MAKEXVPICS(1)

💅 MAKEXVPICS — the makexvpics glow-up

okay bestie, so this is makexvpics, and it lives in the Graphics Utilities part of your manual, section 1. it's the little tool that makes your pictures look cute before you even open them, and honestly? iconic. ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

makexvpics — create xv-compatible thumbnails

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

makexvpics [ -fhRv ] picture_file_or_dir [ ... ]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so makexvpics creates and/or updates thumbnails that are compatible with xv, zgv, and Gimp 💖 — think GIFs, JPEGs, all your fave lil picture files.

it's giving "set it and forget it", because the whole point is that you can keep your thumbnails fresh in a non-interactive way. no clicking, no window, no drama. just vibes. 🧚

the formats it supports right now are:

• GIF
• JPEG
• PNG
• PBM/PGM/PPM
• mrf
• BMP
• TGA
• PCX

that's the whole roster, no cap. 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -f — force those thumbnails to be updated, bestie. normally it's lowkey lazy about it and only updates when there's no thumbnail yet, or when the picture file is newer than the thumbnail. -f says "idc, redo it." 🔥
• -h — give usage help. it's the "help me help you" flag. 🙈
• -R — recurse into subdirectories. it goes down the folder tree like it's exploring. 🌸
• -v — be verbose. this one echoes the names of the files that are being updated — or rather, the basename's of them. so you get a lil running commentary. 💬

💀 BUGS 💀

It's pretty slow.

yeah that's the whole bug. no notes. 😭 it's just. slow. fr fr.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Russell Marks (rus@forfree.at). absolute legend behavior. 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• xv(1)
• zgv(1)

Version 1.0.1, dated the 4th July, 1999 — yeah she's vintage, she's a classic, and she still slays. mwah. 💖✨🎀🦋