[ale] Image programs for Linux?

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Thursday 18 November 2004 01:46 pm, Jay Loden wrote:
> What's the command to invoke xv ?  I don't have any "xv" on my machine, but
> I do have imagemagick installed.  Is it maybe not included because of the
> closed source nature?
>
> (I'm running mandrake 10)

configure; make; make install?

There are binaries available, too: http://www.trilon.com/xv/downloads.html

Michael

> -Jay
>
> On Thursday 18 November 2004 01:42 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> > Jay Loden wrote:
> > > I'm a hardcore Linux user, won't be going back to using Windows ever,
> > > if I can help it, but there is ONE thing that I just haven't found for
> > > Linux that I had on Windows, and that's Irfanview.
> > >
> > > Irfanview, for those who don't know it, is a small, fast image editor
> > > and viewer for Windows.  It's tiny, and fast, yet it lets you do a
> > > whole host of image editing, like resizing, renaming, slideshow
> > > creation, more than I can even list.  Does anyone out there know of
> > > anything similar for Linux?
> > >
> > > Kuickshow at least is a fast image viewer, and lets you do an extremely
> > > limited number of things (convert an image to a new format, for
> > > example) but I need something that at least lets me do simple resize,
> > > rotate, crop, and some ehancements and preferably some filters. 
> > > (irfanview has a small set of nice filters like greyscale and whatnot,
> > > some image sharpeners, and so forth).
> > >
> > > Before someone says it, I know the GIMP can do a lot of these things,
> > > BUT, the GIMP is a lot heavier than what I want, and not the most
> > > convenient tool for the job.  It's like opening Photoshop just to
> > > resize your digital photos - overkill.
> >
> > xv
> > display which comes with imagemagick.  imagemagick has a number of other
> > tools as well.
>
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