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Package: aview (1.3.0rc1-7) [universe]

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Please consider filing a bug or asking a question via Launchpad before contacting the maintainer directly.

Original Maintainer (usually from Debian):

  • Uwe Hermann

It should generally not be necessary for users to contact the original maintainer.

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A high quality ASCII art image viewer and video player

aview is a high quality ASCII art image viewer and video player. It is especially useful with a text-based browser such as lynx, links or w3m.

It supports the pnm, pgm, pbm and ppm image formats, as well as the FLI and FLC video formats. It also supports output via stdio, (n)curses and slang and even has support for gpm.

Features

 * High quality ASCII art rendering
 * Portable
 * Save into many formats (HTML, text, ANSI, more/less etc...)
 * Contrast, Bright, Gamma control
 * Image zooming/unzooming
 * Three dithering modes
 * Hidden bonus features :)
 * Inversion
 * Support for bright, dim, inverse attributes/extended character set

Other Packages Related to aview

  • depends
  • recommends
  • suggests
  • dep: libaa1 (>= 1.2)
    ascii art library
  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1)
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
  • dep: libncurses5 (>= 5.4-5) [powerpc]
    Shared libraries for terminal handling

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Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
amd64 28.7 kB132 kB no current information
i386 26.4 kB128 kB no current information
powerpc 31.3 kB136 kB no current information