Graphics And Drawing Programs

bitmap: X Bitmap Editor

bitmap is a simple X bitmap editor; it is part of the X Window System distribution. Output is a standard X11 bitmap. For more information, please see the man page.

GIMP: The GNU Image Manipulation Program

The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

It is an extremely capable piece of software with many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, a expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, a image format converter, etc.

See Also:

• The Gimp Website

gv/mgv: Postscript and Pdf Viewer

gv and mgv allows the user to view and navigate through PostScript and PDF documents on an X display by providing a user interface for the ghostscript interpreter.

NOTE: gv has been deprecated as of RedHat^? 5 Linux. RH5 users can continue to use mgv instead.

ImageMagick: Graphics Editor

ImageMagick is a GUI grapics editor to modify graphics files of various formats. ImageMagick is also capable of generating animated images from a series of still images.

Some of the graphics formats supported by ImageMagick include:

• Microsoft Windows bitmap image
• CMYK
• G3 FAX
• GIF
• JPEG
• MPEG
• PNM
• PostScript level 1 and 2, and Encapsulated PostScript
• Quickdraw/PICT
• RGB
• Sun raster file
• X11 bitmap (xbm)
• X11 pixmap (xpm)
• X11 window dump (xwd)

See Also:

• the official ImageMagick web page

NetPBM: Graphics File Format Manipulation And Conversion Tools

NetPBM is a collection of command-line programs to convert various graphics image files to or from a variety of graphic formats.

Online manual pages are the only source of documentation available for this collection of programs.

tgif: X11 Figure/drawing Editor

tgif is a menu-driven tool that allows the user to draw and manipulate objects interactively under the X Window System.

Figures can be exported to a variety of formats, including:

• PostScript
• EPS
• GIF
• TIFF
• JPEG
• PNG
• Bitmap
• PDF

TGIF can also do some GIF animation.

See Also:

• TGIF website

Xfig: X11 Figure/drawing Editor

Xfig is a menu-driven tool that allows the user to draw and manipulate objects interactively under the X Window System.

Figures can be exported to a variety of formats, including:

• LaTeX
• PostScript
• Pic
• PiCTeX
• GIF
• PNG
• JPEG
• TIFF
• PCX
• PPM
• XBM (X bitmap)
• XPM (X pixmap)
• SVG

See Also:

* xfig website

xv: Graphics Viewer And Editor

xv is a GUI graphics viewer and editor. xv runs a bit faster than ImageMagick, but has a more limited number of supported graphics formats and editing capabilities.