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rbrownclown

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Registered: 2006-12-29

Posts: 125

Best Image Viewer

I'm looking for a simple and clean looking image viewer for GNOME.  What do you guys recommend?

Jansson

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-09-10

Posts: 106

Re: Best Image Viewer

Mirage is worth a look.

rbrownclown

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Registered: 2006-12-29

Posts: 125

Re: Best Image Viewer

That's perfect!  Thanks!

Now, I need a decent pdf viewer.  I'm using XPDF at the moment, and the interface is ugly.

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: Best Image Viewer

Isn't evince a default pdf-and-what-else GNOME viewer?

waltm

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From: alabama

Registered: 2006-03-21

Posts: 69

Re: Best Image Viewer

Also try gqview and qiv.

venox

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From: Curitiba, Brazil

Registered: 2003-08-23

Posts: 137

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Re: Best Image Viewer

Try epdfview
Here I use epdfview and mirage

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Borosai

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From: Sandy Appendix, U.S.A.

Registered: 2006-06-15

Posts: 227

Re: Best Image Viewer

I use Mirage and ePDFView. They are both lightweight and work pretty well.

karmapolice

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Registered: 2007-01-31

Posts: 113

Re: Best Image Viewer

I use evince for PDF and Eye of GNOME (eog) for images.

SiD

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-09-21

Posts: 729

Re: Best Image Viewer

ePDFViewer
gThumb

phrakture

Arch Overlord

From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: Best Image Viewer

I use feh to view entire directories. "feh -F *" is in my history fairly often

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KomodoDave

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From: Oxford, UK

Registered: 2007-04-22

Posts: 162

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Re: Best Image Viewer

"feh -F *" is in my history fairly often

KD wonders what perverse fact he can deduce from this...

kbutcher5

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Registered: 2007-04-22

Posts: 9

Re: Best Image Viewer

as mentioned so many times before mirage is a really good one

tt3346

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Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 13

Re: Best Image Viewer

Well, you may say that XPDF's GUI is ugly, but it's the best pdf viewer I've ever seen. I have tested several pdf viewer using a big pdf file with a very complicated photo. Acrobat Reader uses up 100M of RAM. epdfviewer uses 40M of RAM and 40s to render that page, and reduces to around 20M RAM after the rendering is done. xpdf in total only uses 4M of RAM and around 10s to render the same page with even better quality than epdfviewer. Besides, xpdf has a nice 'continuous' view feature which epdfviewer doesn't (of course acrobat reader has, but you know why we shouldn't use that program, right?). All the testing are done in an old laptop, Celeron 466, 128M ram, running XFCE 4.4. I really love X programs. They are so optimized.

Phrodo_00

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From: Seattle, WA

Registered: 2006-04-09

Posts: 342

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Re: Best Image Viewer

evince is pretty nice (also, it uses plopper, a library that has evolved from xpdf's rendering), eog is nice too, I use it to open individual random images (last time I checked, mirage was way too slow.), but use gthumb for viewing directories and stuff like that.

erikl

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From: Mars

Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 128

Re: Best Image Viewer

Comix is pretty nice, but feh is perfect too.
http://comix.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html

pelle.k

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From: Åre, Sweden (EU)

Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 667

Re: Best Image Viewer

Are we talking document viewers or image viewers? I assume you mean a pure (jpg/png etc) image viewer...
Never tried mirage out, but i can't live without gqview.

If you dont know about gnomefiles yet, http://www.gnomefiles.org/subcategory.php?sub_cat_id=35

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slackhack

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Registered: 2004-06-30

Posts: 738

Re: Best Image Viewer

gqview is the best. eog is good for single images. i'll have to try mirage.

evince kind of sucks, imo. i was viewing a document the other day, and if i scrolled more than a few pages, it would lock up temporarily with "Loading..." written on the page. i have an A64 3200+ and a gig of ram, it shouldn't do that.

i installed acrobat just to test (40MB?!?!) and it worked fine with the same document. not that i recommend using acrobat, it's a monster hog. as ugly as the old style gtk is, xpdf seems to be the best so far. haven't tried edpfview yet, will check it out tomorrow. if it's fast and doesn't dog out like evince and has good features, it might be a good solution. linux needs a good, full featured pdf viewer like acrobat, but without the bloat.

phrakture

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From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: Best Image Viewer

"feh -F *" is in my history fairly often

KD wonders what perverse fact he can deduce from this...

Hah.  It's generally not porn-related.

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KomodoDave

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From: Oxford, UK

Registered: 2007-04-22

Posts: 162

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Re: Best Image Viewer

"feh -F *" is in my history fairly often

KD wonders what perverse fact he can deduce from this...

Hah.  It's generally not porn-related.

pff... that's what they all say. Then you walk in one day, and have an image etched onto your brain that will haunt you forever. Especially if, like me, you accidentally discover someone you know likes fat porn O_o

(Btw I sent you an email via this forum, and you haven't replied - if you're too busy, that's cool, but I just wanted to make sure the email system in the forum actually works, so if you could let me know whether you got it....)

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matiit

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From: Poland

Registered: 2007-04-13

Posts: 141

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Re: Best Image Viewer

I think gthumb is the best (for me)

skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Best Image Viewer

gqview and evince here.

evince kind of sucks, imo. i was viewing a document the other day, and if i scrolled more than a few pages, it would lock up temporarily with "Loading..." written on the page. i have an A64 3200+ and a gig of ram, it shouldn't do that.

That happens to me constantly using epdfview with 4GB of RAM. I've never had any problems with PDFs opening with evince.

carlocci

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From: Padova - Italy

Registered: 2008-02-12

Posts: 368

Re: Best Image Viewer

My organization really likes MST Viewer http://www.ms-technology.com/document-m … iewer.html

You must really like this program: you made 123456, 6 posts in your first day on this forum telling us that and nothing else.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/search.php?act … r_id=19021

I don't really know what to think, either this program is really, really, really awesome (and then I would like to try it, but there's no download on the site) or you are a viral marketer.

Can you please enlighten me about the features of the MST viewer?

At the moment I'm using Gwenview, but the kde4 version is slow as hell and can't display animated gifs, but fortunately it displays an enormous bar on top when viewing images full screen.

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,487

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Re: Best Image Viewer

He really made 7 posts about that viewer which all seem to have mysteriously disappeared....   I doubt he will be back to talk about the features

Edit: Just noticed that this was resurrected from a year ago and there are much more recent threads about this so I will close the thread.

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