PikView - a modern image viewer with some cool features
=======================================================

*NOTE*: The name of the executable has changed from "pikview" to "pv"
as of version 0.9.1 (see http://pikview.sourceforge.net/)


Homepage and download at:  http://pikview.sourceforge.net/

PikView is an image viewer which uses the KDE libraries

Features
========

- PikView can read the following image types: png, jpeg, tiff, gif, netpbm
  (and via the ImageMagick library - eps, pict, dcx, pcx, mif, bmp, viff, pnm)
- Fast image display: an asynchronous image loader preloads images before
  they are required.
- Image zooming with out extreme memory usage
- Sophisticated thumbnail management
    - Thumbnails cached in database files
    - Command-line thumbnail creation
    - Highspeed JPEG thumbnail creation
- Rapid Filing of image files: images can be filed into directories by
  user definable shortcuts
- Fullscreen mode
- Printing
- Slideshow mode
- Efficient, flicker free repainting
- Panning via mouse and keyboard.


Platforms
=========

PikView compiles correctly on the latest versions of: redhat,
caldera, mandrake, slackware and suse. It should be easy to port to any
platform which supports KDE.



Compile - Install
=================

PikView requires the following libraries to be installed:

kde libaries, pthreads, gdbm, ImageMagick(optional)

If you don't have ImageMagick installed you lose support for several
image formats. If you're compiling you own vesion do the following:

- Unpack the tar archive and change to the pikview directory
Then type,

    ./configure
    make
    su
    make install

If you're a tcsh user type: rehash

That's it. Try it out by typing:

    pv


Help
====

PikView has an html help file (press F1) which details most of its
features and accelerator keys. Unfortunately it is in english only so
non-english speakers may need to file and open this file manually.
Usually:

	kdehelp $KDEDIR/doc/kde/HTML/en/pikview/index.html
or
	kdehelp $KDEDIR/share/doc/HTML/en/pikview/index.html


Problems
========

If configure barfs check you have the correct libraries installed. The
major linux distributions all carry these libraries. Otherwise go to

http://pikview.sourceforge.net/

and checkout the FAQ and Bugs sections.



Development
===========

If you would like to contribute to PikView please let me know.



Cheers,

  Andrew


--
Andrew Richards <ajr@users.sourceforge.net>
