[TriLUG] TIF viewer recommendation

[Mike McLean]

"M. Mueller/bhu5nji" wrote:
> Hmm.  That was interesting.  In my Mandrake 8.1 KDE installation, in the menu
> under Multimedia-Graphics I did find ImageMagick display.  It did nothing but
> try to start and then quit. 

Yeah, I've seen this behavior.  There's even a bug in RedHat's bugzilla
about it.  It's strange because the program clearly works, and the
launcher has the right command line, but display just won't run from the
menu.  Maybe be something with environment variables.

> I need to figure out the .tif to .pdf thing you mentioned too.
> 
> This program is not for idiots, however. 

Well, display has a decent gui interface.  Did you find the pop-up
menus?  Just right of left click on the image.

The ImageMagick programs have a lot of options, but for basic tasks you
can ignore them.  For example, to convert a tif to a pdf, use
% convert foo.tif foo.pdf
Or to convert to postscript, use
% convert foo.tif foo.ps
You get the idea...


On a side note, you can pipe image streams into display (something no
other image viewer seems to be able to do).
% zcat image.xxx.gz | display