cacaview - ASCII image browser
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Bugs
There is no support for aspect ratio yet. Also, since there is no way yet to load an image from cacaview
it is completely useless when run without an argument.
Description
cacaview is a lightweight text mode image viewer. It renders images using colour ASCII characters. It is
a powerful add-on to famous console programs such as the mutt email client, the slrn newsreader and the
links or w3m web browsers.
cacaview can load the most widespread image formats: PNG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP etc.
You can zoom and scroll the image around for more details, and choose four different dithering modes. All
commands are accessible through a single key press.
Example
cacaview /usr/share/pixmaps/*.*
Keys
? show the help screen
n,p switch to next image, previous image
Left,Right,Up,Downorh,l,k,j
scroll the image around
+,- zoom in and out
z reset the zoom level to normal
f switch fullscreen mode (hide/show menu and status bars)
d toggle the dithering mode (no dithering, 4x4 ordered dithering, 8x8 ordered dithering and random
dithering)
q exit the program
Name
cacaview - ASCII image browser
See Also
img2txt(1)
Synopsis
cacaview[FILE...]
