Hello, for some special purposes I wrote a kind of an image viewer named
paul = _P_rogram zur _A_uswertung und _U_mwandlung von _L_aserbildern (for non German speakers: Program to evaluate and convert laser images). The background is that I take some pictures of crystals using a highspeed filmcamera which works with laser light. The intention is to get a "digital" film. Using a slide-scanner (Nikon LS-20) I scan the images by a program derived from SANE's xscanimage (I changed xscanimage to get PNG-images with special chunks I want to use in paul). So what is PAUL: Short: Yet another image viewer. Longer: - Special designed for *sequences* of images. - Works best with gray-scaled images, but can handle any 24-Bit images, off course (Remark: Gray scaled images are *displayed* green! It has technical reasons to use the other colors internally. Don't be afraid that your output will be green. It's normal monochrom image.) - GTK userinterface (this is work in progress, some features of paul are only available via command line ... the former flavour of paul) - available to do several transformations quiet in background (may be any console) - Because of using Imlib it is *fast* and can handle any image format. - May be it's possible to do all the image processing stuff of paul with GIMP. But the special features are easier available and designed for only this special purpose (may be I write some parts of paul as plug-in for gimp). The function to cut parts of an image is (that means will be because it isn't finished yet) better, i.e. more minute than this one of the gimp, because it is possible to posittion the cutting box via entering pixel coordinates ... yet another (not seen by me) philosophy of cutting an image. - May be you can view your images using XV, but paul is free. It's no problem to release paul under GPL. I don't want to compete with any other image viewer like xv or display, but I don't use them since several month. - Yet another userinterface: Paul works with the following menu structure: File: (what would you expect under this item :)) This Image: Operation to single image Marked Images: Operation on all marked images All Images: Operation on all loaded images Parameters: Set global parameters for the tree operation types - There are bugs, there are many bugs, I expect. Some parts are not finished yet (the rubber box to cut images) - There is in fact no documentation. There is an old documentation from an old command line driven version of paul in German. Im sure that there will be no English documentation, because this program was designed for German native speakers at my working group and parts of this documentation will go into my theses. If there will be a greater resonance I could think about English documentation but not before October next year. Why do I want to put paul into Debian? - May be there is need for such a thing? - I want to do more than only package things. - May be someone can use some ideas of paul? - May be that more people can detect more bugs and I can make paul more stable. Please tell me if there is some interest in such a program. Sorry, it isn't available at this time via ftp to let you have a personal impression. If someone is interested personally, I will make it available soon (it need some overwork -- configure stuff). Kind regards Andreas.