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The familiar sight of the XV
startup logo and copyright screen.
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The distinctive pale blue control
panel of XV; tidy, compact and functional.
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The ultra handy 'visual Schnauzer'
that XV offers.
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Adjust the intensity of colours,
the hue, saturation, RGB values and more in the colour editor.
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Until Gimp, XV was THE main graphics program
for X systems. Now it seems as if it may soon be overtaken in popularity
stakes by the young tearaway!
XV still remains the graphics program that most X systems will have.
It is small, fast and produces some good effects. I mostly use XV as a
previewer, with the quick 'Visual Schnauzer', and for image conversion;
as it takes only 1 or 2 seconds to open XV from my desktop menu - Gimp
on the other hand may take upto 30!
Along with its fast speed, and small memory footprint, XV has some neat
effects that you can apply on images - these include:
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Blur
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Sharpen
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Edge detect
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Emboss
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Oil Painting
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Pixelise
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Blend
The 'Visual Schnauzer' is a fast thumbnail viewer, automatically creating
thumbnail previews for any image encountered in the current directory
- it can also browse ASCII (text) and hex files (binary) and display them.
Because XV is so small and fast, it is an excellent image convertor;
I don't want to load up Gimp just to convert a JPEG to a GIF, or a PCX
to XPM. Luckily XV supports all of the following filetypes:
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GIF
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JPEG (variable comp, smoothing)
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TIFF (no comp, LZW, packbits)
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PNG (comp, Gamma, Filters, interlace)
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Postscript (width, height, preview, comp, paper size, resolution etc.)
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PBM
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PGM
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PPM
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XBM (X11 Bitmap)
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XPM
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BPM
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Sun Rasterfile
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IRIS RGB
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Targa (TGA)
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FITS
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PM
XV also features online help for commands, keyboard features, and tools
for editing of images. Even with all of the new image editors that are
being released, XV will still be around for a long time. |
