PikView - a modern image viewer with some cool features
NOTE: The name of the executable has changed from "pikview" to "pv" as of version 0.9.1 (see http://pikview.sourceforge.net/)
Homepage and download at: http://pikview.sourceforge.net/
PikView is an image viewer which uses the KDE libraries
Features
- PikView can read the following image types: png, jpeg, tiff, gif, netpbm (and via the ImageMagick library - eps, pict, dcx, pcx, mif, bmp, viff, pnm)
- Fast image display: an asynchronous image loader preloads images before they are required.
- Image zooming with out extreme memory usage
- Sophisticated thumbnail management
- Thumbnails cached in database files
- Command-line thumbnail creation
- Highspeed JPEG thumbnail creation
- Rapid Filing of image files: images can be filed into directories by user definable shortcuts
- Fullscreen mode
- Printing
- Slideshow mode
- Efficient, flicker free repainting
- Panning via mouse and keyboard.
Platforms
PikView compiles correctly on the latest versions of: redhat, caldera, mandrake, slackware and suse. It should be easy to port to any platform which supports KDE.
Compile - Install
PikView requires the following libraries to be installed:
kde libaries, pthreads, gdbm, ImageMagick(optional)
If you don't have ImageMagick installed you lose support for several image formats. If you're compiling you own vesion do the following:
- Unpack the tar archive and change to the pikview directory Then type,
./configure
make
su
make install
If you're a tcsh user type: rehash
That's it. Try it out by typing:
pv
Help
PikView has an html help file (press F1) which details most of its features and accelerator keys. Unfortunately it is in english only so non-english speakers may need to file and open this file manually. Usually:
kdehelp $KDEDIR/doc/kde/HTML/en/pikview/index.html or
kdehelp $KDEDIR/share/doc/HTML/en/pikview/index.html
Problems
If configure barfs check you have the correct libraries installed. The major linux distributions all carry these libraries. Otherwise go to
http://pikview.sourceforge.net/
and checkout the FAQ and Bugs sections.
Development
If you would like to contribute to PikView please let me know.
Cheers,
Andrew
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Andrew Richards <ajr@users.sourceforge.net>