technicism / charaster

Character raster based editor, useful for ASCII art and diagrams

Charaster

A browser based drawing program that rasters characters instead of single pixels, to support the creation of text based diagrams and artwork (e.g. ANSI and ASCII art). Charaster can be used online from GitHub pages or offline by downloading the source and opening index.html. For more information about the development progress of this application and how to use it visit the wiki.

The above screenshot includes ASCII art from the cowsay and sl commands. Charaster can export the drawing to be rendered inside a terminal by using the example Bash command of echo -e "$(cat charaster.sh)".

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

charaster's Issues

Copy/paste support

First off, this is super cool! I'm currently writing some custom presentation software that's going to be running entirely in the terminal for a talk about terminfo, ncurses and the history of terminals, and I'm excited to use Charaster to author some of my slides.

One thing that would be super handy would be the ability to paste in chunks of plain text, e.g. figlets. I can hack around this for now by saving the data as a .txt file and using the "load" feature, but it would be neat to be able to Cmd+V and paste the text straight into the editor!

Thanks again for making this :)