txttobitmap

Simple script that converts given file to a bitmap.

The project emerged as a result of wondering "How to compress long text into a form that does not look scary for a human being?". While the generated images are obviously useless, it's still fun to play around with them.

Requirements

• Python 3.2+

Installation

pip install txttobitmap

Usage

txttobitmap --mode {palette,grayscale} input output

• mode - one of the values:
  • palette - use 16 color palette (see: Windows 16-color palette on Wikipedia) and represent each byte as two pixels
  • grayscale - represent each byte as grayscale pixel
• input - input file to convert
• output - output file to save the bitmap as