./graphics/libcaca, Graphics library that outputs text instead of pixels, in colour

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Branch: pkgsrc-2007Q2, Version: 0.9nb1, Package name: libcaca-0.9nb1, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

The libcaca library is a graphics library that outputs text instead
of pixels, so that it can work on older video cards or text terminals.
It is not unlike the famous AAlib library. libcaca needs a terminal
to work, thus it should work on all Unix systems (including Mac OS
X) using either the slang library or the ncurses library.

The differences with AAlib are the following:

* 16 available colours for character output (256 colour pairs)
* dithering of colour images
* basic sprite primitives

But libcaca also has the following limitations:

* no support for brightness, contrast, gamma
* unefficient character-choosing algorithms
* no alternate fonts
* no raw keyboard support
* no custom output drivers a la AA-on-X



Package options: ncurses

Master sites:

SHA1: 55428c11427e8a411062a2699149f912b251d7a6
RMD160: 433216f6446d397d4a5f1894f08c2715b94f120d
Filesize: 167.826 KB

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