araste 1.2.1

Convert persian text to ascii art

Araste

making ascii-art out of Persian/Arabic text

Similar to the figlet and toilet tools, but for Persian and Arabic texts.

usage:

araste <your text>

use -f switch to choose font

araste 'your persian/arabic text' -f 'fontpath or fontname'

to get a list of installed fonts:

araste --list

for now, there are a few fonts that you can use:

aipara
aipara_mini
zivar
nima

it can also read text from stdin. so you can do something like this:

echo 'آراسته' | araste

to get help:

araste -h

an output with the default font (aipara):

                                      ██████
        ████                ██        ██
  ████                      ██          ██
  ████    ██    ██  ██  ██  ██    ██    ██
    ██████████████████████  ██    ██    ██
                                  ██
                                ██

Install and Usage

for installing you only need to execute following command.

pip install araste

2. or to build it yourself:

git clone 'https://github.com/ekm507/araste/'
cd araste
python3 setup.py bdist_wheel
pip install ./dist/araste-1.2-py3-none-any.whl

Instaling Fonts

For Installing Fonts You Can Use araste-get

araste-get FontName

Unistall

to uninstall araste, simply use pip.

pip uninstall araste

Creating New Fonts!

To get additional fonts for araste or to create your own custom fonts, use tools and manuals in araste-fonts repo.

Todos

Todos have been moved to a separate file. TODOS