.TH 1 Introduction
This package contains
.B Nview
and
.B Nconvert
.BR v3.87 ,
and
.B XnView
.BR 1.50 ,
a set of utilities for viewing and converting graphics files.
These utilities support more than 320 graphic formats in reading
and 38 in writing
(Jpeg, Targa, TDI, Softimage bitmap, RGB Sgi, Tiff, Gif, ... ).
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.I Nview/Nconvert
are shell utilities.
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.I XnView
lets you use
.I Nview
and
.I Nconvert
with X-windows.
Other than viewing and converting, it offers the following capabilities : 
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   to resize
   to adjust luminosity, brigthness, ...
   to modify number of colors
   to apply filters (blur, moyenne, emboss, ...)
   to apply effects (lentille, vague, ...)
   Slide Show
   Picture browser
   Batch convert
   Thumbnail create
   Screen capture
   ...
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.NH 2 DISCLAIMER
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You are granted the right to use and to make an unlimited number of copies
of the freeware version of this software.
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Commercial use and distribution is not authorized without agreement.
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Use this program at your own risk,
I do not provide any warranty about it.
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This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.
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This software is based in part on the work of the Group 42 Inc.
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This software is based on the compression library
of Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.
.NH 2 Copyright
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Copyright (c) 1991-2001 Pierre-E Gougelet.
All Rights Reserved.
