ImageView - Alpha release

Download here.

There are quite a few variants of various existing image formats and more recent
formats that cannot be viewed easily on RISC OS.

Hopefully !ImageView will go some way to make more image formats available
on RISC OS.

It’s a simple front end onto the ImageMagick libraries so supports reading all
the formats that this supports apart from the ones that need an external
converter.

A few examples are webp, svg, wmf, djvu, jpeg, png, gif, tiff, bmp, psd, ppm and tga.
Plus a lot more.

The image can also be exported in these formats – jpeg, png, gif, tiff, bmp, psd, ppm,
tga and RISC OS sprite.

It can also be used to create a preview image of any Truetype, OpenType or Postscript
Type 1 fonts.

It can also be used to create a preview image of any Truetype, OpenType or Postscript Type 1 fonts.

Oooh! Clicks link… 6.3MB?! I remember the old days when RISC OS programs were a sensible size.

RISC OS programs were a sensible size

Native RISC OS programs still are fairly compact, aren’t they?

It was to that very point I was alluding.

To be fair, imagemagick is a beast – it’s not an image convertor it’s THE image convertor.

To be fair, imagemagick is a beast – it’s not an image convertor it’s THE image convertor.

It’s a good job I didn’t upload the version with pdf/postcript and raw/dng support. That version is double the size. It needs a 30MB wimpslot just to load on to the icon bar.

30Mb ?? hm I have 854Mb free, who cares :)
Is there a little chance I can dl the version with pdf raw support ?

Is there a little chance I can dl the version with pdf raw support ?

I’ve split them up into seperate applications.

!RawView for viewing RAW images. Mainly produced by digital cameras.
Download from here.

!GhostView for viewing PDF/PostScript files.
Download from here.

The functionality is not complete but hopefully they will be useful. Both only allow saving the image as a Sprite.
To navigate in !GhostView use the PageUp/PageDown keys.

Just wondering can these be used from the command line?

Just wondering can these be used from the command line?

Not yet. The aim is to be able to do both.

You can already download the command line only albeit older versions. !DCraw and !ImageMagick are in !Packman and !GhostScr is available from the mwsoftware site.

So what would it take for the ImageMagick library to be enhanced with input options for sprites and drawfiles?

After all, one can drop both types of file into Ovation Pro for Windows and get them correctly rendered, though of course David Pilling’s code may be no more adaptable than existing RISC OS input code. Just a thought.

So what would it take for the ImageMagick library to be enhanced with input options for sprites and drawfiles?

Support for 24 bit sprites is already there. The spritefile needs to end in ‘/spr’ for it to be recognised with the current version.
As long as the input file can be converted to a sprite then it can be saved in any of the supported formats.