picture editor for windows and unix ?

[lennart]

Is there someone that know of an image editing program
that:

1) is freeware
2) available both for MS-Windows and Unix-machines?

/Lennart

[plenderj]

Well it would have to be written in c/c++ or java (or some other odd language) and be compiled at the first runtime on the system.

But why would you want a multiplatform image editor ?
A decent image editor should export to commonly used formats ; eg. bitmaps, jpegs, gifs etc.

- jamie

[lennart]

on our company we are using PC-computers as well as unix stations.
For instance our cad-systems are running on both.
The picture editor we want to be able to draw simple lines and circles and text in picturefiles of the drawings in the cad-systems. And it is important that the user interface is the same if you change from one machine to another.
But it could of course be one program built in one way to fit PC-platform and in another way to fit the unix maschines.
There is for instance a program called GIMP that has one version for both platforms. But that one is to complex for my purpose.

[plenderj]

Well I would write it in java, and install the JDK on each computer.
Then to run the app they would run a batch file called, for example, "image.bat" which would look something like the following :


@echo "Compiling ..."
@javac ImageEdit.java
@echo "Running ..."
@java ImageEdit


Unless you used applets on an intranet .... but then you'd be using java, so you might aswell write the full app instead :)

[Zaei]

Get The Gimp. It comes with most linux distributions, and is downloadable for Windows. Not to mention that its very good (and its free).

Z.