[TriLUG] TIF viewer recommendation

[Tom Bryan]

On Thursday 17 January 2002 06:54 am, M. Mueller/bhu5nji wrote:

> menu under Multimedia-Graphics I did find ImageMagick display.  It did
> nothing but try to start and then quit.  When I tried your suggestion on
> starting display from a shell prompt (see below), it worked (the Aha!
> moment that I am addicted to).  Thank you for the introduction to
> "display".  I followed up with a quick read of man display and I found the
> -flip and -flop options.  I still need to figure out how to scale down the
> image to fit the whole page on my screen.  

display -geometry 1024x768 imagefile
works for me.

You can also left-click on the image and choose View->Resize from the menu.  
By default, ImageMagick will force the resize to maintain the ratio between 
the height and the width (so you only need to enter the image width).

---Tom