Java implementation of FIGfonts to create ascii art banners. My goals were:
- distributed as a maven dependency
- should be small
I started out from Benoît Rigaut, Juillet work found at www.rigaut.com
figlet is a command-line tool which helps you to create ascii banners like this:
_ _____ ___ ____ _ _____ _____
| | ___|_ _/ ___| | | ____|_ _|
_ | | |_ | | | _| | | _| | |
| |_| | _| | | |_| | |___| |___ | |
\___/|_| |___\____|_____|_____| |_|
Figlet has a specification which is included into the repo for easy access here
you can use it from command line or from java code
add the following maven dependency to your pom.xml
<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.lalyos</groupId>
<artifactId>jfiglet</artifactId>
<version>0.0.9</version>
</dependency>
Then one could use number of convertOneLine(...) static methods to do the magic
import com.github.lalyos.jfiglet.FigletFont;
import java.io.File;
public class App {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// using default font standard.flf, obtained from maven artifact
String asciiArt1 = FigletFont.convertOneLine("hello");
System.out.println(asciiArt1);
// using font font2.flf, located somewhere in classpath under path /flf/font2.flf
String asciiArt2 = FigletFont.convertOneLine(FigletFont.class.getResourceAsStream("/flf/font2.flf"), "hello");
System.out.println(asciiArt2);
asciiArt2 = FigletFont.convertOneLine("classpath:/flf/font2.flf", "hello");
System.out.println(asciiArt2);
// using font font3.flf, located in file system under path /opt/font3.flf
String asciiArt3 = FigletFont.convertOneLine(new File("/opt/font3.flf"), "hello");
System.out.println(asciiArt3);
asciiArt3 = FigletFont.convertOneLine("/opt/font3.flf", "hello");
System.out.println(asciiArt3);
// using font font4.flf, from www
String asciiArt4 = FigletFont.convertOneLine("http://myhost.com/font4.flf", "hello");
System.out.println(asciiArt4);
}
}
You can use the jar from the central repo, or use the latest development version from sourcecode;
Usage: java -jar jfiglet.jar [-f FLF] MESSAGE
Prints MESSAGE to stdout as ASCII art using Figlet font
Example: java -jar jfiglet.jar -f "/opt/myfont.flf" "Hello World"
Figlet font:
-f FLF is font file location within file system, java classpath or www.
When FLF starts with `http://'|`https://' file will be fetched from WWW,
if FLF starts from `classpath:' then it will be looked for in JRE classpath,
otherwise FLF if path to file in file system
git clone [email protected]:lalyos/jfiglet.git
cd jfiglet
mvn exec:java -Dexec.arguments="jfiglet rulez"
curl -o jfiglet.jar https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/github/lalyos/jfiglet/0.0.9/jfiglet-0.0.9.jar
java -jar jfiglet.jar "text to convert"
First I wrapped http://artii.herokuapp.com/ which is based on the artii gem I found 2 java implementations:
- http://www.jave.de/eclipse/figlet/index.html its not just FIGlet its much more, includes swing editor and so ...
- http://www.rigaut.com/benoit/CERN/FigletJava/ it contains a single class implementation, so i choose this one.
- vertical smush-ing
- add more fonts: first i wanted to keep it small, but want to deliver a couple of fonts included in the jar, or maybe as a separate maven dependency
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