Re: xv alternatives
Hi,
I don't know if it is quite the same, but I use "display" and "convert"
that comes in the "imagemagick" package. imagemagick is free as long as
you use the libmagick4g library instead of the libmagick4g-lzw (which
comes from non-free). I didn't make a concious effort to choose the
free version so it probably is the default.
Disclaimer: I'm a geek, not a lawyer.
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 05:25:29PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> Since xv is being removed from the distribution, I would like to find a
> new image viewer to use. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find one
> that's as good as Xv. eeyes seems pretty nice, but I refuse to install
> the necessary GNOME libraries to make it work. I grabbed the source to
> see if it might be possible to build it without GNOME, but it can't be
> done.
>
> I've tried xzgv, but that doesn't seem very useful. It doesn't seem to
> be able to modify images at all, or convert between formats.
>
> The features I really want are:
> 1. Lots of easy keyboard commands (Tab & Backspace were great in XV)
> 2. Intelligent scaling (I liked the zoom maxspect feature of XV, where
> it would zoom as close as possible to the screensize without changing
> the aspect ratio).
> 3. Simple image manipulation algorithms. I especially like the "smooth"
> algorithm, which would attempt to smooth out rought edges that
> resulted from scaling an image.
> 4. Simplicity. I don't want to have to install CORBA to get an image
> viewer. I want a nice, simple image viewer. I use the GIMP, but
> that's much bigger than what I'm asking for here.
>
> So what do people here like?
>
> Thanks.
> noah
>
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Thank you,
Joe Bouchard
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