MAPIVI(1)

💖 MAPIVI — like, the manual, bestie 💖

okay so this is the MAPIVI(1) page, from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section. And lowkey the name itself is a whole origin story: Mapivi = Martin's Picture Viewer. cute, right? 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

Mapivi — Picture Viewer and Organizer 🦋

and yes, Mapivi literally means Martin's Picture Viewer. no cap. 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so picture this: a JPEG picture viewer slash image management system, with full meta info support, written in Perl/Tk, and it runs on UNIX, Mac OS X and Windows. that's the whole vibe. 🌈

so the author wrote mapivi just for himself, because he needed an image viewer that could also display and edit meta infos of JPEG pictures — like EXIF, JPEG comments and IPTC/IIM infos. and as a hobby photographer he was mostly obsessed (understandably) with the EXIF infos — think timestamp, camera model, focal length, exposure time, aperture, etc. — plus the ability to add and edit IPTC infos and JPEG comments. but he also wanted to rename pictures according to their internal date/time, and do lossless rotation, lossless cropping and other stuff. main character feature list honestly. 👑

mapivi can be found here: http://mapivi.de.vu (that's the link to the mapivi site) or, if that one won't work: http://herrmanns-stern.de (the real site) — and http://sourceforge.net/projects/mapivi for the download. 🫶

he would be happy to receive some feedback (like, e.g. on which OS mapivi works 👀), bugfixes, patches or suggestions about mapivi. so if you got thoughts, send them fr fr.

Copyright (c) 2002 - 2016 Martin Herrmann All rights reserved.

feel free to redistribute. enjoy! 💜

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🎀 USAGE 🎀

the synopsis, verbatim, no edits:

mapivi [-i ] [file|folder]

to display a certain picture use:

mapivi picture.jpg

mapivi will generate and display all pictures in the folder as thumbnails ✨. and the given picture will be displayed in original size, or zoomed to fit the window (the picture frame).

to view a folder containing pictures use:

mapivi ~/pics/

mapivi will generate and display all pictures in the given folder as thumbnails. 🌸

to start mapivi with the import wizard:

mapivi -i

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🦋 KEYS 🦋

mapivi is controlled by the following keys — and see also the menu Help->Keys, because that list is generated straight from the source code and is always actual. iykyk. 👑

• Space, Page-Down — show the next picture in folder ⭐
• BackSpace, Page-Up — show the previous picture in folder ⭐
• Escape — Iconify Mapivi (Boss-Key :) 💀
• Cursor-up, -down, -left, -right — scroll the picture, if it's bigger than the Canvas
• Shift-Cursor-up, -down, -left, -right — move to the border of the picture, if it's bigger than the Canvas
• q — Quit Mapivi

for all the other key bindings, go look at the menu Help->Keys. that's the plug. 🔥

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💅 MOUSE 💅

try the right mouse button in the thumbnail picture list for a popup menu — you can copy, move, rename, rotate or delete pictures, open a new folder, add or remove comments, or exit Mapivi. one click, so many options, obsessed. ✨

use the buttons to add, edit or remove JPG comments, or to display all EXIF infos. 🌸

and if you hold the mouse over the buttons or labels, a help message will pop up — or at least at most of them :) 🙈

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okay bestie that's the whole page!! this shipped with perl v5.34.0 and it's dated 2022-03-15. go forth and organize ur pics, u got this 💖🫶✨