Re: [tlug] Irfanview Via Wine

["Lyle H Saxon" <llletters@example.com>]

On 7/1/07, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:
> Yes.  It *is* a command-line editor.  If you know what algorithms you
> want to apply, you can script it; it's excellent for web pipelines.
> See http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/ for lots of examples.  It also
> has a command called "display", which allows you to apply the
> individual commands to the image being displayed.  It's not a paint
> program, but there are many operations you can do interactively using
> the WIMP interface.

Thanks!  I think it was recommended to me way back when, but I got
sidetracked with GQView and other things.  This time I think better
study up on it.  Thanks for the link.

> One problem is that it is a major resource pig.  It only has one
> depth for in-memory images, which IIRC can be 16, 32, or 64 bpp (multiple
> of 4 because of the alpha channel).  Running out of memory on a 1GB
> system is not uncommon.

Doesn't sound like something my 512MB computer will like very much,
but I'll see how it goes and start dreaming of 2GB memory and another
computer.  Sigh... I must be getting old... the thought of ever more
hardware is beginning to make me tired.

Lyle