Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnewsc!vgopal
From: vgopal@cbnewsc.att.com (venu.p.gopal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Looking for GIF viewer with a ZOOM capability
Summary: VUIMAGE will do this
Message-ID: <1990Jun5.204454.22721@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 5 Jun 90 20:44:54 GMT
References: <1990Jun4.093804.887@mdcbbs.com>
Organization: AT&T
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In article <1990Jun4.093804.887@mdcbbs.com> suskind@mdcbbs.com (Barry A. Suskind, Knights who say NI!) writes:

>what I would like is a GIF viewer that would load ALL the image only
>displaying the maximum number of pixels available for my resolution system,
>leaving the remaining off screen for me to scroll onto the screen with the
>arrow keys. Is there something like this available?

VUIMAGE can Zoom and Pan over the entire image - however, it reads from
disk when necessary and doesn't load the entire image into memory -
not surprising, since a large image may be many megabytes long...and the
program requires only 128K.  Reading from disk, however, does make the
panning slow for GIF files (GIF files are sequential access) and the panning
is coarse to allow for the slowness.  TIFF files are much faster in panning.

Zooming upto 999% and downto 1% is possible - you can Pan after Zooming
in/out.  You can get VUIMAGE from SIMTEL or a comp.binaries.ibm.pc and most 
bulletin boards.

Venu P. Gopal   UUCP: ..!att!cbnewsc!vgopal   Internet: vgopal@cbnewsc.att.com