Ubuntu Manpage: cadubi - Creative ASCII Drawing Utility By Ian

NAME

       cadubi - Creative ASCII Drawing Utility By Ian

DESCRIPTION

       cadubi  is  an application written in Perl that allows you to draw text-based images that are viewable on
       typical UNIX-based consoles. Usually the applications that emulate these consoles  support  various  text
       modes, such as background and foreground colors, bold, and inverse. This text art, commonly called "ASCII
       art", is used in various places such as online BBSes, email and login prompts.

OPTIONS

       -h --help
              display some documentation

       -m --mute
              turn off beeping

       -s [ W ] [ H ]

       --size [ W ] [ H ]
              sets the size of the console for use with cadubi, where W is number of columns and H is number  of
              rows.

       -v --version
              show cadubi's version

CONFIGURING

       Beeping and command line options can be also set in /usr/bin/cadubi.

KEYBOARD

       i j k l
              Move  the  cursor around. Holding down shift and typing these keys will move the ursor five spaces
              instead of one.

       space  Paint the current pen on the screen.

       return/enter
              Move the cursor down one line and all the way to the left of the console.

       delete  or  backspace  or  `
              Delete the character before the cursor.

       p      Prompt for a pen character

       f      Prompt for foreground color (see section colors).

       b      Prompt for background color (see section colors).

       g      Toggle bold mode.

       v      Toggle inverse mode.

       shift-w
              Toggle blink (highly annoying).

       t      Enter text mode. This allows you to type like as if you were using a normal text editor,  and  all
              the characters drawn onscreen will use the same mode as the pen Pressing Esc will exit text mode.

       control-w
              Refresh the entire screen by redrawing each character.

       control-r
              Open a file.

       control-o
              Save the file.

       control-h
              Show the quick help screen.

       control-x
              Exit cadubi.

USING

Cadubi has a 'pen' which describes the current mode. Properties of the pen are the painting character,
foreground color, background color, bold, inverse, and blink. Whenever you paint or use the text mode,
the characters drawn on the screen will have the properties of the pen. The current mode of the pen is
shown at the bottom of the console and is what will be drawn on screen when you paint. Typically,
foreground text colors are the same as background colors, unless the text is bold. If the text is bold,
foreground colors are usually lighter than the background color, making text easier to read when the text
has the same foreground and background color. Refer to the Quick Help (control-'h') to see what the
colors look like on your console.

Text mode is an extremely useful feature. Once in the text mode you can type as if you were using a
normal text editor, and all the characters drawn onscreen will use the same mode as the pen. To enter
text mode, press the 't' key. To exit, press escape.

When cadubi reads a file, it will only read as much that will fit in the workspace (the area of the
console minus the bottom row [status bar]). To gain more workspace, see the '-s' operator in section
"options".

Cadubi optimizes its output files to display properly and take up as little space as possible. All cadubi
output can be viewed with the 'cat' utility.

COLORS

       The  color  codes  are  case-insensitive.  The following color codes can be chosen as fore- or background
       colors:

              0 or N - Normal (standard text)

              1 or W - White

              2 or R - Red

              3 or G - Green

              4 or Y - Yellow

              5 or B - Blue

              6 or M - Magenta

              7 or C - Cyan

              8 or K - Black

WARNING

       Cadubi uses escape sequences for things like color. These may differ from system to  system.  This  means
       that  the  file  generated  by  cadubi  may  trash  your console when viewed with for example cat.  It is
       generally safe to use the files on the same type of console as they were generated on.

AUTHORS

       Cadubi was created and is currently being  maintained  by  Ian  Langworth.  Please  send  all  questions,
       comments, hate mail and bug reports to ian@langworth.com