imagetool(1)

NAME

imagetool − Image viewer for OpenWindows

SYNOPSIS

imagetool [ −usage ] [ −v ] [ −verbose ] [ imagefile ]

DESCRIPTION

imagetool is an interactive image viewer. imagetool can be used to view the contents of a variety of file types such as gif, tiff, jfif (jpeg) and POSTSCRIPT. The user may perform various operations on the image such as rotation, zooming and flipping to view the image differently. If the file loaded in is a POSTSCRIPT document, the user may page through the entire document, or skip to any page directly.

USAGE

The four menu buttons across the top of the main window are described below:

File The File menu contains the following items.

Open... Brings up a dialog which allows the user to select a file that is to be opened for viewing.

Open As...
Brings up a dialog which allows the user to select a file that is to be opened for viewing, and also allows the user to specify the file type.

Save... If the file has no name, this brings up a dialog for the user to specify the file name, and save the file. If the file is named, then this simply saves the currently viewed image to the file.

Save As...
Brings up a dialog which allows the user to specify the file name, the file type, number of colors and compression type of the file that is to be saved.

Save Selection As...
Brings up a dialog which allows the user to specify the file name, the file type, number of colors and compression type of the file that is to be saved. This menu item is only active if the user has selected a region of interest in the currently displayed image.

Save Image As...
Brings up a dialog which allows the user to specify the file name, the file type, number of colors and compression type of the file that is to be saved. This menu item is only active if the user if viewing a page of a POSTSCRIPT file.

Print One
Allows user to print one copy of the currently displayed image using the current values (which may be the default values) on the Print dialog.

Print Preview...
Brings up a window and displays the image as it would look if it were printed, based on the settings (which may be the default values) on the Print dialog.

Print... Brings up a dialog which allows user to set various parameters that affect the printing of the currently displayed image such as position, and size.

View The View menu contains the following items.

Image Info...
Brings up a window that displays various information about the currently viewed image, such as width and height.

Page Overview...
Brings up a dialog which displays at most 16 pages of the currently viewed document. The user may select a page for viewing from this display. This option is valid only if the user is viewing a POSTSCRIPT document.

PostScript Options
Brings up a dialog from which the user may set various parameters that affect the viewing of POSTSCRIPT files. This option is valid only if the user is viewing a POSTSCRIPT document.

Edit The Edit menu contains the following items.

Undo If the user has selected one of the various operator on the palette, he may undo his has selection by choosing this menu item.

Palette...
Brings up a palette with various operations that may be performed on the currently displayed image, such as rotation, zooming and flipping. If imagetool is started with a valid image file, the palette displays immediately when the window appears.

Properties...
Brings up a dialog that allows the user to specify options that affect how imagetool is run. These include whether to display images in gray scale or color, number of colors to display (this option depends on the framebuffer of the users system) and whether or not the palette is to display immediately or not.

Help... Launches the helpviewer(1) which provides the user with imagetool online help.

At the far right of the main panel, there is a drop target which has two functions. First, the user may drag files from another application ( filemgr for example ) and drop them in the drop target. This causes them to be loaded into the imagetool and displayed. Alternately, after a file has been loaded into the imagetool for display, the user may drag a copy of the file out imagetool by moving the mouse pointer to the drop target, pressing down on the left mouse button and dragging the resulting file image to another application ( filemgr again for example ). Below the main panel, there is a canvas on which the image is displayed. When imagetool starts up, it tries to create the window to fit the size of the image. However, if the image is very large, it may only show a portion of it. The user may however, use the scrollbars attached to the display canvas to move around within the image.

OPTIONS

−v Prints out the current version of imagetool.

−verbose
Prints lots of debugging information (not useful to the user)

−usage Prints out valid command line options.

If imagefile is specified, image is displayed automatically when
the window appears. If no argument is given, imagetool comes up with no document or image in it.

TRADEMARK

POSTSCRIPT is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Inc

SunOS 5.2 — Last change: 9 October 1992

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