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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