# ase-utils
Encode/decode color palettes in Adobe's `.ase` format.

Liberally taken and modified from https://github.com/hughsk/adobe-swatch-exchange Because Meteor.js does not support loading github forks of npm packages.

## Usage ##
`npm install ase-utils`

### Decoding ASE Files ###
Just read in a `.ase` file and hand it over to the `decode` method:

```javascript
var ase = require('ase-utils');
var fs = require('fs');

var buffer = fs.readFileSync('./test.ase');
var output = require('./test.json');
test.deepEqual(ase.decode(buffer), output);
test.end();
```

`ase.decode` returns a JSON object representing the contents of the `.ase` file, for example:

``` json
{
  "version": "1.0",
  "groups": [],
  "colors": [{
    "name": "RGB Red",
    "model": "RGB",
    "color": [1, 0, 0],
    "type": "global"
  }, {
    "name": "RGB Yellow",
    "model": "RGB",
    "color": [1, 1, 0],
    "type": "global"
  }]
}
```

### Ecoding ASE Files ###

By providing a JSON object (see above) to the `encode` method you get a binary buffer back that represents the .ase format.

```javascript
var ase = require('ase-utils');
var fs = require('fs');

var buffer = fs.readFileSync('./test.ase');
var input = require('./test.json');
test.deepEqual(ase.encode(input), buffer);
test.end();
```

## License ##

MIT. See [LICENSE.md](http://github.com/CodeAdventure/ase-utils/blob/master/LICENSE.md) for details.