AVIEW(1)                                                 AVIEW(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 dis-
       tribution 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)