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by **Rasaki Bidemi Bolanle Temidi** » Fri, 20 Mar 1998 04:00:00

Hi Everyone,

I am ashamed to admit that I run Windows95 on a seperate partition of my
computer. Under it, I have used programs like ACDSee to look at a whole
directory of pictures. The program shows me all the pictures in a thumbnail
format and lets me select the ones that I want to see in full size.

Is there an equivalent program under LINUX. XV, ImageMagick, and The GIMP are
great for viewing and editing pictures but none of them seem to have the ability
to present a directory of photos in thumbnail format. Or do they?

If anyone can point me to the right program or tell me how to produce thumbnail
images with the programs that I already have under LINUX, I would greatly
appreciate it.

Thanks in advance,

Bidemi Temidire

--
A child is born
With a heart of gold
The way of the world
Makes his heart so cold

- Earth Wind And Fire (That's The Way Of The World)

by **Umut Seze** » Fri, 20 Mar 1998 04:00:00

Quote:> Hi Everyone,

> I am ashamed to admit that I run Windows95 on a seperate partition of my
> computer. Under it, I have used programs like ACDSee to look at a whole
> directory of pictures. The program shows me all the pictures in a thumbnail
> format and lets me select the ones that I want to see in full size.

> Is there an equivalent program under LINUX. XV, ImageMagick, and The GIMP are
> great for viewing and editing pictures but none of them seem to have the ability
> to present a directory of photos in thumbnail format. Or do they?

> If anyone can point me to the right program or tell me how to produce thumbnail
> images with the programs that I already have under LINUX, I would greatly
> appreciate it.

> Thanks in advance,

> Bidemi Temidire

> --
> A child is born
> With a heart of gold
> The way of the world
> Makes his heart so cold

> - Earth Wind And Fire (That's The Way Of The World)

Yes, xv does (although you say that it does not).

Launch "Visual Schnauzer" from the windows menu.

Then press "update" button in the directory which contains images.

Umut

by **sub..** » Fri, 20 Mar 1998 04:00:00

Quote:> I am ashamed to admit that I run Windows95 on a seperate partition
> of my computer. Under it, I have used programs like ACDSee to look
> at a whole directory of pictures. The program shows me all the
> pictures in a thumbnail format and lets me select the ones that I
> want to see in full size. Is there an equivalent program under
> LINUX. XV, ImageMagick, and The GIMP are great for viewing and
> editing pictures but none of them seem to have the ability to
> present a directory of photos in thumbnail format. Or do they? If
> anyone can point me to the right program or tell me how to produce
> thumbnail images with the programs that I already have under LINUX,
> I would greatly appreciate it.

Lauch xv in the image directory and type control-v. Then click
update.

Alternative way using Netscape (might be preferable):
I wrote the following small C program to generate a HTML file
which can be viewed with netscape as a clickable image browser with
thumnail images.
Suppose that your images are in a directory ~/pix. Do:
% gcc image_browser.c -o showme
% showme ~/pix/*.gif ~/pix/*.jpg > thumbs.html
% netscape -remote 'openURL('file:`pwd`/thumbs.html')'

You can easily the customize the program to your need by tweaking
the values of the constants.

#include <stdio.h> /* image_browser.c */

const max_pix_per_line=5;
const pix_height=100;
const pix_gap=20;

main(int ac, char **av)
{
int i,cnt;
printf("<html><head></head><body>\n\n"
"<table cellspacing=%d>\n", pix_gap);
cnt=0;
for(i=1; i<ac; i++) {
if(cnt==0) printf("<tr>\n");
printf("<td> <a href=\"%s\">"
" <img border=0 height=%d src=\"%s\"> </a> </td>\n",
av[i], pix_height, av[i]);
cnt++;
if(cnt==max_pix_per_line) {
printf("</tr>\n");
cnt=0;
}
}
if(cnt!=0) printf("</tr>\n");
printf("</table>\n\n</body></html>\n");

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by **D.J. Rober** » Fri, 20 Mar 1998 04:00:00

Quote:> Is there an equivalent program under LINUX. XV, ImageMagick, and The GIMP are
> great for viewing and editing pictures but none of them seem to have the ability
> to present a directory of photos in thumbnail format. Or do they?

Others have already told you that xv can do it. So can ImageMagick.
Have a look at the man page for 'montage'.

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by **Jedi Master Yo** » Sat, 21 Mar 1998 04:00:00

>Lauch xv in the image directory and type control-v. Then click
>update.

I've been *ed to xv's 'Visual Schnauzer' feature for a while,
but I am puzzled on one point. Can you persuade it to open more than
one picture at once? I can't figure out how to do it.

JM "Duhhh" Y

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