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1. AVAILABILITY
   1. Licensing Information
      1. Site Licenses
   2. Copyright Notice
2. RELEASE NOTES
3. OVERVIEW
4. THE IMAGE WINDOW
   1. DISPLAYING PIXEL VALUES
   2. SELECTION RECTANGLE
   3. CROPPING
   4. ZOOMING
   5. MULTI-PAGE DOCUMENTS
   6. IMAGE EDITING
      1. Pixel Editing and Line Drawing
      2. Pixel Smudging
5. THE CONTROL WINDOW
   1. RESIZING COMMANDS
   2. ROTATE/FLIP COMMANDS
   3. THE DISPLAY MENU
      1. Dithering Commands
      2. Color Allocation Commands
   4. ROOT DISPLAY MODES
   5. THE 24/8 BIT MENU
   6. IMAGE ALGORITHMS
   7. CROPPING COMMANDS
   8. IMAGE CUT AND PASTE COMMANDS
   9. THE PAD COMMAND
      1. Pad Methods
      2. Image Size Dials
      3. Opaque-ness
   10. TEXT ANNOTATION
   11. THE GRAB COMMAND
   12. WORKING WITH MULTIPLE FILES
       1. Operating a List Window
       2. The File Commands
       3. Image Reloading
   13. THE WINDOWS MENU
   14. OTHER COMMANDS
6. THE INFO WINDOW
   1. OVERVIEW
   2. THE FIELDS
   3. STATUS LINES
7. THE COLOR EDITOR
   1. OVERVIEW
   2. THE COLORMAP EDITING TOOL
      1. Using the Dial Controls
      2. Colormap Editing Commands
   3. THE HSV MODIFICATION TOOLS
      1. Hue Remapping Controls
      2. The White Remapping Control
      3. The Saturation Control
      4. The Intensity Graph
   4. THE RGB MODIFICATION TOOL
   5. THE COLOR EDITOR CONTROLS
8. THE VISUAL SCHNAUZER
   1. WHAT'S A VISUAL SCHNAUZER?
   2. OPERATING THE SCHNAUZER
      1. Generating Image Icons
      2. Changing Directories
      3. Scrolling the Schnauzer
      4. Selecting Files
      5. File Management
   3. THE COMMANDS
9. THE TEXTVIEW WINDOW
   1. OVERVIEW
      1. ASCII Mode
      2. Hex Mode
   2. THE COMMENT WINDOW
10. THE LOAD WINDOW
11. THE SAVE WINDOW
    1. COLOR CHOICES
    2. FORMAT NOTES
12. THE POSTSCRIPT WINDOW
13. EXTERNAL PROGRAMS
    1. BGGEN
    2. XCMAP
    3. XVPICTOPPM
    4. CJPEG AND DJPEG
    5. VDCOMP
14. MODIFYING XV BEHAVIOR
    1. COMMAND LINE OPTIONS OVERVIEW
    2. GENERAL OPTIONS
    3. IMAGE SIZING OPTIONS
    4. COLOR ALLOCATION OPTIONS
    5. 8/24-BIT OPTIONS
    6. ROOT WINDOW OPTIONS
    7. WINDOW OPTIONS
    8. IMAGE MANIPULATION OPTIONS
    9. MISCELLANEOUS OPTIONS
    10. COLOR EDITOR RESOURCES
        1. Huemap Resources
        2. Whtmap Resources
        3. Satval Resource
        4. Graf Resources
        5. Other Resources
    11. WINDOW CLASSES
15. CREDITS
    1. The Hall of Fame
    2. THE BETA TESTERS
    3. MISCELLANEOUS RAMBLINGS

APPENDICES

• COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
• X RESOURCES
  1. SIMPLE RESOURCES
  2. COLOR EDITOR RESOURCES
  3. Pad Command Resources
• MOUSE AND KEYBOARD USAGE
  1. MOUSE USAGE IN THE IMAGE WINDOW
     1. Mouse Usage in Selection Rectangle
  2. NORMAL KEYBOARD EQUIVALENTS
     1. Image Window Keys
  3. VISUAL SCHNAUZER KEYS
• RGB & HSV COLORSPACES
• COLOR ALLOCATION IN XV
  1. THE PROBLEM WITH PSEUDOCOLOR DISPLAYS
  2. XV'S DEFAULT COLOR ALLOCATION ALGORITHM
  3. 'PERFECT' COLOR ALLOCATION
  4. ALLOCATING READ-WRITE COLORS
• THE DIVERSITY ALGORITHM
  1. PICKING THE MOST 'IMPORTANT' COLORS
  2. THE ORIGINAL DIVERSITY ALGORITHM
  3. THE MODIFIED DIVERSITY ALGORITHM
• ADDING OTHER IMAGE FORMATS TO XV
  1. WRITING CODE FOR READING A NEW FILE FORMAT
     1. Error Handling
     2. Hooking it up to xv
  2. ADDING CODE FOR WRITING A NEW FILE FORMAT
     1. Writing Complex Formats
• ADDING ALGORITHMS TO XV
  1. ADDING AN ALGORITHM

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