.TH AVIEW 1 "December 17, 2001"
.SH NAME
aview \- A high quality ASCII art image viewer
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BR "aview " [ options "] filename.p[ngbp]m"
.br
.BR "asciiview " [ options "] filename.xxx"
.SH DESCRIPTION
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 an image viewer which displays the images in ASCII art...
.PP
.B aview
supports zooming/unzooming, three dithering modes, inversion, contrast,
brightness, gamma control and can save into many formats (html, text, ansi,
more/less etc.).
.PP
.B aview
can only show files in the PNM file format. But
.B asciiview
automatically converts the file formats to PNM (with extern programs like
NetPBM and ImageMagic) and then runs
.BR aview .
.PP
It supports the usual aalib drivers (e.g. slang, x11 and stdout) as well as
the mousedrivers X11 and gpm. 
.SH CONTROLS
.TP
.BR a , w , d , x
Move the image one row/column.
.TP
.BR A , W , D , X
Move the image one page.
.TP
.BR Z , +
Zoom in.
.TP
.BR z , -
Zoom out.
.TP
.B s
Save image.
.TP
.B m
Change dithering mode.
.TP
.B q
Quit the viewer.
.TP
.B i
Turn inversion on.
.TP
.B I
Turn inversion off.
.TP
.B u
Select attributes.
.TP
.B f
Select font.
.TP
.B SPACE
Redraw screen.
.TP
.B .
Increase contrast (dot).
.TP
.B ,
Decrease contrast (comma).
.TP
.B '
Increase gamma (single quote).
.TP
.B ;
Decrease gamma (semicolon).
.TP
.B >
Increase brightness.
.TP
.B <
Decrease brightness.
.SH OPTIONS
For a complete description, type
.BR "aview --help" .
This shows all options.
.SH BUGS
Please report any bugs you find to Jan Hubicka <hubicka@freesoft.cz>.
.SH LICENSE
.B aview
is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL).
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR aafire (1),
.BR aainfo (1),
.BR aasavefont (1),
.BR aatest (1),
.BR aaflip (1),
.BR aa3d (1),
.BR aatv (1),
.BR bb (1),
.BR xaos (6).
.SH AUTHOR
Jan Hubicka <hubicka@freesoft.cz>
.PP
This manual page was written by Michael Bramer <grisu@debian.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).