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IDA(1) Image viewing and editing program IDA(1) NAME ida - image viewing and editing program SYNOPSIS ida [options] file ... DESCRIPTION Ida is a small and fast application for viewing images. Some basic editing functions are available too. You can specify any number of image files as arguments on the command line. Or you can read a single image from stdin by specifying "-" as only argument ("xwd | ida -" works nice for screenshots). OPTIONS Ida understands the usual toolkit options (-geometry + friends). Addi- tional options are: -help print a short help text -pcd n Pick size for PhotoCD images (n = 1 .. 5, default 3). -debug Enable debug messages. Also has the side effect that error mes- sages are displayed on stderr only and not as message box. GETTING STARTED Mouse functions With the left mouse button you can creates and edit a selection rectan- gle. The middle button is used to start drag'n'drop operations. The right button brings up the control window with menus, toolbar and file list. Keyboard Shortcuts Many keyboard shortcuts used by xv are available in ida too. If you are familiar with xv if should be easy for you to get started with ida. All available keyboard shortcuts are also listed in the menus of the control window. The most important ones are listed below: SPACE Next file. BACKSPACE Previous file. LEFT_ARROW, RIGHT_ARROW, UP_ARROW, DOWN_ARROW Scrolling (hold Ctrl key for big steps). +/- Zoom in/out. q Quit. Supported image formats Read: BMP (uncompressed), PhotoCD, PPM, XBM, XPM, XWD, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF. The last four are supported using the usual libraries, i.e. you need to have them installed at compile time. Write: JPEG, PNG, PostScript, PPM, TIFF. Using drag'n'drop Ida is a motif application and thus supports the motif drag'n'drop pro- tocol in both directions. The xdnd protocol is supported too, but only in one direction (receive drops). Ida uses the middle mouse button to start a drag'n'drop operation (as the motif style guide suggests). This works for the main window and the file buttons within the file browser. Motif applications should have absolutely no problems to deal with ida's drag'n'drop support. You can drop images into some netscape 4.x window -- it imply works. Mozilla accepts motif drops too. Interoperation with gnome / gtk is good. I can drag files from ida to eeyes and visa versa without problems. File drops from gmc into ida work just fine too. Interoperation with KDE is bad. cut+paste works most of the time, drag'n'drop often doesn't. The X11 selection handling of the Qt toolkit has a few design bugs and sucks. Basically the troll guys didn't under- stand what the TARGETS target is good for and violate the ICCCM specs by ignoring it. SEE ALSO xwd(1) AUTHOR Gerd Hoffmann <gerd@kraxel.org> COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2002-2012 Gerd Hoffmann <gerd@kraxel.org> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER- CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. IDA 2.09 (c) 2001-2012 Gerd Hoffmann IDA(1)
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