Cornice: a cross platform image viewer
Version 0.3
Cornice is a cross-platform image viewer written in Python (http://www.python.org) + wxPython (http://wxpython.org) + PIL (http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil) . It doesn't pretend to be complete, fast, or even useful, but I like it and it is the viewer I use on both Linux and Windows. It has been inspired by the famous Windows-only ACDSee.
Why did I write it? Well, because I like ACDSee, but it's not free and it doesn't run on Linux, which is my main platform. There already exists an ACDsee-like viewer, GTKSee (http://www.regix.com/info/gtksee.shtml), but it is unmaintained and it lacks some features I wanted (bookmarks, a good keyboard navigation and zooming). First I tried to add such features to it, but then I decided to rewrite it from scratch, so that I could use it also on windows (and also because I had some troubles, especially when trying to port GTKSee to the gdk_pixbuf lib, and also because Python is more fun than C, and... ;-)
Features
Here are a list of the main features of Cornice:
- Fully cross-platform: it should run wherever wxPython does (tested on Linux - Kernel 2.4.20, Xfree 4.2/4.3, GTK+ 1.2.10 -, Win Me and NT 4 SP something)
- Detail and thumbnail view for images
- Image preview
- Automatic recognition of images, with a variety of formats supported
- Bookmarks
- Full-screen view
- Zooming and rotation
- Slideshow
- Good keyboard navigation (still not perfect, but this is true for all the features ;-)
- Image loading from zip archives (still limited: currently it handles only "flat" archives, i.e. without a directory structure)
Requirements
Python >= 2.2.1, wxPython >= 2.4.0.1 and PIL >= 1.2.2
Installation
Unpack the tarball, then "python cornice.py" at your shell's prompt.
Bugs and Issues
A lot, probably ;-) If you like the program and find one of them, it would be nice if you reported it.
License
GNU GPL (see license.txt)
Feedback
Always very welcome :-) You can reach me at albgrig@tiscalinet.it