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         File: LiView.zip
       Author: Philippe Thomas (tphilippe@sdv.fr)
      Release: 1.1 (12/03/97)
Compatibility: DR8.2
     Location: contrib/gfx/viewers
  Description: Multi-image viewer
        Notes: Needs the datatype library
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LiView is an image viewer of a special kind since it displays a
palette containing little representation of bigger pictures, aligned
in a grid. By this mean, you've got all images on screen and you can
easily choose which one to display.
  
It is possible to organize the mini-pics as you like on the palette,
and to save it. You can have as many opened palettes as available
memory.

When a big image is displayed, LiView gives you a zoom mode, where
the entire picture is zoomed to fit the current window size. It's 
fine when you want to see everything of a very big picture.


What's new for version 1.1 ?
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¥ drag'n'drop between two different palettes ;
¥ option to save the mini-pics with the palette ;
¥ option to open the pics in zoom mode ;
¥ option to display the name of the image file on the mini-pics ;
¥ in zoom mode, you can now zoom in/out by (shift-) clicking on the
  picture ;
¥ you can now change the size and the number of mini-pics on an
  existing palette ;
¥ you can now navigate through the mini-pics with the keyboard ;
  escape key closes image windows ;
¥ on a picture window, the zoom button places the window optimally
  on the screen, and keeps the ratio in zoom mode ;
¥ you can load images from the shell (ex. LiView *.gif) or by 
  dropping them on LiView's icon ;
¥ minimal size of the palette = size of a mini-pic ;
¥ correction of a nasty bug which crashes sometimes when creating
  a new palette.