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Vis > image_printing > Image Manipulation
Image Manipulation
( - Formats - Creating
- Viewing - Converting
- Editing - Printing -
List -)
Formats
- Descriptions (SGI-RGB, GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PhotoCD, PostScript)
Creating images
- From NCARG metafiles ( meta2rgb, or see "man ncgm2rgb" )
- From GrADS metafiles (
- From the screen (imgsnap, snapshot)
- From Iris Explorer , use the WriteSGI or AnimateImages module
- Hint: if you plan to animate to videotape , make sure your images are 590x430
- use imginfo to get information about your images
Viewing
- Summary table, with links to several viewers, including:
Converting
- Interactive Utilities :
- Summary table, with links to
- XV, ImageMagick, ImgView, Compression Viewer, and BIT
- Command-Line Utilities
- Bitmapped images
- ImageMagick : convert
- SGI tools (see man pages): togif, fromgif
- Others : rle
- To/From PostScript
- fmepsi (PS-->epsi converter ; preferred
over ps2epsi!)
(currently in /home/hnv/pub/, man page in progress; enter "fmepsi" with no arguments to see Usage message) - SGI tools (see man pages):
- ps2epsi/pstoepsi, ps2rgb, ps2gif
- ImageMagick : convert
- Framemaker PostScript
- Framemaker cannot import PostScript files (encapsulated) created by Framemaker. To use a Frame-produced PS file in Frame, import it into Adobe Illustrator and resave it as an RGB EPS file.
- [ GFDL only: The Illustration Group can do this for you. Send Email to Cathy (csr) or Jeff (jnv) telling them where the file is. They will transform it and tell you where to pick it up. ]
Editing
- XV, ImageMagick, ImageWorks, Desi, Xpaint, CLRpaint, giftrans, rgblegal, and Icop
Printing
- Tips when converting to PostScript, using previewers, sending output to the printer, and a color test pattern
Programs
- Available Utilities :
- BIT - image editor
- CLRpaint - full-screen image editor
- Compression Viewer - see the effects of JPEG compression
- Desi - image composition program
- fmepsi - utility to convert PS -> epsi, massage epsi for (esp. for FrameMaker)
- giftrans - make a color in a GIF transparent for WWW pages
- Ghostview - PostScript file viewer
- Icop - adjust images for output to video
- imginfo - display image information
- ImageMagick - set of image manipulation programs
- ImageWorks - image manipulation program
- ImgSnap - capture a region of the screen as an image file
- ImgView - image viewer
- MGv - PostScript file viewer
- pscopies - modifies a PostScript file to make it quickly print multiple times, see man pscopies
- rgblegal - command-line version of Icop
- rle - add RLE compression to SGI images
- Xpaint - image painting program
- Xpsview - PostScript file viewer
- XV - image viewer with processing capability