Re: Problems building xv

[Barry Mathieu <barkatbarry@mindspring.com>]

On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 10:13:07PM -0500, stan (stanb@awod.com) wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 04:34:33PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > >>"Stan" == Stan Brown <stanb@awod.com> writes:
> > 
> > 
> > 	Why is that? There are a number of free image display and
> >  conversion tools in Debian already. 
> 
> I'd be happy to hear sugestions. Requiremnets are.
> 
> 1. Interactive, load -> display -> save cycle/
> 2. Ability to hanle large qty of files (thousands) without core dumpimg.
> 
> I've looked at several, and none of them seem to offer the ease of use, and
> power of xv. I do not edit the images, just sort through large quantitys,
> sorting them inot various directories.

Have you tried ImageMagick?

There is interactive menu capability and you can display thumbnail views
of selected images (by directory & extension, for example).

I haven't handled 1000's but many 100's of images without a core dump.

If you have ImageMagick loaded, you can start the program by:

display {filename}

Once the image appears, you can open the interactive menu with a first
position mouse click (typically, left mouse key).

HTH
Barry Mathieu