The Grumpy Editor's Guide to Image Viewers [LWN.net]

The Grumpy Editor's Guide to Image Viewers

Posted Mar 24, 2004 3:30 UTC (Wed) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to Image Viewers by bhepple
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to Image Viewers

I was going to mention xzgv myself. Frankly, I think it's the best one around. Simple, efficient, does all the popular image formats, and doesn't get in the way visually.

Try it out, seriously. It's a tiny download, about 290 kilobytes of source. And it works.

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The Grumpy Editor's Guide to Image Viewers

Posted Mar 24, 2004 11:43 UTC (Wed) by dholland (guest, #14680) [Link] (2 responses)

xzgv looks good... is it possible to configure it so the viewer window size follows the image size (like xv and display do)? I couldn't see anything in the manual page.

The Grumpy Editor's Guide to Image Viewers

Posted Mar 24, 2004 14:41 UTC (Wed) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link] (1 responses)

XZGV is designed to be a full-screen image viewer, but you can specify that (for example) the zoom feature is only to shrink pictures, not grow them.

Also, the info pages are what you should be reading, not man. :-)

Info - printing, etc.

Posted Apr 7, 2004 20:34 UTC (Wed) by QuisUtDeus (guest, #14854) [Link]

A question I haven't found an answer for is: How do I take an info page and make it printable? "man -t command" is easy. Is there something for info pages? Thanks.