The Eye of GNOME Image Viewer
application enables you to view single image files, as well as large image collections.
You can start Image Viewer in the following ways:
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Open an image file in Nautilus.
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Choose
from the menu.
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Run eog at the prompt in a terminal
such as gnome-terminal, or from the
Run Application dialog.
To close the current Image Viewer window choose , or press
Ctrl+W.
Image Viewer supports a variety of image file formats. The following image formats can be opened:
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ANI - Animation
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BMP - Windows Bitmap
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GIF - Graphics Interchange Format
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ICO - Windows Icon
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JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group
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PCX - PC Paintbrush
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PNG - Portable Network Graphics
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PNM - Portable Anymap from the PPM Toolkit
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RAS - Sun Raster
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SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics
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TGA - Targa
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TIFF - Tagged Image File Format
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WBMP - Wireless Bitmap
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XBM - X Bitmap
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XPM - X Pixmap
Image Viewer supports the following formats for saving:
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BMP - Windows Bitmap
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ICO - Windows Icon
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JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group
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PNG - Portable Network Graphics
Image Viewer may be able to open and save other image formats, depending on your system configuration and other installed software.
Image Viewer has a variety of features to help you view your images.
You can zoom in and out or view the image full screen. Regardless of
your zoom level, Image Viewer uses a low amount of memory. You can also
rotate and flip the image you are viewing.
The gallery view allows the viewing and editing of large
image collections. In this view image operations can be applied
to all selected images at once.
Image Viewer has special support for digital camera pictures and
displays EXIF metadata recorded with the image. This feature
requires libexif to be
installed on your system. All modifications made in JPEG images
are lossless. That is, saving rotated and flipped JPEG images
will not recompress the image. Beside this all available metadata
(like EXIF) will be preserved and updated accordingly.
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- Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004 Sun Microsystems
- Copyright © 2000 Eliot Landrum
- Copyright © 2000 The Free Software Foundation
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