PabloDraw is an Ansi/Ascii text and RIPscrip vector graphic art editor/viewer with multi-user capabilities.

PabloDraw uses the awesome Eto.Forms cross-platform framework to provide native UI for Windows, OS X, and Linux.

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New in version 3.2

Command line utility for conversion & headless server

Admin password option for server

Numbered file backups (File->Enable Backups)

Proper dos/legacy aspect ratio for all fonts (8×14/8×19 fonts)

Sauce 0.5 support which includes aspect, 9px, and font settings

7Zip archive support

General performance improvements and fixes

Fixed: Loading PETSCII (seq) files

Fixed: Editing as xbin or other formats

Fixed: Mouse commands past 2048 in windows

Experimental WPF mode for 10k line editing on windows (“–platform wpf” as a parameter)

Screenshots

RIPscrip Editing! Windows Linux Chat with friends Live preview while editing

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Features

Text Formats: ANSI, ANSI/24, ASCII, ADF, Avatar, BIN, CG, IDF, Tundra, CtrlA, XBIN, Animated ANSI

Vector Formats: RIPscrip

Browse inside ZIP, RAR, and 7z archives without extracting

Raster Formats (viewing only): JPEG, GIF, PNG

Draw ANSI and ASCII with your mouse or keyboard

Convert any format to an image for easy sharing

Multi-user networking to draw and chat together

Watch animated ANSI and RIP

Baud rate emulation

Browse the sixteencolors.com archive of art

DOS fonts for most languages/code pages

Amiga & 9px fonts

Legacy aspect emulation

Color & character set editors

Sauce 0.5 editor for metadata

Requirements

Linux : Mono 2.10 and gtk-sharp 2

: Mono 2.10 and gtk-sharp 2 Windows : .NET 4.0 (installer will install this if needed)

: .NET 4.0 (installer will install this if needed) OS X: 10.6 Snow Leopard (or greater)

Feedback

Submit bugs or questions on the support forums

Join the discussion in #ansi on efnet irc

Additional Notes

To run on linux, execute “mono PabloDraw.exe” from terminal. Some distros (e.g. ubuntu) will let you double click on the PabloDraw.exe file from Nautilus File Manager once mono is installed.

Ubuntu Users

Ubuntu 11.04 or earlier can use this script to install mono 2.10

Ubuntu 11.10 comes with mono 2.10 and should run out of the box

Ubuntu 12.04+ users should install “gtk-sharp2” and “mono-complete” packages

Mac OS X Users

To use the F1, F2, etc keys on OS X without having to press the FN key, change the setting in System Preferences->Keyboard->Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys

PabloDraw in Action

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Links

Sixteen Colors Ansi/Ascii/Rip archive of all art packs dating back from 1990 to today. BBS List List of active Telnet Bulliten Board Systems Pharcyde Scene related site/forums Thuglife.org Ascii-focused forums deviantART deviantART is the premiere global interaction and communication platform for the artistic lifestyle BBS Documentary A mini-series of 8 episodes about the history of the BBS Art scene history An Abbreviated History of the Underground Computer Art Scene