---
name: "kview"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "kview"
version: "4:3.5.9-3+lenny3"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/kview"
---

# kview(1)

KDE Image Viewer

## NAME

kview - KDE Image Viewer

## SYNOPSIS

**kview** \[*Qt-options*\] \[*KDE-options*\] \[*URL*\]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **KView** KDE Application. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**KView** is an image viewer for the KDE desktop. You can view graphics of many different formats such as PostScript, TIFF etc. By saving your files in a different format than the original you can easily convert images to other graphics formats. In addition, KView provides some nice little features for doing simple image processing, like stretching/shrinking, rotation and filtering. You can tile your images directly onto the desktop as a background picture, or arrange them in a little slideshow.

This program is part of the official KDE graphics module.

### Generic options:

- **--help**

  Show help about options

- **--help-qt**

  Show Qt specific options

- **--help-kde**

  Show KDE specific options

- **--help-all**

  Show all options

- **--author**

  Show author information

- **-v**, **--version**

  Show version information

- **--license**

  Show license information

- **--**

  End of options

### Arguments:

- URL

  Image to open

## SEE ALSO

The full documentation for **KView** is maintained as a docbook manual.  If the **khelpcenter** program is properly installed at your site, the command

-

  **khelpcenter help:/kview**

should give you access to the complete manual.

## AUTHOR

KView was written by Matthias Kretz \<kretz@kde.org\>, Sirtaj Singh Kang \<taj@kde.org\> and Simon Hausmann \<hausmann@kde.org\>.\
 Please use http://bugs.kde.org to report bugs, do not mail the authors directly.\
 This manual page was prepared by Karolina Lindqvist \<pgd-karolinali@algonet.se\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).