1
2	Since version 1.0 was very broken (released in a hurry) there
3is bugfixing 1.1. Only known problem at the moment is that aaflip
4don't work at non intel platforms. There is many fixes and also
5some new features. Most notable are MS-DOS version, support for
6all p?m file formats, user interface for aaflip and asciiview
7script that browses many image formats using ImageMagick or NetPBM
8tools.
9
10What does this software do then ?
11=================================
12
13	aview is an high quality ascii-art image(pnm) browser and
14animation(fli/flc) player usefull especially with lynx browser.
15
16Supports: dos (VGA + MDA), stdio, curses, slang, X11, gpm, linux-console
17
18Features
19========
20 o	High quality ascii art rendering
21 o	Portable
22 o	Save into many formats (html, text, ansi, more/less etc...)
23 o	Contrast, Bright, Gamma control
24 o	Image zooming/unzooming
25 o	Three dithering modes
26 o	Hidden "bonus" features :)
27 o	Inversion
28 o	Support for bright, dim, inverse attributes/extended
29        character set
30
31What is PNM file format?
32========================
33
34	PNM if an graphics format similiar to GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and
35others. Aview uses it because of its simplicity. Many free or shareware
36conversion tools from other graphics format exist (ImageMagick, NetPBM
37for UNIX, alchemy for DOS and others.) So you should use aview to
38browse images in many graphics format. UNIX version has script that
39does conversion automatically (using eighter NetPBM (preffered way)
40or ImageMagic conversion program. FIFO is used to do not waste your
41disc space so conversion is fully transparent. Under DOS and other
42operating systems you probably need to do it yourself.
43
44ChangeLog
45=========
46 o	Fixed bugs in Makefile
47 o	Do not require efence anymore
48 o	Configure script
49 o	Fixed memory leak in flip.c
50 o	Hide cursor
51 o	Extended documentation
52 o	Faster animation preloading
53 o	Uses faster memcpy/memset functions
54 o	image.c now reads P1 - P6 file formats (pgm, ppm, pnm both raw/ascii)
55 o	gifview obsoleted by asciiview - new script that uses eighter
56 	imagemagick or netpbm tools to convert image using fifo.
57	So it is fast and saves memory/disk space
58 o	Added some keys into aaflip - contrast, bright, gamma tunning etc.
59 	Press 'H' for help
60
61Where to find Aview
62===================
63
64   Just join our mailing list: `aa@horac.ta.jcu.cz'. Send:
65subscribe aa
66to majordomo@horac.ta.jcu.cz
67
68   All programs covered under AA-project can be obtained at
69`ftp://ftp.ta.jcu.cz://pub/aa'.
70
71   Or just browse our homepage at `http://www.ta.jcu.cz://aa'. A ton of
72examples of ascii-art generated by aalib, pointers to other AA-Project
73resources etc.
74
75AA-Project
76==========
77
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81                          <PROJECT><PROJECT>
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84
85Three goals of AA-Project:
86
87  1. Port all important software (like Doom, Second Reality, X windows
88     etc..) on AA-lib.
89
90  2. Port AA-lib on all available platforms (mainly ZX-Spectrum and
91     Sharp).
92
93  3. Force IBM to start manufacturing MDA cards again.
94
95   AA-project was started by Jan Hubicka. In that times just a few
96people knew about it. Then a new demo named BB has been relased to show
97the power of AA-lib technology. Now the project is freely available and
98anyone can help.
99
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