Questions tagged [image-viewer]
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Command line SVG and image file viewer in Linux?
Is there any command line (pipeable) graph viewer for SVG, JPG, and PNG images?
I'm particularly looking for a way to pipe the graphs/images to the program, instead of using files, so there must be an option to specify the file…
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Is there an image viewer that takes images on STDIN?
I'm looking for an image viewer that takes data on stdin and can be run like:
cat image.png | imageviewer
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What software works well for viewing massive TIFF images on Windows 7?
Today I saw an article about a half-gig, 24000 square-pixel high-res composite image of the moon.
(This is a much smaller version of the image)
I find astronomy interesting, so I thought I'd download it and take a look. With 4GB of RAM and an i5…
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White color is not white in Windows Picture Viewer
Recently bought new monitor. And connected it with HDMI. No new monitor extends my laptops in-built monitor. There is 1 problem with white color (all other colors are awesome)
This is how Windows 7 Picture viewer and Windows Live Photo Viewer shows…
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Viewer for huge images under linux (>100 MP color images)
I have a lot of 50-100 MP colour images that I would like to view on linux.
For example, 10000x17000 size is typical, but most image viewers will fail with out-of-memory.
The file format is png or jpg.
What I want is the ability to view such image…
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Is there a Linux image viewer that will show the desktop through transparent images?
I'd like to load a transparent png and have all parts that are transparent show the desktop or underlying windows- is there a Linux image viewer that does this? I'm using Ubuntu and Gnome.
I'm not asking the same as question as this:
Linux: image…
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Image viewer without large window borders
I am looking for an image viewer software without very large window borders.
I don't need any type of toolbar, just a simple image viewer.
It would also be fine if there is no top bar to close, minimize or maximize window.
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How to display a picture and print pixel coordinates when I click?
When using ImageMagick or similar command line tools it can be useful to know coordinates of some points in the image.
How to display an image (with panning and zooming) and print coordinates of pixels when I click at them?
Nearest thing I found is…
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Read-only image viewer for kids?
I'd like to allow my kids to look through our digital archive of home photos and videos without the possibility of them deleting or changing anything.
Any suggestions for either software that does this (preferred) or a way to set up a folder so…
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How to compare multiple photos quickly
Usually, I take always 2-4 photos in a row instead of one - then try to pick the best one. But once the differences are very small, it's hard to tell which photo is better by simple looping using Irfan View.
Is there a better tool or a trick, to…
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Show slideshow with pictures and videos
I'm mostly a Linux guy but I don't think the software I'm looking for is available in Linux so I ask this presumable easy question for those of you that knows Windows.
The thing I want to do is to just take a SD-card from a camera, pop it into the…
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How to quickly view huge PNG images in OS X?
I need to view and zoom into selected parts of PNG images around 10,000x10,000px, ~10MB.
When I open these images with Preview, it takes over a minute to load and then is very slow to show the image in the proper resolution when zooming in.
Is there…
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XnView How to change file read-in format?
I have a "raw file" (not unprocessed image data, but raw heightmap data from a game's map editor saved as Photoshop RAW) and it looks like XnView might be able to open it.
It sees the properties as 513x513 8-bit RGB when in reality it is a 513x513…
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Fastest light-weight image viewer over forwarded x11 session (linux)
I have a slow network connection over which I'm forwarding x11 over ssh.
I want to view images on the remote host (Ubuntu) quickly and efficiently.
I'm looking for an image viewer that will take into account the image viewer window's resolution and…
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Read-only image viewers for photography clients with starring or rating
The Best image viewers for windows can crop, rotate, convert, sharpen, etc. the images. Here I would like suggestions for read-only viewers.
I am a photographer and would run this on a laptop for clients to browse, examine, and review the album…
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