview - A high quality ASCII art image viewer

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

   This  manual  page  was  written  for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
   because the original program does not have a manual page.

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

   aview  supports  zooming/unzooming,  three  dithering modes, inversion,
   contrast, brightness, gamma control and  can  save  into  many  formats
   (html, text, ansi, more/less etc.).

   aview  can  only  show  files  in  the  PNM  file format. But asciiview
   automatically converts the file formats to PNM  (with  extern  programs
   like NetPBM and ImageMagic) and then runs aview.

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

CONTROLS

   a,w,d,x
          Move the image one row/column.

   A,W,D,X
          Move the image one page.

   Z,+    Zoom in.

   z,-    Zoom out.

   s      Save image.

   m      Change dithering mode.

   q      Quit the viewer.

   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.

OPTIONS

   For a complete description, type aview --help.  This shows all options.

BUGS

   Please report any bugs you find to Jan Hubicka <hubicka@freesoft.cz>.

LICENSE

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

SEE ALSO

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

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).

                           December 17, 2001                      AVIEW(1)



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