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@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@ +.TH ida 1 "(c) 2001,02 Gerd Knorr" +.SH NAME +ida - image viewing and editing program +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B ida [ options ] files +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B ida +is a small and fast application for viewing images. Some basic +editing functions are available too. +.P +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). +.SH OPTIONS +.B ida +understands the usual toolkit options (-geometry + friends). +Additional options are: +.TP +.B -help +print a short help text +.TP +.B -pcd n +Pick size for PhotoCD images (1 .. 5, default 3). +.TP +.B -debug +enable debug messages. Also has the side effect that error messages +are displayed on stderr only and \fInot\fP as message box. +.SH GETTING STARTED +.SS Mouse functions +With the left mouse button you can creates and edit a selection +rectangle. The middle mouse button is used to start drag'n'drop +operations. The right mouse button brings up the control window with +menus, toolbar and file list. +.br +.SS 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. +.P +All available keyboard shortcuts are also listed in the menus of the +control window. The most important ones are listed below: +.P +.nf +space next file +backspace previous file +cursor keys scrolling (hold ctrl key for big steps). +plus / minus zoom in/out +Q quit +.fi +.SS Supported image formats +.B read: +PPM, xwd, PhotoCD, xpm, xbm, bmp (uncompressed), JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF. +The last four are supported using the usual libraries, i.e. you need +to have them installed at compile time. +.br +.B write: +PPM, PostScript, JPEG, TIFF, PNG. +.SS Using drag'n'drop +.B ida +is a motif application and thus supports the motif drag'n'drop +protocol in both directions. The xdnd protocol is supported too, but +only in one direction (receive drops). +.P +.B 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. +.P +.B 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 +simply works. Mozilla accepts motif drops too. +.P +Interoperation with +.B 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. +.P +Interoperation with +.B 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 understand what the TARGETS +target is good for and violate the ICCCM specs by ignoring it. +.SH AUTHOR +Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org> +.SH COPYRIGHT +Copyright (C) 2002 Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org> +.P +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. +.P +This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +GNU General Public License for more details. +.P +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. |