Some common graphics viewers

There are 100s of graphics file formats around. See our Some Common Graphics File Formats page for a list of just a few.

The easiest way to view a file's contents is to click on its icon. This should launch an appropriate program to view that type of file, but there may be alternative programs. Here's a list of some viewers that we have

• evince - displays postscript and PDF files
• kghostview - displays postscript and PDF files
• kpdf - displays postscript and PDF files
• xpdf - displays postscript and PDF files
• gs - displays postscript and PDF files
• acroread - displays PDF files
• xfig - displays FIG files
• xdvi - displays DVI files produced by LaTeX
• gwenview - displays folders of image files (useful when browsing)
• Gimp - loads, saves and manipulates most image formats
• Matlab - loads its own files. Has limited support for jpeg, etc.