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a blog by Eckhard M. Jäger

Posts tagged with "viewer"

Gloobus - a nice, handy previewer

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Surfing around at Planet Gnome brings me to Gloobus, a nice and handy preview addon inspired by the preview of Mac OS X and Coverflow. For me the most interesting part is the Coverflow effect integration into Nautilus.
The bad news is that witout rebuilding Nautilus only the normal Gloobus 0.4 is available as a Deb archive. A really nice goody is that is install GTK PixBuf Loader for support of Photoshop PSD and GIMP XCF files to the entire Gnome desktop. So any Gnome graphics viewer (like EOG, F-Spot or gThumb) can preview these formats too.

If you like these features don't forget to support the project by a donation!

Adobe Reader 9.1 now for Linux

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After the last security updates 8.1.3 and 8.1.4 now the new Adobe Reader 9.1 is available for Linux too. Like ever it isn't the fast PDF viewer for daily usage (like Envince) but it is the best PDF viewer for prepress.

Acrobat Reader 8.1.3 update

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Envince and a lot of other PDF viewers are great for the daily usage. But working with PDF documents for prepress the best at all is always the Adobe PDF Reader. Due some security issues Adobe updated it now to version 8.1.3.
The Adobe Reader is available in various languages as a Deb and RPM archive too, so its easy for you to install it. You can get it via the Medibuntu Repository too.

Acrobat Reader 8.1.2 update

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Envince and all the others PDF viewesr are great for the daily use working with office documents. But the best for print layout previewings is always the Adobe PDF Reader. Adobe updated it to version 8.1.2 now, read about the changes at GnomeFiles.
The Adobe Reader is available as a Deb and RPM archive too, so its easy for you to install it.

XnView 1.92

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The new release of
XnView 1.92 is available. Improved features, more supported file formats and bugfixes, all in detail can be read here.
It is a Windows application (the Linux version is outdated and got a ugly GUI) but with some tweaks and a actual release of Wine it runs perfect on Linux too. There are some tweaks for let it running smooth:
* tell XnView in the options (F12) to use the registry for store settings (if not any settings get lost after closing XnView)
* change the ugly Win95 colors of Wine by running the Wine registry editor and go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors and setup the colors you like. You can tweak the GUI to give it the look of your desktop.

XnView 1.91.6

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XnView 1.91.6 is available. Again a release with bugfixes and improvements. Thanks to Pierre for this nice image viewer.
It is a Windows application but with some tweaks and a actual release of Wine it runs perfect on Linux too. And it can handle Gimp (XCF) and Photoshop (PSD) files (overall 400 formats supported).
You can tweak the GUI to give it the look of your desktop.

XnView 1.91.5

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XnView 1.91.5 is available. This is again a bugfix release of 1.91!
It is a Windows application but with some tweaks and a actual release of Windows. Wine it runs perfect on Windows. And it can handle Gimp (XCF) and Photoshop (PSD) images (overall 400 know formats).
You can tweak the GUI to look more in Ubuntu style.

gThumb 2.10.6

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gThumb 2.10.6 is released now, just bugfixes and minor improvements.
What i'm really missing is support of more file formats. While this didn't change i prefer XnView.

XnView 1.91.2

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XnView 1.91.2 is available. This is the 2nd bugfix release of 1.91!
It is a Windows application but with some tweaks and a actual release of Windows. Wine it runs perfect on Windows. And it can handle Gimp (XCF) and Photoshop (PSD) images (overall 400 know formats).
You can tweak the GUI to look more in Ubuntu style.

gThumb 2.10.5

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gThumb 2.10.5 hit the streets, after 2.10.4 a new bugfix release too. The gThumb webpage didn't list that progress now but take a look at GnomeFiles.

gThumb 2.10.3

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With a lot of bug fixes and some improvements a new release of gThumb - the Gnome image viewer - is available.
Some translation were updated too.

XnView 1.91

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XnView 1.91 is available.
It is a Windows application but with some tweaks and a actual release of Windows. Wine it runs perfect on Windows. And it can handle Gimp (XCF) and Photoshop (PSD) images (overall 400 know formats).
You can tweak the GUI to look more in Ubuntu style.

Bugfix release gThumb 2.10.1

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After a new final version of gThumb - the Gnome image viewer, a bugfix version is released.

gThumb 2.10.0

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A new final version of gThumb - the Gnome image viewer - is available. It has a lot of new features and improvements:
  • Added support for displaying remote locations.
  • Added red-eye removal tool.
  • Added a filter bar, to limit displayed images.
  • Added thumbnailing and player-launching for videos and audio files.
  • Added programmable hotkeys.
  • Added the ability to manually specify photo print sizes.
  • Added a zoom-to-width mode.
  • Added sort by comment and sort by Exif DateTime tag.
  • Adds support for multiple auto-detected cameras, or multiple modes for single cameras.
  • Enhancements to the crop dialog: added undo/redo support; allow to crop multiple times without exiting the dialog; allow to switch on/off the selection mask; zoom in/out with mouse wheel; zoom keeping the center of the image visible.
  • Allows file extension to be changed when bulk-renaming.
  • Added "reset Exif orientation tag" tool.
  • New re-size options in web exporter to allow equal landscape and portrait image sizes.

XnView 1.90.3 update

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XnView 1.90 get's again a small update, just bugfixing and minor improvements. It is a Windows application but with some tweaks and a actual release of Windows. Wine it runs perfect on Windows. And it can handle Gimp (XCF) and Photoshop (PSD) images (overall 400 know formats).

XnView 1.90.2

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XnView 1.90 get's a small update, just bugfixing. It is a Windows application but with some tweaks and a actual release of Windows. Wine it runs perfect on Windows. And it can handle Gimp (XCF) and Photoshop (PSD) images (overall 400 know formats).

XnView 1.90 final

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The famous viewer XnView is now available as version 1.90. Yes, it is a Windows application but with some tweaks and a actual release of Windows.Wine it runs perfect on Windows. And it can handle Gimp (XCF) and Photoshop (PSD) images (overall 400 know formats).