[ale] Image programs for Linux?

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Thu Nov 18 09:44:07 EST 2004


On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 09:13, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 November 2004 11:33 pm, 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?
> 
> In your search, be sure to check out "The Grumpy Editor's Guide to Image 
> Viewers" from Linux Weekly News at http://lwn.net/Articles/76391/.  It's a 
> good overview of what's outthere and the weaknesses.
> 
> His end recommnedation is that xv is still the best, old and outdated as it 
> is.  It's also not Open Source, so it is hard to find on the distributions.
> 
> Michael

Another to look at is imageJ
http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/index.html
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