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- WHAT IS XLI ?
-
- xli is a multiformat bitmap image viewer for X11 displays
- (and MSDOS systems that run DJGPP) It is command line driven
- and provides a fast, robust and high quality method of viewing
- images, or loading them onto the root window. It has a variety
- of options to fine tune viewing or create image loops etc. It
- automatically decodes uu encoded files and compressed (.Z) files.
-
- It supports all X11 visuals, and will display 24 bit pictures in
- true color on an appropriate display. Unlike nearly all other
- popular viewers, it gamma corrects images appropriately for the
- display CRT before displaying them, giving correct image contrast.
-
- The current version (1.15) supports:
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- CMU Window Manager raster files
- Faces Project images
- Fuzzy Bitmap (.fbm) images
- GEM bit images
- GIF images (Including GIF89a compatibility)
- G3 FAX images
- JFIF style jpeg images
- McIDAS areafiles
- MacPaint images
- Monochrome PC Paintbrush (.pcx) images
- Portable Bitmap (.pbm, .pgm, .ppm) images
- Sun monochrome rasterfiles
- Sun color RGB rasterfiles
- Targa (.tga) files
- Utah Raster Toolkit (.rle) files
- X pixmap (.xpm) files (Version 1, 2C and 3)
- X10 bitmap files
- X11 bitmap files
- X Window Dump (except TrueColor and DirectColor)
-
- A variety of options are available to modify images prior to viewing.
- These options include clipping, dithering, depth reduction, zoom
- (either X or Y axis independently or both at once), brightening or
- darkening, input image gamma correction, and image merging. When applicable,
- these options are done automatically (eg. a color image to be displayed
- on a monochrome screen will be dithered automatically). A utility (xlito)
- is provided that allows these viewing options to be attached to the image
- files.
-
- It is possible to interactively adjust image contrast (gamma).
-
- HOW IS XLI RELATED TO XLOADIMAGE ?
-
- xli version 1.00 was based on xloadimage version 3.01,
- and retains option compatibility with it.
-
- WHAT IMPROVEMENTS ARE IN VERSION 1.15 over 1.14a ?
-
- Added Targe (TGA) image support.
- Fixed up gif reader to cope with GIF89a format.
- Added -fillscreen option.
- Improved color handling so that default colormap colors are
- re-used (reduces flashing).
- Added interactive gamma (brightness) adjustment.
- Did initial port to MSDOS, based on djgcc 1.09 environment.
- Some speedups in color reduction and colormap compression.
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- WHERE CAN I GET IT ?
-
- ftp on export.lcs.mit.edu in /contrib, and mirrors of this
- archive.
-
- - Graeme Gill
- graeme@labtam.oz.au
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