jfiglet

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

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

Usage

you can use it from command line or from java code

Maven dependency

add the following maven dependency to your pom.xml

<dependency>
	<groupId>com.github.lalyos</groupId>
	<artifactId>jfiglet</artifactId>
	<version>0.0.8</version>
</dependency>

Usage - code

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);                
  }
}

Usage - command line

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

from source

git clone git@github.com:lalyos/jfiglet.git
cd jfiglet
mvn exec:java -Dexec.arguments="jfiglet rulez"

from maven central

curl -o jfiglet.jar http://central.maven.org/maven2/com/github/lalyos/jfiglet/0.0.8/jfiglet-0.0.8.jar
java -jar jfiglet.jar "text to convert"

Related projects

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.

Todo

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