Converting images with Kim
PICTURE MANAGER
Author(s): PETER BUBENIK, MARCEL HILZINGER
With a Konqueror-integrated service menu called Kim, you can modify and manipulate image files through a handy context menu.
Whereas Windows has let applications add functions to the Explorer file manager for some time, KDE version 3.2 was the first version of KDE to give users this ability. KDE 3.3 included a version of Konqueror with a separate context menu for image files. Thanks to this menu, users can right click to view, rotate, and scale images directly from within Konqueror. The KDE Image Menu ( Kim) by Charles Bouveyron [1] takes this feature a step farther. Kim gives you far more options than a Windows user can expect. The context menu allows users to convert, compress, rotate, crop, and mail images in various formats via Konqueror. The program can even create an MPEG clip from an image directory. Kim draws on the functionality of the ImageMagick [2] image manipulation program and Mpegtools [3]. Kim also integrates Kalbum [4], a KDE program designed for creating Web galleries and photo albums.
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