About the KDE Image Viewer (KView)

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KView is an image viewer program for the K Desktop Environment. It is distributed as a standard KDE component in the KDE Graphics package.

KView is distributed complete with source code under the GNU Public License. It is considered stable and largely bug free, but is still under development. If you are using KDE from cvs or cvsup, you may see new features appear all the time.

Features include:

• Lots of formats. Support for GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, XBM, XPM, TIFF, PBM (P1), PGM (P2), PPM (P3), PBMRAW (P4), PGMRAW (P5) and PPMRAW (P6) image formats. Experimental EPS support is also available.
• Full integration with KDE, including session management, on-the-fly look and feel changing, fully configurable keybindings, URL drag and drop, multiple image viewers.
• URL open support. Open images from an ftp site or web server, or even an image within a tar.gz archive on a remote server. As more protocols are added to the KDE IO subsystem, kview will automatically inherit them, eg samba support.
• Full-featured slideshow system, including loop and shuffle.
• Other standard viewer features: zoom, flip, rotate, resize, smooth, greyscale, gamma correct, set image as desktop background.
• Image filter system, allowing easy extension of image processing capabilities using, for example, an external process.

Contact the Author: Sirtaj Singh Kang <taj@kde.org>

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