Installation¶

Run the following commands:

sudo apt-get install gcc python-imaging python-setuptools
sudo easy_install -U fabulous

Command Line Interface¶

If you’re not a Python programmer, you can use fabulous on the command
line to accomplish certain tasks. When printing images or fancy text,
the image will automatically be resized to fit inside your terminal.

Print an image:

python -m fabulous.image lolcat.png

Save image to a file: (perhaps to include in your /etc/motd)

python -m fabulous.image lolcat.png >lolcat.ansi.txt

Print fancy text:

python -m fabulous.text hello kitty
python -m fabulous.text --skew=4 --shadow hello kitty
python -m fabulous.text --help