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The Yet Another NFO Viewer or simply YaNvi project is intended to be a small, light and hopefully fast tool to properly view ASCII artwork files in DOS encoding (with extensions NFO, ASC and DIZ) that I created for myself and felt like sharing with the Mac community, as using the native TextEdit.app was simply not good enough, since it doesn't always auto-detect the encoding and the user is forced to set it manually.
It was originally planned to be a continuation/update on the "NFO Viewer" project by Kris Gybels and his open-source code repository over at SourceForge.net for
It was originally planned to be a continuation/update on the "NFO Viewer" project by Kris Gybels and his open-source code repository over at SourceForge.net for
What's New
Version 1.0.2:
- Improved application icons (but did not spend too much time doing it!);
- Implemented proper auto-window resize according to the ASCII art document, not constrained to the (typical) 80 characters;
- Unlocked manual resize of window, although not displaying resize handle due to the use of mini-scroll bars (it was ugly to show it).
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
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| Downloads:2,207 |
| Version Downloads:1,763 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Image Editing |
| License:Free |
| Date:08 Aug 2011 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price:Free |
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The Yet Another NFO Viewer or simply YaNvi project is intended to be a small, light and hopefully fast tool to properly view ASCII artwork files in DOS encoding (with extensions NFO, ASC and DIZ) that I created for myself and felt like sharing with the Mac community, as using the native TextEdit.app was simply not good enough, since it doesn't always auto-detect the encoding and the user is forced to set it manually.
It was originally planned to be a continuation/update on the "NFO Viewer" project by Kris Gybels and his open-source code repository over at SourceForge.net for modern, larger desktop resolutions. As this original project looked like it was compiled on an older Xcode and Mac OS X setup, I was forced to completely re-write it from scratch on Mac OS X 10.6 using Xcode 3.2 so that I would be able to also produce a 64-bit binary.
Therefore, due to my current Mac environment, this tool is intended for Intel-based Macs only, running on the Mac OS X 10.6 operating system.
The included (and necessary) resource ProFontWindows is an original bitmap font created by Tobias Jung and then kindly converted to Windows TrueType format by Mike Smith. This font was also used in "NFO Viewer" by Kris Gybels, which is the most convenient free font for ASCII art found and available, so far.
For bugs, omissions and/or suggestions you are welcome to contact me by e-mail but I must warn you in advance that development of this tool will most probably be slow, as my free time is nowadays scarce...
It was originally planned to be a continuation/update on the "NFO Viewer" project by Kris Gybels and his open-source code repository over at SourceForge.net for modern, larger desktop resolutions. As this original project looked like it was compiled on an older Xcode and Mac OS X setup, I was forced to completely re-write it from scratch on Mac OS X 10.6 using Xcode 3.2 so that I would be able to also produce a 64-bit binary.
Therefore, due to my current Mac environment, this tool is intended for Intel-based Macs only, running on the Mac OS X 10.6 operating system.
The included (and necessary) resource ProFontWindows is an original bitmap font created by Tobias Jung and then kindly converted to Windows TrueType format by Mike Smith. This font was also used in "NFO Viewer" by Kris Gybels, which is the most convenient free font for ASCII art found and available, so far.
For bugs, omissions and/or suggestions you are welcome to contact me by e-mail but I must warn you in advance that development of this tool will most probably be slow, as my free time is nowadays scarce...
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hawanord reviewed on 05 Mar 2012
Also, I'd really love to see customizable color schemes (like white on black) and adjustable font sizes.
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Davidravenmoon reviewed on 07 Aug 2011
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Martin reviewed on 07 Aug 2011
In the original NFOViewer, you could adjust the window with and therefore the line width which caused those .nfo files to be displayed correctly.
Also the Icon of the NFOViewer is much nicer. Who actually wants a Windows XP or Linux window frame in an icon for a Mac app?
Aside from those points, I didn’t have any problems or stability issues.
Thanks to developer for bringing this to Mac OS but there is room for some improvements.
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I will implement the horizontally auto-resizing of the window in the next build, hopefully it will properly display the files you tried to view. I will also unlock the "resizing" handle of the window, just in case.
If you have a specific website with ASCII art that I can test, please feel free to let me know.
In the next builds I anticipate a Preferences window with some customization of the output (bg/fg colors, horizontal screen placement, etc.).
Thanks.
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Basically, since the Mac was invented, such files I have always read by dragging them to TextEdit (or before that, TeachText). I even do this on Windows with WordPad. And if you really want to make it easier, just associate ".nfo" with TextEdit (Get Info | Open With | Change All)
If it does anything fantastic, you need to mention that in the description.
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I'll give this a try though and see if they look different.
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Sneferu rated on 06 Aug 2011