Text editor capable of opening Images.

////// · 11-07-2006, 10:29 AM

Hello, does anyone of you know any text editor capable of opening and editing image files (gif's, jpg's etc) ?

KEdit <- corrupted file
KWrite <- corrupted file
Kate <- corrupted file

Jpico <- can open & edit & save but I would like to have nice KDE gui.

TIA

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paulsm4 · 11-07-2006, 10:57 AM

Hi -

The Gimp is an obvious choice for opening and editing image files (analogous to - but far superior to - mspaint).

Similarly, "Kate" and "Kwrite" are analogous to Notepad or Wordpad.

I think you're looking for something like MS-Word or MS-Powerpoint, right?

Have you tried Open Office?

jschiwal · 11-07-2006, 11:14 AM

Are you looking for something like ghex to perform binary editing. Or maybe an exif manipulation program.

b0uncer · 11-07-2006, 11:27 AM

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The Gimp is an obvious choice for opening and editing image files (analogous to - but far superior to - mspaint).

I'd say Gimp is more like Photoshop than MS Paint. There are some "biggish" differencies with Gimp and Photoshop (like the ability to load 16-bit/channel images, which isn't possible with Gimp today if I'm right, at least without some 3rd-party plugin -- ufraw is, but only for RAW camera files), but mostly Gimp resembles Photoshop; MS Paint is something else..

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Jpico <- can open & edit & save but I would like to have nice KDE gui.

I read that so that a text-based editor (or hex?) is needed rather than an image editing program or a text processor (like Writer)..

////// · 11-07-2006, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by paulsm4

Hi -

The Gimp is an obvious choice for opening and editing image files (analogous to - but far superior to - mspaint).

Similarly, "Kate" and "Kwrite" are analogous to Notepad or Wordpad.

I think you're looking for something like MS-Word or MS-Powerpoint, right?

Have you tried Open Office?

Hi, yes I know, the reason why I want to use text editor is that I'm testing how an exploit works.
Like adding php script to the end of an image file and renaming it image.php.jpg <snip> .. <snip> That is the reason why I'm looking for text editor, in windows Notepad++ is capable of opening images (without corrupting) and adding "text" to them.

I can do that with Jpico but I would like to have KDE gui just to be able to view it more easily.

Cheers

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slantoflight · 11-07-2006, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by //////

That is the reason why I'm looking for text editor, in windows Notepad++ is capable of opening images (without corrupting) and adding "text" to them.
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Not really. You're going to run into problems with this eventually.