                       Nview, Nconvert & View2 v2.95
                              XnView v1.17

                   Copyright (c) 1991-2000 Pierre-E Gougelet
                           All Rights Reserved.



DISCLAIMER
==========

  You are granted the right to use and to make an unlimited number
    of copies of the freeware version of this software.

  Commercial use and distribution is not authorized without agreement.

  Use this program at your own risk, I do not provide any warranty 
    about it.


  This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.
  This software is based in part on the work of the Group 42 Inc.
  This software is based on compression library of Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.


Homepage
========

E-Mail:         webmaster@xnview.com
                pierre.g@wanadoo.fr

Web site :      http://www.xnview.com
                http://www.xnview.fr.st
                http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pierre.g

Download :      http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pierre.g/download
                http://www.multimania.com/xnview/download



Platforms
=========

  ATARI ST, STe, Falcon, TT and compatible
  PC x86 DOS
  PC x86 Windows 3.1x, 95, 98, NT & 2000
  PC x86 Linux v2.x (X Windows & Lesstif/Motif)
  PC x86 FreeBSD v3.x (X Windows & Lesstif/Motif)
  Silicon Graphics IRIX v5.2 and above
  Sun Solaris v2.5.1 and above
  Solaris x86 v8.0
  HP-UX v11.0 and above
  AIX v4.2 and above
  BeOS v5.0 and above


NVIEW
=====

Nview is a multi-format viewer. 

  Type nview -help for available option. 


About Nview for PC under DOS:
-----------------------------

  Nview is VESA compatible and works in 8,15,16 bits and truecolor mode.
    The only mode available is 320x200x8 if your video card doesn't 
    support Vesa mode. 
  
  For a complete description of the available mode on the display, type
    nview -help (and use it with -d option's)
  
  For example with my Diamond S3 864, "nview -d3 back.gif" use the 640x480x15 display.
  
  With the -p<width>x<height>x<bits>, you take the best display who match arguments. 
    (Example: nview -p640x480x24 back.gif)
    -p0x0x0 choose the best display for the bitmap. 


About Nview for X Windows:
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  Nview take the default visual for displaying the bitmap. You can use 
    -visual id (id is the visual number seeing with nview -help).
  
  By default, nview display the bitmap and wait for a mouse click or Escape. 
    With the -w, Nview create one window per bitmap. 

  Nview works with pipe, in this case the input format must be specified: 
    cat img.tga | nview -f2 stdin


NCONVERT
========

Nconvert is the multi-format converter. 

  Type nconvert -help for available option. 


  To convert files in 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. If a problem occurs, use the -in option. 
  
  Nconvert is able to make transformation

    * 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 tga -resize 510 230 *.jpeg
        nconvert -out tga -ratio -resize 510 0 *.jpeg
        nconvert -out tga -ratio -resize 0 510 *.jpeg
        nconvert -out tga -resize 200% 200% *.jpeg
    
  You can use it with image's sequence. 
    For example, we take the file00.pic, file01.pic, ..., file10.pic and 
      we convert in jpeg format with the form res0.jpg, res1.jpg, ... type :
        nconvert -out jpeg -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
      create a filename result_file.jpg


XnView (Extended Nview)
=======================

About XnView for X Windows:
---------------------------

  XnView requires OSF/Motif 1.2 or later. 
  
  Type xnview -help for available option. 
  
  XnView take the default visual for displaying the bitmap. You can specify 
    an X visual id (in hexadecimal) with '-visualid id'.
  
  
  Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD Version:
  -----------------------------
  
    XnView requires Linux 2.0.x, XFree86-3.2 and Lesstif 0.91 or openMotif 2.1.30
    
    Lesstif is available from the following URL's

	http://www.lesstif.org/products/lesstif/
	ftp://ftp.lesstif.org/pub/hungry/lesstif/


  Credits:
  -------
    Solaris version : Tobias Oetiker
    HP-UX version   : Philippe Choquert
    AIX version     : Philippe Choquert


About XnView for Windows (x86):
-------------------------------

  XnView for windows requires Windows 3.x with Win32s, or Windows 95/98/NT/2000. 


  Windows 3.1x users note:
  -----------------------
    You'll need the last release of win32s for Microsoft Windows 3.1x 
      and Windows for Workgroup 3.1x. 

    If there is a file called 'win32s.ini' in the directory \windows\system, 
      you already have win32s. This file contains the version information. 
      If the version number is equal or greater than 1.30.172 (v1.30c), 
      you don't have to reinstall win32s. 

    Win32s v1.30c can be downloaded via 
      ftp://ftp.rmc.edu/pub/windows16/win32s13.exe

  
  Credits:
  -------
    German translation       : Axel C. Burgbacher, Helmut Mueller
    Italian translation      : Alexandro F.Proietti, Armando R. La Mura
    Russian translation      : Igor Alikin, Alexander Gorbylev
    Spanish translation      : Jorge A. Montes Prez
    Swedish translation      : Mrten Mellberg
    Estonian translation     : Ahti Kaskpeit
    Dutch translation        : Michiel Oosterhagen
    Czech translation        : Petr Bohdan
    Portuguese (Brazilian) translation : Paulo Neto
    Portuguese translation   : Antnio Eduardo Marques
    Hungarian translation    : Jozsef Herczeg
    Danish translation       : Allan Bergmann Jensen
    Polish translation       : Sergiusz Klimkiewicz
    Greek translation        : Symeon Charalabides
    Bulgarian translation    : Denis Ivajlov
    Slovak translation       : Lucas Sivak
    Japanese translation     : Yong Wei
    Slovene translation      : Grega Fajdiga
    Byelorussian translation : Alexander Gorbylev


About Unix version:
------------------

  You will need to set the 
    * LD_LIBRARY_PATH (Irix, Linux, FreeBSD) 
    * SHLIB_PATH (HP-UX)
    * LIBPATH (AIX)
    * LIBRARY_PATH (BeOS)
    environment variable with the path where the libraries are. 

  By default 'install' put the libraries in /usr/local/lib. 


About LuraWave & LuraDocument format:
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  All images compressed with XnView LuraWave PlugIn should only be used for private 
    or evaluation purposes. Any other corporate or commercial use needs to licenced by LuraTech GmbH.

  By compressing an image using the XnView LuraWave PlugIn, you accept this license agreement.

  LuraTech Homepage : http://www.luratech.com
