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old, but good: XV

old, but good: XV

Posted Jul 18, 2003 2:05 UTC (Fri) by roelofs (subscriber, #2599)
Parent article: Graphics programs for Linux

While it's not an editor, not free, and hasn't (really) been updated since 1994--although quite a number of patches have been contributed--John Bradley's XV is still an outstanding and very polished graphics program (viewer/converter) with lots of image-manipulation capabilities. Despite its shareware status, it has always come with source code and is easy to modify.

And since someone mentioned GPaint, I'll point out that XPaint also still exists and can be useful for simple tasks, although it has a few drawbacks. It's pretty lightweight and doesn't have many dependencies beyond various image-format libraries.

Greg


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