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I just downloaded this file and I cannot open it with the default Image Viewer because it crashes without opening the image; is there any other way to open very large images?

I have 6GB of ram so this 200MB+ image should be opened without issues.

Zanna
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  • Here is what I see when I try to open it from the command line with eog: 'Error interpreting JPEG image file (Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x3c 0x21).' – chili555 Dec 15 '14 at 13:18
  • I use Firefox for images that are too big for the Eye Of the Gnome. – Levente Mar 29 '21 at 00:23

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The image size is over 200MB. I downloaded, and tried to open with image viewer, and it won't open. I opened with Gimp, and it works fine. See below

enter image description here

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All image viewers I tried, except "Gnome Image Viewer" worked fine opening that image:

  • geeqie < imo, this one is by far the best image viewer
  • gthumb
  • shotwell
  • feh

And it works also fine in other software that is not specialized in viewing images

  • gimp
  • firefox
  • qgis

Sometimes, the Gnome software has much better alternatives (e.g. gedit is the same, very slow for big files).

pLumo
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  • Alright I'll fix that. – karel Oct 18 '19 at 11:52
  • Out of all these programs, only firefox was abole to display a 50k x 50k PNG and 100k x 100k PNG. (idk how to use qgis). gimp in particular uses a huge amount of memory for the purposes of image editing. – qwr May 27 '20 at 20:11
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The image opens perfectly fine in Shotwell Photo Manager (version 0.22.0) on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
Shotwell Screenshot

Alternately, you can try out ImageMagick(Q16) image editor.

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