[geeks] Quick Photo Manipulation Program

Dave Fischer dave at cca.org
Mon Feb 25 01:37:28 CST 2008


alaric at metrocast.net writes:

>You could try xv, which will do all of those, though it doesn't scale 
>images as cleanly as Gimp.

If you open an image in xv that's too large to view, it scales
it down, and then any manipulations happen on the scaled-down
version. So you can only use it to crop, etc., small images.

(Or maybe they've fixed that by now. The version of xv for
Solaris 8 that's I'm using is pretty old...)

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