# OpenGL Imageviewer

Markus
Leuthold

    kusi _AT forum dot titlis _dot org

The Kipi imageviewer is a very fast and flexible tool for viewing images, based on OpenGL

KDE
Kipi

# Introduction

The KIPI imageviewer allows to display a selection of images and to do basic operations, such as rotation, zooming or panning. The usage of the viewer is only based on keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures. It was placed emphasis mainly on speed in displaying as well as fast access to the functions.

## Image Access

Next Image

  - Scrollwheel Down

  - Down/Right Arrow

  - Space

  - Key N

  - PgDown

Previous Image

  - Scrollwheel Up

  - Up/Left Arrow

  - Key P

  - PgUp

Quit

  - Esc

## Display

Toggle fullscreen/normal

  On startup, an image is displayed in fullscreen mode by default. It can be changed to windowed mode

  - Key F

Toggle scrollwheel action

  Turning the scrollwheel either proceeds to the next image or zooms into the image

  - Key C

Rotation

  The rotation is only temporary and not saved to the file

  - Key R

Reset view

  - double click

Original size

  Each pixel of the image corresponds to a pixel of the screen

  - Key O

## Zooming

  - move mouse up/down while pressing the right mouse button

  - scrollwheel (in case you toggled the scrollwheel action)

  - plus/minus

  - Ctrl + scrollwheel

## Panning

  - move mouse while pressing the left mouse button