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Letterpress

Create beautiful ASCII art Source

Description

Letterpress converts your images into a picture made up of ASCII characters. You can save the output to a file, copy it, and even change its resolution! High-res output can still be viewed comfortably by lowering the zoom factor.

Source

Project links: Links to (pages with) screenshots:

Rating

Mobile Fit: 5

Perfect - this app fits your phone screen just fine out of the box and works nicely with touch input!

Project status: mature

This project has been in development for a long time and is usually well beyond its 1.0 release. It should work fine.

Features

 Every feature of this app can be accessed via touch screen, no mouse or keyboard needed.

 This app is (according to its appstream metadata or description) intended to be compatible with mobile devices.

Packaging

Get it on Flathub!

If you're lucky*, you can install this app by just hitting this button:

Install

* You need to have an appstream:// handler, e.g., GNOME Software or KDE Discover, installed and the app needs to be available in a configured software repository, more details.

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By FreeDesktop-(Additional-)Category: GNOME GTK Graphics ImageProcessing TextTools Utility

Licensing and technical details

License: GPL-3.0-or-later Metadata: CC0-1.0

Frameworks: GTK4 libadwaita

Backend: jp2a

Programming languages: Python

Build system: meson

AppStream Metadata URL: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Letterpress/-/raw/main/data/io.gitlab.gregorni.Letterpress.metainfo.xml.in.in