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.SH NAME
aseprite \- sprite editor
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B aseprite
.RI [ options ] " files" ...
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B aseprite
program. 
.PP
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\fBaseprite\fP (aka ASE, Allegro Sprite Editor) is a program to create animated sprites & pixel art. Sprites are little images that can be used in your website or in a video game. You can draw characters with movement, intros, textures, patterns, backgrounds, logos, color palettes, isometric levels, etc. 
.SH OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
.TP
.B \-\-palette <filename>
Use a specific palette by default.
.TP
.B \-\-shell
Start an interactive console to execute scripts.
.TP
.B \-\-batch
Do not start the UI.
.TP
.B \-\-data <filename>
File to store the sprite sheet metadata (.json file).
.TP
.B \-\-sheet <filename>
Image file to save the texture (.png).
.TP
.B \-\-verbose                 
Explain what is being done (in stderr or a log file).
.TP
.B \-\-help
Display help and exit.
.TP
.B \-\-version
Output version information and exit.
.SH RESIZING
.TP
Resizing of the window is unfortunately not possible with this version, because it requires a patched version of Allegro. Until the patch is in an official Allegro release and in Debian, one can set the size of the window in ~/.config/aseprite/aseprite.ini via the Width and Height settings in the section [GfxMode]. If these entries don't exist, start and close Aseprite once.
.PP
To get a version of Aseprite with resizing capability, one can obtain and compile the code from https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite.
.SH SEE ALSO
.TP
.BR /usr/share/doc/aseprite/README.md.gz
README file, general information
.TP
.BR http://www.aseprite.org/docs/
Online documentation
.SH AUTHOR
ASEPRITE was written by David Capello.
.PP
This manual page was written by Tobias Hansen <thansen@debian.org>,
for the Debian project (and may be used by others).