From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) Subject: Re: Applications for Linux Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 17:51:01 GMT
In article <23281@mindlink.bc.ca>, Lloyd_Sumpter@mindlink.bc.ca (Lloyd Sumpter) writes:
| Now for the tough stuff (I'm assuming I'll have X running):
| - GIF/JPEG viewer: I've seen several. Which is the best?
There are two useful programs, xli and xv. xv does tons of nifty stuff
with playing with the image, but converts it internally to 8 bit. xli
just displays, but is faster, will pan inside an images larger than the
screen, and will handle up to 24 bits if someone ever does a better X
server for Linux.
| - Graphics converter: JPEG <-> EPS, etc. especially with scale, crop,
PBM has been ported, I believe (there's a file for it). And the free
JPEG stuff ports, although I never bothered to upload it since it's not
Linux speciffic, just compile.
| - Paint program: or at least some method of bitmap editing.
| - FAX send//receive
| - CAD
A lot less diversity here.
|
| Hardware/software combos:
| - Video capture: grey-scale is fine.
| - EPROM programmer: (OK, I'm dreaming!)
Actually the programmer should be a really easy device driver to
write, having written program interfaces to them in ISIS, CP/M and DOS.
Depending on the actual unit you use, it should be about an evening's
work to do the driver, although the actual program to accept binary
and/or hex format will take longer unless you have one to cobble.
Unfortunately the only one I have of my own is based on S-100 bus, not
likely for Linux.
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