#printing #image #shell #bitmap #ansi #white-space #xbm

app pxbm

Tool for printing bitmap images in ANSI-based shells

1 unstable release

0.1.0 May 13, 2023

#51 in #white-space

MIT/Apache

36KB
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pxbm

pxbm is used for printing bitmap images on ANSI-based shell. It works by changing the background color (ANSI color codes) and printing " " (whitespace) to stdout.

Originally written in C.

Supported formats:

Format ASCII (plain) Binary (raw) Extension RGB input flag
X BitMap Yes No .xbm Yes
Portable BitMap Yes (P1) Yes (P4) .pbm Yes
Portable GrayMap Yes (P2) Yes (P5) .pgm No
Portable PixMap Yes (P3) Yes (P6) .pgm No

Example XBM print

Alt text

Compile

cargo build

Usage

To run:

Usage: pxbm <command> <filepath> [red] [green] [blue]

Arguments:
  <command>   [possible values: xbm, netpbm]
  <filepath>  File to print
  [red]       Red [default: 255]
  [green]     Green [default: 255]
  [blue]      Blue [default: 255]

Options:
  -h, --help     Print help
  -V, --version  Print version

Dependencies

~4–5.5MB
~97K SLoC