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XnView v1.97
Copyright (c) 1991-2009 Pierre-E Gougelet
All Rights Reserved.
NVIEW
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Nview is a multi-format image viewer.
Type nview -help for available options.
NCONVERT
========
Nconvert is the multi-format commandline image converter for Win32, DOS, OS/2, a
nd other platforms.
Type "nconvert -help" for available options.
Type "nconvert -help > nchelp.txt" to save the help text into the file "nchelp
.txt".
To convert files to a specific format, type for example :
nconvert -out 5 file1.pic file2.jpg file3.tga
or
nconvert -out tiff file1.pic file2.jpg file3.tga
With a resize :
nconvert -out jpeg -ratio -resize 480 0 *.jpg
nconvert -out jpeg -resize 640 480 *.jpg
The input format is not necessary, it will be autodetected. If a problem occur
s, use the -in option.
Nconvert is able to transform images while converting:
* To convert GIF files to JPEG files :
nconvert -out jpeg -truecolors *.gif
* To convert JPEG files to GIF files :
nconvert -out gif -dither -colors 256 *.jpeg
* To resize :
nconvert -out png -resize 510 230 *.jpeg
nconvert -out png -ratio -resize 510 0 *.jpeg
nconvert -out png -ratio -resize 0 510 *.jpeg
nconvert -out png -resize 200% 200% *.jpeg
You can use it with images sequences.
For example, to convert the files file00.pic, file01.pic, ..., file10.pic an
d
we convert to jpeg format with the name pattern res0.jpg, res1.jpg, ... ty
pe :
nconvert -out jpeg -n 1 10 1 -o res#.jpg file##.pic
You can use % to specify source filename in dest filename.
For example, nconvert -out jpeg -o result_%.jpg file.tga
creates a file named result_file.jpg
Note for windows users: in batch files you must write %% instead of %. To by
pass this problem, you can use a nconvert script instead of a batch file.
You can control nconvert with a script, performing multiple sets of conversion
s on multiple sets of files, example:
### -out png -rtype lanczos -resize 200% 150%
screenshot1.bmp
screenshot2.bmp
screenshot3.bmp
### -out gif -rtype lanczos -resize 500% 500% -oil 10 -colours 32
F:\icons\smile.bmp
### -out bmp -rtype lanczos -resize 30% 30% -oil 2 -rotate_flag smooth -rota
te 45
selfportrait.png
mydog.png
Save this into a text file, for example "nc.txt", and then run nconvert with
this file as the only parameter: "nconvert nc.txt" .
Limitations:
Add text feature uses the Win32 API and is avaiable on Win32 only.
Some exotical image formats use external DLL's and are available on Win32 only
.
When using a script file, avoid multiple spaces in the conversion definitions,
they confuse the parser.
Converting huge images, or scaling up to a huge size requires much memory and
may not always work.
Notes for DOS users:
Since v4.90, nconvert is supported for DOS again. Is is a 32-bit DOS applicati
on, using the "DOS/32A Extender".
Also the NVIEW picture viewer had a DOS version, but was discontinued in 2002
at version 3.87. It is available bundled with old nconvert 3.87.
Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD Version:
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XnView requires Linux 2.0.x, XFree86-3.2 and Lesstif v0.91 or openMotif v2.1
.30
openMotif is available from the following URL's :
ftp://openmotif.opengroup.org/pub/openmotif/R2.1.30/binaries/metrolink/
Lesstif is available from the following URL's
http://www.lesstif.org/products/lesstif/
ftp://ftp.lesstif.org/pub/hungry/lesstif/bindist