JavE
JavE (Java Ascii Versatile Editor) is a GUI tool written in Java for drawing ASCII art.
JMOV (JavE movie) is a plain text file format used by the JavE editor for ASCII animations.
Features
- Freehand painting by mouse
- FIGlet support â 195 fonts included
- GIF/JPEG/BMP to ASCII conversion with multiple options
- Crash recovery â edited documents can be recovered by JavE when starting the next time
- Free shape selection tool
- Easy textbox editing (borders, move, rescale)
- Extendable clip art library
- Export for multiple purposes (HTML, Java/C++/C/... comment)
- move/copy/mirror/flip/rot13/...
- And many more.
JavE may also be used to create ASCII animations, commonly referred to as ASCIIMations. These animations are saved in the JMOV format. JavE can also export these to other formats, such as animated GIF, JavaScript, or plain text files.
History
- November 1, 2000: Version 0.1beta released
- January 18, 2001: Version 0.2beta released
- February 2, 2001: Version 0.3beta released
- March 9, 2001: Version 0.5beta released (0.4 was a non official release)
- March 18, 2001: Version 0.6beta released
- April 3, 2001: Version 0.7beta released
- April 6, 2001: Version 0.8beta released
- April 13, 2001: Version 0.9beta released
- April 18, 2001: Version 0.91beta released
- June 8, 2001: Version 1.0beta released
- July 12, 2001: Version 1.1 released
- July 15, 2001: bugfix Version 1.1a released
- October 14, 2001: Version 2.0 released
- December 8, 2001: Version 3.0 released
- March 19, 2002: Version 4.0 released
- June 14, 2002: Version 5.0 released
- February 6, 2005: 6.0 Milestone 1 released
- February 13, 2005: 6.0 Milestone 2 released
- March 5, 2005: 6.0 Milestone 3 released
- April 23, 2005: 6.0 Milestone 4 released
- May 8, 2005: 6.0 Milestone 5 released
- June 19, 2005: 6.0 Milestone 6 released
- December 4, 2005: 6.0 Milestone 7 released
See also
- ANSI art
- List of text editors (ASCII art section)