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xv is a shareware program written by John Bradley to display and modify digital images under the X Window System.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 15 relations: Comparison of image viewers, GIF, Image editing, Image viewer, Lempel–Ziv–Welch, O'Reilly Media, OpenVMS, Patch (Unix), PNG, PostScript, Shareware, Sun Raster, Truevision TGA, Unix-like, X Window System.

  2. Image viewers
  3. X Window programs

Comparison of image viewers

This article presents a comparison of image viewers and image organizers which can be used for image viewing. Xv (software) and comparison of image viewers are image viewers.

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GIF

The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; or) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released on June 15, 1987.

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Image editing

Image editing encompasses the processes of altering images, whether they are digital photographs, traditional photo-chemical photographs, or illustrations.

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Image viewer

An image viewer or image browser is a computer program that can display stored graphical images; it can often handle various graphics file formats. Xv (software) and image viewer are graphics software stubs and image viewers.

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Lempel–Ziv–Welch

Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) is a universal lossless data compression algorithm created by Abraham Lempel, Jacob Ziv, and Terry Welch.

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O'Reilly Media, Inc. (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) is an American learning company established by Tim O'Reilly provides technical and professional skills development courses via an online learning platform.

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OpenVMS

OpenVMS, often referred to as just VMS, is a multi-user, multiprocessing and virtual memory-based operating system.

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Patch (Unix)

The computer tool patch is a Unix program that updates text files according to instructions contained in a separate file, called a patch file.

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PNG

Portable Network Graphics (PNG, officially pronounced, colloquially pronounced) is a raster-graphics file format that supports lossless data compression.

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PostScript

PostScript (often abbreviated as PS) is a page description language and dynamically typed, stack-based programming language.

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Shareware is a type of proprietary software that is initially shared by the owner for trial use at little or no cost.

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Sun Raster

Sun Raster was a raster graphics file format used on SunOS by Sun Microsystems.

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Truevision TGA

Truevision TGA, often referred to as TARGA, is a raster graphics file format created by Truevision Inc. (now part of Avid Technology).

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Unix-like

A Unix-like (sometimes referred to as UN*X or *nix) operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, although not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification.

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X Window System

The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems.

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See also

Image viewers

X Window programs

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xv_(software)