pxv is a terminal image viewer offering a range of colour and rendering modes.
Images can be rendered using truecolour, ANSI palettes, greyscale or ASCII characters. The software also handles animated GIFs and can retrieve an image from a URL.
The repository is now archived and read-only, so pxv remains available but is no longer under active development.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Allows the output width or number of columns to be specified.
- Allows the output height or number of rows to be specified.
- Can match output according to width.
- Can match output according to height.
- Can fit an image within the available area.
- Supports ANSI 8-colour output.
- Supports ANSI 256-colour output.
- Supports truecolour output.
- Can render images in greyscale.
- Provides a low-resolution rendering mode.
- Supports ASCII rendering.
- Allows the ASCII palette to be customised.
- Can disable the image background.
- Supports animated GIF files.
- Can display only the first frame of a GIF.
- Can display a specified frame from a GIF.
- Can use a URL instead of a local path.
Website: github.com/al1-ce/pxv
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Developer: Alisa Lain
License: MIT License
pxv is written in D. Learn D with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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