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Previewing your own generated stills in a terminal with Chafa: a documentation reading
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What this guide covers
For people who want to look at a generated image from a terminal or agent session. It gives a checklist drawn from Chafa's README, manual source and build pages covering output families, sizing, colour, dithering and animation. Based on the documentation only; nothing was installed or run.
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Guide title
Previewing your own generated stills in a terminal with Chafa: a documentation reading
Coverage
For people who want to look at a generated image from a terminal or agent session. It gives a checklist drawn from Chafa's README, manual source and build pages covering output families, sizing, colour, dithering and animation. Based on the documentation only; nothing was installed or run.
Useful starting points
- Chafa's manual source says the output format defaults to a pixel format if the terminal supports one and falls back to symbol art otherwise, so check what your terminal actually shows.
- The exit status separates partial failure from complete failure, which helps when previewing a batch of files in a script.
- If the picture has transparent areas, set the background colour and transparency threshold deliberately rather than relying on defaults.
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