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hasanghaforian
Asked: 2020-07-15 02:26:32 +0800 CST

Offline Ascii art editor

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I use Ubuntu 16.04 and do not look for something like Graph_Easy which parses input, instead I look for some offline, free, WYSIWYG software that does tasks like what asciiflow does. For example these features are necessary:

  • drawing multiple type of shapes (lines, arrows, rectangles) by dragging
  • changing zoom level of page for drawing more longer/wider graphs
  • typing text

asciiflow provides a mean for resizing shapes, which is not necessary for me. Also it is better to be able to draw other shapes like circle. An open source software is appropriated.

software-recommendation ascii-art

2 Answers

  1. For almost real-time purposes (WYSIWYG) the best method I know is to use G'MIC plugin for GIMP or Krita.You can install by running this:

    sudo apt install gimp-gmic

    Then in the GIMP window go to Filters->G'MIC.Then a window should pop up with almost 480 filters.Expand the Arrays & tiles and click on Ascii art.Then you should have something like this :

    enter image description here

    Draw in the canvas and then press the Update button.

    If you want to get a output of it in a text file , then check the Output ascii file checkbox and after finishing your task press Apply :

    enter image description here

    And of course there are more options like setting the charset(e.g uppercase letters , math symbols) , synthesis scale , Gamma correction and so on.

    Hope it helps.

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  2. Best Answer

    It seems that the asciiflow provided a tool which can be launched locally. See the installation section of GitHub page.

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