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)