aview.1

.TH NAME SECTION 
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.SH NAME
aview \- An high quality ascii-art image(pgm) browser
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B aview
.I "[options] filename.p[ngbp]m"
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
This manual page documents briefly the
.BR aview ,
and
.B asciiview
commands.
This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
because the original program does not have a manual page.
.PP
.B aview/asciiview
is a program that show files with ascii-art. 
.B aview
support zooming/unzooming, three dithering modes, Inversion, Contrast, Bright,
Gamma control and can save into many formats (html, text, ansi, more/less
etc...). The 
.B aview
can only show files in the PNM file format. But the 
.B asciiview 
program convert the file formats to PNM (with extern programs like NetPBM and
ImageMagic) and start 
.B aview.
It's support the driver from the aalib. Normaly slang, x11 and stdout. It
support the mousedriver (X11 and gpm) too. 
.SH OPTIONS
For a complete description, make only
.TP
.B aview 
.TP 
This show all option.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.B bb
,
.B "aalib (info-page)"
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Michael Bramer <grisu@debian.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).