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- This is the distribution of gThumb, an image viewer and browser utility
- for the GNOME environment.
-
- Notes:
-
- * versions from 0.1 to 0.13 are for the GNOME 1.x environment.
-
- * versions from 1.100 to 2.0 are for the GNOME 2.0 environment, though
- they can be used even in the GNOME 2.2 environment but in this case
- gThumb and Nautilus do not share the thumbnails database.
-
- * versions 2.2.0 and higher are for GNOME 2.2 and GNOME 2.4.
-
- * more information about gthumb can be found at:
- http://gthumb.sourceforge.net
-
- What is gThumb
- ==============
-
- * gThumb is an image browser
-
- + Browse your hard disk showing you thumbnails of image files.
- + Thumbnails are saved in the same database used by Nautilus so you
- don't waste disk space.
- + Automatically update the content of a folder.
- + Copy, move, delete images and folders.
- + Bookmarks of folders and catalogs.
-
- * gThumb is an image viewer
-
- + View single images (including GIF animations). Supported image
- types are: BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, TGA, ICO, XPM.
- + View EXIF data attached to JPEG images.
- + View in fullscreen mode.
- + View images rotated, flipped, mirrored.
-
- * gThumb is an image organizer
-
- + Add comments to images.
- + Organize images in catalogs, catalogs in libraries.
- + Print images and comments.
- + Search for images on you hard disk and save the result as a catalog.
- Search criteria remain attached to the catalog so you can update it
- when you want.
-
- * gThumb is an image editor
-
- + Change image hue, saturation, lightness, contrast and adjust colors.
- + Scale and rotate images.
- + Save images in the following formats: JPEG, PNG, TIFF, TGA.
-
- * gThumb is an advanced tool
-
- + Import images from a digital camera.
- + Slide Shows.
- + Set an image as Desktop background.
- + Create index image.
- + Rename images in series.
- + Convert image format.
- + Change images date and time.
- + JPEG lossless transformations.
- + Find duplicated images.
- + Write images to CD/DVD.
-
- * gThumb is a Bonobo component
-
- + Image viewer component. Differences with the EOG component:
- display GIF animations, print the image and its comment.
-
- Licensing
- =========
-
- This program is released under the terms of the GNU General Public
- License (GNU GPL).
-
- You can find a copy of the license in the file COPYING.
-
- Compiling
- =========
-
- In order to build this program you need a working GNOME environment
- version 2 or greater, with the development tools installed properly.
- The following is the detailed list of libraries you need:
-
- * glib version >= 2.2.0
- * gtk version >= 2.2.0
- * libxml version >= 2.4.0
- * libgnome version >= 2.2.0
- * libgnomeui version >= 2.2.0
- * libgnomecanvas version >= 2.0.0
- * gnome-vfs version >= 2.1.3
- * libglade version >= 2.0.0
- * libgnomeprint version >= 2.1.0
- * libgnomeprintui version >= 2.1.0
- * libbonobo version >= 2.3.3
- * libbonoboui version >= 2.3.3
-
- If you want to view EXIF data attached to images, you need the libexif
- library version >= 0.5.12 that can be found at this web site :
- http://libexif.sourceforge.net
-
- If the libtiff library is present you can save images in TIFF
- format.
-
- If the libjpeg library is present you have more saving options for
- the JPEG format and the 'rotate jpeg' tool is implemented internally
- otherwise it is implemented calling the external command: jpegtran.
-
- If the libgphoto2 library version >= 2.1.3 is present you can import
- photos from your camera.
-
- Download
- ========
-
- * Tar archives can be found here:
-
- http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gthumb
-
- * If you know what the CVS is and how to use it, you can download the
- latest development version using the following command:
-
- cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome co gthumb
-
-
- 17 December 2003
-