topic Wanted: Lightweight Image Viewer for TIFF files in Operating System - HP-UX

Wanted: Lightweight Image Viewer for TIFF files

A. Daniel King_1 — Tue, 09 Sep 2003 16:21:44 GMT

Hi, folks.

I see the somewhat dated:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x82fca14d9abcd4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

and some other such hits. I'm looking for a lightweight HP-UX 11i TIFF viewer. I'm quite impressed with gimp as well as gThumb and some of the others which come with a standard Red Hat release, but these seem to rely upon a significant tool-chain to compile and/or get running on HP-UX (usually starting with gnome and gtk, which I don't need for any other reason). Does CDE come with some type of TIFF viewer?

I've also looked at: http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/, but ... making things more complicated is the seeming lack of pgp or md5 sums. I'm keen to have some sort of checksum, especially since the FSF compromise.

Personal experience, even if limited, gets extra points ...

Re: Wanted: Lightweight Image Viewer for TIFF files

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Tue, 09 Sep 2003 16:26:04 GMT

I'm a *BIG* fan of IrfanView. Though not (yet) available on HP-UX, searching on Google with 'irfanview+linux' leads you to some pretty interesting links.

FWIW Irfanview *does* run under wine, which I've not (yet) seen ported to HP-UX, but who knows ...

Enjoy, have FUN! H.Merijn (HTH)

Re: Wanted: Lightweight Image Viewer for TIFF files

Pete Randall — Tue, 09 Sep 2003 16:30:24 GMT

Hi Daniel,

I've always used /opt/image/bin/imageview. However, I'm now not sure where I got it. If I look on my latest 11i server, I see /opt/image, but there's no bin directory and no executables to be found. I suspect maybe I grabbed it from the porting center (your utah link) years ago and have just migrated it forward when new releases got installed. Not much help I'm afraid.

Pete

Re: Wanted: Lightweight Image Viewer for TIFF files

Mark Grant — Tue, 09 Sep 2003 16:31:14 GMT

How about "xv" one of the oldies but still a goody!!!!

Re: Wanted: Lightweight Image Viewer for TIFF files

Basheer_2 — Tue, 09 Sep 2003 16:56:33 GMT

How about Utils at
www.imagemagic.org

Re: Wanted: Lightweight Image Viewer for TIFF files

Shannon Petry — Tue, 09 Sep 2003 17:30:43 GMT

Well, my personal experience is with many tools available on hpux.cs.utah.edu and are all positive.

I use gime, imagemagick, and xv regularly.

The porting center has depots for all the required binaries, as well as the apps to let them run.

If you dont trust 3rd party with no md5 checksum, then download the source for each and compile and install.

Or install the WT tools from application media. There is a tiff viewer, but it does not support all formats of tiff.

Regards,
Shannon

Re: Wanted: Lightweight Image Viewer for TIFF files

Gerard Leclercq — Wed, 10 Sep 2003 05:18:05 GMT

Dear Pete Randall,

I use also imageview. It is no longer on 11i,
because HP says there is a lot of other viewers and it is not worth to maintain imageview.
It is a pity because as a viewer, it is simple, small and is very fast for big scanned A1 or A0 technical drawings. Other viewer cannot handle such big files.
The hpux 10.20 version of imageview run without any problem on 11i.

Re: Wanted: Lightweight Image Viewer for TIFF files

Alan Turner — Wed, 10 Sep 2003 06:50:26 GMT

HP did drop imageview from 11i, but then they relented and put it into WT SharedX, under patch PHSS_27986. WT SharedX is part of TCOE, not MTOE, but the imageview binary runs OK on MTOE as far as I can tell.

So, if you're TCOE, no problem, otherwise you might have to dig the file out of the depot.

The md5 checksum for imageview on my system is:
78b0735e91972f8e1695e67e80b46254 (file size 188416)

Another option might be to install the "workstation cd-rw software november 2001" (HP part number A5990-11001). This is intended to supply cdrecord and X-CD-Roast, but includes ImageMagick 4.2.9 as part of X-CD-Roast. Even better, it comes with GIF compression enabled, whereas I think the porting centre version disables GIF compression