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Copyright
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    gtnpic - Creates a thumbnail index of images.
    Copyright (C) 1997 Willie Daniel <gith@quicklink.net>

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under 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 FITNESS 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.

    Original "tnpic" program was Copyright (C) 1993-1996 Russell Marks,
    and was also distributed under the GPL.


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About gtnpic
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"gtnpic" is based upon "tnpic" by Russell Marks. "tnpic" was originally
included with his "zgv" program but later dropped because ("it
was (IMHO) obsolete and a ridiculous mess" - Russell).

"gtnpic" is an attempt to clean up the original tnpic and maybe add some
new features along the way.

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Requirements
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At the very minimum, the Independant JPEG Group's JPEG software is
required for compiling. (libjpeg) All Linux systems I've ever seen
have this installed.

If you don't have libjpeg, full source and documentation can be found
at ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/

In the future, other libs may be required as support for more image
types are added. ( PNG, etc...)


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Compiling
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Check the Makefile for reasonable defaults for your system.

$ make
$ make install

A binary is included in case you don't want to recompile it.

$ ldd gtnpic
        libjpeg.so.6a => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.6a
        libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5

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Usage
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gtnpic [-vh] [-q nn] [-b bgcolor] [-o outfile] file_1...file_n

    -v    version
    -h    help
    -q    sets the quality of the output jpg image.
          a number between 60 to 80 is reasonable.
          default is 70.
    -b    sets the background color for the output jpg image.
          colors can be one of "black", "white", or "gray".
          default is gray.
    -o    sets the filename of the output jpg image.
          default is 00_index.jpg.


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Contact Info
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	Email: gith@quicklink.net
    Web: http://users.quicklink.net/~gith/

The latest version of gtnpic should always be available from my homepage.
Feel free to send any comments, requests, or suggestions.






