NAME¶
cacaview - ASCII image browser
SYNOPSIS¶
cacaview [FILE...]
DESCRIPTION¶
cacaview is a lightweight text mode image viewer. It renders images using
colour ASCII characters. It is a powerful add-on to famous console programs
such as the mutt email client, the slrn newsreader and the links or w3m web
browsers.
cacaview can load the most widespread image formats: PNG, JPEG, GIF, PNG,
BMP etc.
You can zoom and scroll the image around for more details, and choose four
different dithering modes. All commands are accessible through a single key
press.
KEYS¶
- ?
- show the help screen
- n, p
- switch to next image, previous image
- Left, Right, Up, Down or h, l, k, j
- scroll the image around
- +, -
- zoom in and out
- z
- reset the zoom level to normal
- f
- switch fullscreen mode (hide/show menu and status
bars)
- d
- toggle the dithering mode (no dithering, 4x4 ordered
dithering, 8x8 ordered dithering and random dithering)
- q
- exit the program
EXAMPLE¶
cacaview /usr/share/pixmaps/*.*
BUGS¶
There is no support for aspect ratio yet. Also, since there is no way yet to
load an image from
cacaview it is completely useless when run without
an argument.
SEE ALSO¶
img2txt(1)
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was written by Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net>.