Svgbob – convert ASCII diagrams to SVG, now with styling support

https://ivanceras.github.io/svgbob-editor/

by ivanceras • 6 years ago

161 33 6 years ago

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flying_sheep• 6 years ago

Try this

_______

< Meow >

-------

        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

jagged-chisel• 6 years ago

https://imgur.com/a/Og0vYAv

vihren• 6 years ago

That seems pretty great, but I always have the problem of creating the ASCII art in the first place. Is there a tool to help with that?

humblebee• 6 years ago

For general chart drawing (box, lines, arrows, text) I've used asciiflow[0] a few times.

[0] http://asciiflow.com/

KingOfCoders• 6 years ago

I can second that. It also supports import which I then use to update documentation.

jsrjenkins• 6 years ago

The best I've found is emacs picture-mode.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ba...

Here is a good summary:

http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_ascii_diagram.html

arminiusreturns• 6 years ago

I love how after all these years I can still find out random new things about emacs I didn't know. It's a treasure trove of capabilities.

inferiorhuman3• 6 years ago

I really liked monodraw but am reluctant to pay for a license now that it's more or less been abandoned. I still like it, but only bought a copy for work at megacorp and foolishly didn't put it in my name.

patrec2• 6 years ago

I'm not sure I understand this attitude. It's a pitty it failed commercially. But it's a great app that only costs a tenner and works well (probably way better than any available alternative). And it can "save" as text, so it's not like you're going to lose all your work.

Surely, a good investment for anyone above minimum wage who does ascii art periodically on a mac?

dewey• 6 years ago

What makes you think it's abandoned? The author is active on Twitter, the last update for dark mode was in May 2019 and I don't see any show stopper bugs or crashes on Catalina. Small utilities like this don't need an update every month. I bought it a while ago because

1) It's very cheap and a great show case for a small niche Mac app that's both beautiful and works well

2) The two times per year I use it, it's already worth it and fun to play around with.

https://blog.helftone.com

mbar842• 6 years ago

Shameless plug: https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/asciigrid/

patrec2• 6 years ago

If you're on a mac, try monodraw. It's discontinued, but it's cheap and works great (it's basically a full featured diagramming app – with text output).

vanderZwan• 6 years ago

The website itself is an interactive editor, for what that's worth

_frkl2• 6 years ago

This is pretty impressive. Are there builds for a cli?

inferiorhuman3• 6 years ago

Well the project's workspace defines svgbob and svgbob_cli crates so probably.

_frkl2• 6 years ago

yes, ive seen that. was just wondering whether/where there are prebuilt binaries i can download directly

andybak• 6 years ago

Sometimes works with https://www.asciiart.eu

For example: https://www.asciiart.eu/cartoons/felix-the-cat

kstenerud• 6 years ago

This is cool, except the alignment is wrong in almost all diagrams. Labels are off center, things overlap, etc. If that were fixed, it would be very nice and usable.

virtualritz• 6 years ago

Yes, this is indeed the only reason I couldn't use this otherwise great tool yet.

See my comment here: https://github.com/ivanceras/svgbob/issues/11#issuecomment-5...

2sk212• 6 years ago

What a great idea! I have been using a text to UML sequence diagram tool and this seems to be very much along the same lines.

joefarish• 6 years ago

What is the name of the tool?

shock• 6 years ago

PlantUML, probably.

2sk212• 6 years ago

Its a Mac app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sequence-diagram/id1195426709?...

mbar842• 6 years ago

I recently wrote an editor for this:

https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/asciigrid/

michael-ax• 6 years ago

excellent! created something sensible and relevant just doing what seemed obvious.

djmips• 6 years ago

Nice. I'd like the other direction. SVG -> ASCII

catalogia• 6 years ago

You could rasterize the SVG with imagemagick then use aalib to create ascii art from that. However the quality of the result would doubtlessly depend on the nature of the SVG in question.

ivanceras• 6 years ago

with your support and enough given time, this can be done.

wolfgangK• 6 years ago

Nice ! Now I just need to be able to have org mode source blocks for that .

dpfu• 6 years ago

Also check out Markdeep, which provides this (and a whole lot more) via JS: http://casual-effects.com/markdeep/#features

kats• 6 years ago

Seriously, that is very cool! I wonder how PlantUML diagrams would look in Svgbob or Markdeep, if they were imported from text.

dang• 6 years ago

A thread from 9 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19857349

Also 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14422777

Svgbob – convert ASCII diagrams to SVG, now with styling support

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