From: jimf@centerline.com (Jim Frost)
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Subject: [comp.windows.x] Xloadimage V4.1 (image viewer) now available
Date: 11 Nov 1993 11:27:22 +0100
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Archive-Name: auto/comp.windows.x/Xloadimage-V4-1-image-viewer-now-available

Xloadimage version 4.1 is now available by anonymous ftp from
export.lcs.mit.edu in /contrib/xloadimage.4.1.tar.Z.

This is a minor bug-fix release but contains improvements that can
dramatically improve performance when viewing JPEG images.

Version 4.1 contains the following enhancements over version 4.0:

* Numerous ANSI-C compilation problems are corrected.
* Improved automatic configuration for some systems (eg HP, SGI).
* The JPEG library is now compiled with optimization.
* Includes version 4A of the IJG JPEG code.
* A few minor bug-fixes.

The following image types are supported:

Type Name  Can Dump Description
---------- -------- -----------
niff       Yes      Native Image File Format (NIFF)
sunraster  No       Sun Rasterfile
gif        No       GIF Image
jpeg       Yes      JFIF-style JPEG Image
tiff       Yes      TIFF image
fbm        No       FBM Image
cmuraster  No       CMU WM Raster
pbm        Yes      Portable Bit Map (PBM, PGM, PPM)
faces      No       Faces Project
rle        No       Utah RLE Image
xwd        No       X Window Dump
vff        No       Sun Visualization File Format
mcidas     No       McIDAS areafile
vicar      No       VICAR Image
pcx        No       PC Paintbrush Image
gem        No       GEM Bit Image
macpaint   No       MacPaint Image
xpm        No       X Pixmap
xbm        No       X Bitmap

Due to the inclusion of the IJG V4 JPEG and V3 TIFF libraries,
the xloadimage v4.0 distribution is significantly larger than previous
versions.  I can no longer email copies to people, unfortunately.

I am willing to distribute copies of the source on 1.44Mb floppy disk
(or other media if supplied by the requestor) for a small charge, and
can produce precompiled binaries for many common systems as well.  If
you're interested send email to me at jimf@centerline.com for more
information.

WHAT IS XLOADIMAGE?

Xloadimage is a UNIX+X11 image display utility which can recognize
many different common, and some uncommon, image types --
automatically.  It supports all X11 displays, automatically processing
images for display on low-end servers if necessary.  It compiles
out-of-the-box on almost all UNIX systems with little user
intervention.  It allows slideshow viewing, can place images on the
root window of servers, and can even handle image input from a pipe.
A number of common image processing functions are available for
fine-tuning images.

Enjoy,

jim frost
jimf@centerline.com

-- 
Jost Krieger, Rechenzentrum der Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
Jost.Krieger@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
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