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NAME

       aafigure - convert ASCII art to an image

SYNOPSIS

       aafigure [option...] [input-file]

       aafigure {-h | --help | --version}

DESCRIPTION

       aafigure is an ASCII art to image converter.

       ASCII art figures can be parsed and output as SVG, PNG, PDF and more.

OPTIONS

       The program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (--). Mandatory or optional arguments to
       long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options.

       -o, --output=file
	   Write output to file rather than to the standard output.

       -e, --encoding=encoding
	   Set character encoding for input text. The default is 'UTF-8'.

       -w, --wide-chars=properties
	   Specify which characters should be considered wide.	properties is a comma-separated list of East Asian width[1] symbols:

	   F
	       East Asian Fullwidth

	   H
	       East Asian Halfwidth

	   W
	       East Asian Wide

	   Na
	       East Asian Narrow

	   A
	       East Asian Ambiguous

	   N
	       Neutral (Not East Asian)

	   The default is 'F,W'.

       -t, --type=format
	   Use the provided output format. By default, output format is inferred from the output file name extension.

	   The following formats are supported: SVG, PDF, PNG and any file format supported by Python Imaging Library.

       -D, --debug
	   Enable debug outputs.

       -T, --textual
	   Disable horizontal fill detection.

       -s, --scale=scale
	   Use the specified scale.

       -a, --aspect=aspect
	   Use the specified aspect ratio.

       -l, --line-width=width
	   For SVG output format, use the specified line width.

       --proportional
	   Use a proportional font rather than a fixed-width font.

       -f, --foreground=#rrggbb
	   Use the specified foreground color. The default is black (#000000).

       -x, --fill=#rrggbb
	   Use the specified fill color. The default is the foreground color.

       -b, --background=#rrggbb
	   Use the specified background color. The default is white (#ffffff).

       -O, --option=extra-options
	   Pass special options to backends. (For expert users only.)

       -h, --help
	   Display help and exit.

       --version
	   Display version information and exit.

AUTHOR

       Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
	   Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2009, 2010 Jakub Wilk

NOTES

	1. East Asian width
	   http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr11/

aafigure 0.5							    04/23/2012							       AAFIGURE(1)