Ascii to SVG
Dev tools
diagram converter
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
5 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 10 critical, out of 35 comments about the project. Thread score -0.10.
Idea: 3 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 4 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Looks great and is a useful complement to ASCII diagram tools
From 3 comments
Looks good. I hope it's compatible with the emacs Artist package. https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ArtistMode
mungoman2 on HNGreat! Perfect complement for http://asciiflow.com
bholdr on HNThis is actually really awesome. Good job!
EJTH on HN
Objections
Generated SVG is bloated, with one element per ASCII character
From 2 comments
It looks nice but the SVG generated seems incredibly big. Every ascii characters seems to be replaced by one svg element. (You can have a hint at this behaviour because some…
Rexxar on HNI made an ascii diagram a long while back for my uri parser (https://bitbucket.org/russellballestrini/miniuri/src) The SVG version looks amazing! Great work! Is there any way to…
foxhop on HN
Shapes are rendered as many lines rather than recognised shapes
From 1 comment
Cool! It seems to not recognize shapes and instead renders them using a bunch of lines, though (just like in the ASCII version). This is visible, at least in Safari 10.
killercup on HN
C++ rendered as C in one chart
From 1 comment
In the "Safety-Control" chart, C++ is turned into C. That seems like fairly major problem
zokier on HN
Pixel artifacts on non-HiDPI displays
From 2 comments
``` How can you possibly see that? ``` Short answer : I'm writing a drawing software and I've become pixel sensitive. Technical answer : you are creating 1 pixel wide…
Rexxar on HN> using a retina display. ^^^ SO IMPORTANT. I returned to working with SVG seriously for a project last year, and was bitten by pixel-alignment rendering behavior along these…
saidajigumi on HN
Requests
Add an optimizer to reduce SVG elements into paths
From 2 comments
Yep, I want to add an optimizer to reduce the svg elements into paths and into simplest form possible, when I have more time.
ivanceras on HN``` because some pixel are "more black" when an area is covered by two SVG elements ``` How can you possibly see that? This definitely needs a lot of more work on adding…
ivanceras on HN
Add a download or export option
From 3 comments
Wow, it's great! It'd be cool to have some kind of export option, I thought right-clicking it would make it but it doesn't. BTW, a related project of mine to create mind maps in…
omegote on HNI made an ascii diagram a long while back for my uri parser (https://bitbucket.org/russellballestrini/miniuri/src) The SVG version looks amazing! Great work! Is there any way to…
foxhop on HNI'm not looking for it to be optimized just easier to download and save the result. Great work!
foxhop on HN
Support OS X overtype and draggable divider
From 1 comment
Small challenge: Add overtype for OS X users. Also make the divider draggable. Nice work!
xixixao on HN
Questions
Will this become part of Markdown?
From 1 comment
Will something like this become part of Markdown?
amelius on HN
Is it compatible with Emacs Artist mode?
From 1 comment
Looks good. I hope it's compatible with the emacs Artist package. https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ArtistMode
mungoman2 on HN
Alternatives named
ditaa
From 2 comments
This reminds me of Ditaa[1]. Org-mode offers support for it, so you can basically draw diagrams with Artist Mode and have org-babel convert them for you[2]. [1]…
dangom on HNReminds me of ditaa which is also pretty awesome. I even use it in an (internal) production tooo to generate a manual.
wlievens on HN
asciiflow
From 1 comment
Great! Perfect complement for http://asciiflow.com
bholdr on HN
Monodraw
From 1 comment
Shameless plug: If you're on a Mac and want an app to create those ASCII diagrams, check out Monodraw [1]. I've just released an update [2, 3] which allows you to define to…
milen on HN
asciidiagram
From 1 comment
Or asciidiagram ( https://github.com/Twinside/asciidiagram ), clearly inspired by ditaa
JumboCopter on HN
svgo
From 1 comment
Would this https://github.com/svg/svgo help?
akie on HN