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IDA(1)			Image viewing and editing program		  IDA(1)

NAME
     ida - image viewing and editing program

SYNOPSIS
     ida [options] file ...

DESCRIPTION
     Ida  is a small and fast application for viewing images. Some basic editing
     functions are available too.

     You can specify any number of image files as arguments on the command line.
     Or you can read a single image from stdin by specifying "-" as  only  argu-
     ment ("xwd | ida -" works nice for screenshots).

OPTIONS
     Ida understands the usual toolkit options (-geometry + friends). Additional
     options are:

     -help  print a short help text

     -pcd n
	    Pick size for PhotoCD images (n = 1 .. 5, default 3).

     -debug
	    Enable  debug messages. Also has the side effect that error messages
	    are displayed on stderr only and not as message box.

GETTING STARTED
   Mouse functions
     With the left mouse button you can creates and edit a selection  rectangle.
     The middle button is used to start drag'n'drop operations. The right button
     brings up the control window with menus, toolbar and file list.

   Keyboard Shortcuts
     Many keyboard shortcuts used by xv are available in ida too. If you are fa-
     miliar with xv if should be easy for you to get started with ida.

     All  available  keyboard shortcuts are also listed in the menus of the con-
     trol window. The most important ones are listed below:

     SPACE  Next file.

     BACKSPACE
	    Previous file.

     LEFT_ARROW, RIGHT_ARROW, UP_ARROW, DOWN_ARROW
	    Scrolling (hold Ctrl key for big steps).

     +/-    Zoom in/out.

     q	    Quit.

   Supported image formats
     Read:  BMP (uncompressed), PhotoCD, PPM, XBM, XPM,  XWD,  GIF,  JPEG,  PNG,
	    TIFF.  The	last  four are supported using the usual libraries, i.e.
	    you need to have them installed at compile time.

     Write:
	    JPEG, PNG, PostScript, PPM, TIFF.

   Using drag'n'drop
     Ida is a motif application and thus supports the motif drag'n'drop protocol
     in both directions. The xdnd protocol is supported too, but only in one di-
     rection (receive drops).

     Ida uses the middle mouse button to start a drag'n'drop operation	(as  the
     motif  style  guide  suggests). This works for the main window and the file
     buttons within the file browser.

     Motif applications should have absolutely no problems to  deal  with  ida's
     drag'n'drop  support.  You can drop images into some netscape 4.x window --
     it imply works. Mozilla accepts motif drops too.

     Interoperation with gnome / gtk is good. I can drag files from ida to eeyes
     and visa versa without problems. File drops from gmc  into  ida  work  just
     fine too.

     Interoperation  with  KDE	is  bad.  cut+paste  works  most  of  the  time,
     drag'n'drop often doesn't. The X11 selection handling of the Qt toolkit has
     a few design bugs and sucks. Basically the  troll	guys  didn't  understand
     what the TARGETS target is good for and violate the ICCCM specs by ignoring
     it.

SEE ALSO
     xwd(1)

AUTHOR
     Gerd Hoffmann <gerd@kraxel.org>

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright (c) 2002-2012 Gerd Hoffmann <gerd@kraxel.org>

     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it un-
     der  the  terms  of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
     Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at  your  option)
     any later version.

     This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
     ANY  WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FIT-
     NESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for  more
     details.

     You  should  have	received  a copy of the GNU General Public License along
     with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675
     Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

IDA 2.09		   (c) 2001-2012 Gerd Hoffmann			  IDA(1)

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