Is there one/why isn't there one? (image viewers)
An image viewer (one picture, not for browsing a whole folder of same) that reads and displays the data in the JPEG Comment header? I started my home computing experience (hate to call it a "career") in legacy Mac OS, and as far back as 1996, JPEGView, a single-image viewer, read in and displayed the information in this header. More recently, IrfanView in Windows has kept up its support for displaying this information. Likewise XnView (including Pierre's ever-improving MP version) has this capability.
So why in Linux do we have to "go abroad" to get this info displayed in a one-picture-at-a-time viewer? I appreciate Viewnior being able to show captions/descriptions in its "Properties" window, but captions aren't comments. Is JPEG so dead as a format that no Linux developer cares to support 'comments' without obfuscation? I'll leave these questions for someone with more familiarity with the GNU development "landscape" than I have to answer. Carver |
I'm not sure what you mean, do these programs display the metadata in the display window with the image or such? I know Eye Of MATE will show you the metadata if you go to file->properties but is that not automatic enough?
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Of all the viewers I've so far used in Linux, I'd expect Viewnior to imitate the legacy Mac JPEGView, but it too reads descriptions from the same source as EOG/EOM. Which is why I asked the question (paraphrased), "Is JPEG that dead?" Carver |
Maybe you need Geeqie; https://sourceforge.net/projects/geeqie/
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exiftool imagemagic are a few tools to get, and place info off/on the image
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@seventh7: I'll get it, but I've been having trouble with compile-make-make-install lately, so ultimately I may have to pass or use the Winz version in WINE. Carver |
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i understand geeqie is a little more than a "single image viewer", but it's still pretty lightweight (and can be used to open the image directly, without any sidebars and such). apart from that, there's about a hundred different image viewers for linux. i'm sure more than one would fit your bill. roll up your sleeves, install a dozen, read the docs... and tell us which one fits the bill best (not worst)! |
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