Tip

Moved to Codeberg.

Info

ttp is a simple utility to turn almost any text file into a picture.
If you convert 500.6 MB of text files into a .png, the .png will be ~500.7 MB.

How it works

Each byte is equal to a color value of a pixel.
The information is stored in a GRBA format, and if there aren't enough characters to fill up the entire image, it will make the remaining space use pixels with A value 193.

If you wanted to encode Hooray!, it would be:

(111, 72, 111, 255), (97, 114, 121, 255), (0, 33, 0, 193), (0, 0, 0, 193)
 ^    ^    ^          ^    ^    ^             ^       ^________________^
 o    H    o          a    r    y             !       |Tells decoder to|
                                                      |strip 0 bytes in|
                                                      |these pixels.   |
                                                      ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯

If we didn't specify the alpha channel as 193 on the last two pixels, there would be extra NULL bytes at the end of the text file.

TODO

• Alpha channel for NULL bytes
• TGA support
• JPG support
• Video support for large files
  • MP4 support
  • MPV support
  • MOV support
• Audio support
  • MP3 support
  • OGG support
  • WAV support