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ceremcem
ceremcem

Reputation: 4360

how do I save asciio drawings in a format which is suitable for editing later?

I'm using asciio for creating graphics to use in documentation blocks of my source codes.

But the problem is, when I want to change just a little bit of my drawings, I have to draw whole thing from the beginning because when I save the file, it "renders" the drawing just like a raster image editor renders image in png format, so there is no going back to the "project".

It's something like I draw something in Autocad and instead of saving file in dxf format, it only saves the screenshot.

There should be a solution for this, for example I might save the memory contents to a file in order to retrieve the "project".

Is there any easier way to save the drawing something like dxf format?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 788

Answers (2)

Nadim Khemir
Nadim Khemir

Reputation: 67

I'm the author of Asciio.

  • Asciio saves in multiple formats, it's in the documentation.

  • There is a native format, a format that let's you re-open the file and editing; it doesn't have a special extension, any extension that's not reserved is native format.

  • Special extensions include ".txt" in that case you get a text file containing the rendering of what you see in asciio. There's also png and svg.

  • You can also copy the text while in asciio and paste it in another application.

Upvotes: 1

Nadim Khemir
Nadim Khemir

Reputation: 67

open/save/save as ... save in the native format, just put "asciio" as a file extension, you can use other extensions as long as it's not one reserved by the exporters (read below)

if you want a text file, IE: some bare ascii codes to put in another text file, save the file with a .txt extension. Yes it's the extension that decides how to export it (and it's clearly stated in the documentation).

for the problem you have, editing, you will have to save a file in the native format, when you want to modify the text file where you have pasted the ascii rendering, you need to delete the old one, edit the file you have saved, save it in native format (for future usage, export it as a .txt (or select and copy to the clipboard) and then insert that in your text file.

it should be pretty easy to write a vim macro that does that given you have the name of the asciio file and the height of the text you inserted (or a tag).

Upvotes: -1

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