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About fbida
The fbida project contains a few applications for viewing and editing images, with the main focus being photos. The applications are:
- fbi
- This is a image viewer for the linux framebuffer console.
- fbgs
- A wrapper script for viewing ps/pdf files on the framebuffer console using fbi.
- ida
- This is a X11 application (Motif based) for viewing images. Some basic editing functions are available too.
- exiftran
- command line tool to do lossless transformations of JPEG images. Works much like jpegtran, but unlike jpegtran it does not ignore the EXIF data ;)
- thumbnail.cgi
- Small and fast CGI script (written in C) to extract EXIF thumbnails from jpeg images and send them to the web browser.
Brief history
fbi and ida originally started as two completely separate projects. Some day in 2002 I was bored writing the image decoding stuff twice, so I decided to make them use the same code for that. Early in 2004 I finally joined the two projects into one, so they actually build out of the same source tree now. And I decided to join the two names as well and call the united project "fbida".