Could someone recommend small, simple utilities?

[Zbiggy]

I would to find out, which (possibly small at their size) utilities could be taken as "replacements" for the ones used, when working under Windows and Linux. Most preferred are the ones, which OSX already contains in its fileset - but the "external" ones are also welcome:

 

1. Simple image viewer: under Windows I'm using its "mspaint", under Linux - a simplistic "pho". What could be best option for such simple image viewer in OSX?

 

2. PDF viewer: Windows - "acroread", Linux - "xpdf", OSX - ...?

 

3. ODF viewer: Windows - "winword", Linux - "oowriter", OSX - ...?

 

4. XLS viewer: Windows - "excel", Linux - "oocalc", OSX - ...?

 

5. Simple text viewer: Windows - "notepad", Linux - "gedit", OSX - ...?

 

6. Simple music (MP3/OGG) player: Window - "mplay32", Linux - "xmms", OSX - ...?

 

7. Simple sound utility (simplistic WAV-player) - Windows - "sndrec32", Linux - "aplay", OSX - ...?

 

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

 

Regarding both sound utilities: most preferred are the ones, that won't raise any windows (could be by using some option), since quite often I'm using such tools for scripting.

[Noam AA]

I would to find out, which (possibly small at their size) utilities could be taken as "replacements" for the ones used, when working under Windows and Linux. Most preferred are the ones, which OSX already contains in its fileset - but the "external" ones are also welcome:

 

1. Simple image viewer: under Windows I'm using its "mspaint", under Linux - a simplistic "pho". What could be best option for such simple image viewer in OSX?

 

2. PDF viewer: Windows - "acroread", Linux - "xpdf", OSX - ...?

 

3. ODF viewer: Windows - "winword", Linux - "oowriter", OSX - ...?

 

4. XLS viewer: Windows - "excel", Linux - "oocalc", OSX - ...?

 

5. Simple text viewer: Windows - "notepad", Linux - "gedit", OSX - ...?

 

6. Simple music (MP3/OGG) player: Window - "mplay32", Linux - "xmms", OSX - ...?

 

7. Simple sound utility (simplistic WAV-player) - Windows - "sndrec32", Linux - "aplay", OSX - ...?

 

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

 

Regarding both sound utilities: most preferred are the ones, that won't raise any windows (could be by using some option), since quite often I'm using such tools for scripting.

 

for Images, PDF, Music, text all those can run in the "Quick Look", either press the Space button on your keyboard while on a file on Finder, or press the Eye button in the finder window, and if it's mp3 or wav, you might get a Play button in the middle of the icon while hovering it, for quick listening.

 

you can use Text Edit for simple text and rich text.

also you can open images and PDF in the Preview app built-in

there is also Excel for mac, as well as Word and Power-Point

[Alessandro17]

Adobe Reader is available also for Mac, and frankly I prefer it to OS X native solutions.

For pictures you could use Picasa.

Microsoft Office, OpenOffice and LibreOffice are all available for Mac.

A great app: VLC.

[Zbiggy]

for Images, PDF, Music, text all those can run in the "Quick Look", either press the Space button on your keyboard while on a file on Finder, or press the Eye button in the finder window, and if it's mp3 or wav, you might get a Play button in the middle of the icon while hovering it, for quick listening.

 

you can use Text Edit for simple text and rich text.

also you can open images and PDF in the Preview app built-in

there is also Excel for mac, as well as Word and Power-Point

Well, thans - but as I wrote, I need rather simple utilities, since I'm interested in command-line use. Therefore no "press Space" neither anything like that - but rather what do I need to write into command line, like: "aplay -q" for playing WAV file given as its parameter (under Linux), for example.

 

Adobe Reader is available also for Mac, and frankly I prefer it to OS X native solutions.

For pictures you could use Picasa.

Microsoft Office, OpenOffice and LibreOffice are all available for Mac.

A great app: VLC.

Could you, please, let me know, what do I need to write into the command line? Examples from Windows XP are:

 

 

- for Excel files I've got to use "excel /e" (then filename as parameter)

 

- for Word files I need "winword /f" (then filename...)

 

- for playing mp3 files there's a need for "mplay32 /play /close"

 

- WAV signals are in need of "sndrec32 /play /close /embedding"

 

- mspaint, acroread, notepad doesn't need any additional switches under Windows, just filename as parameter

 

I need such details for command-line and scripts (AFAIK under OSX we should mind the letter case, as under Linux?).

[Alessandro17]

I imagine that very few of us use OS X in that way. What is the point of having the most beautiful GUI in the world and not using it? It makes much more sense using Linux with a very light Window Manager.

[PookyMacMan]

Terminal has nano, vi, and pico for text editing. However, OS X is not designed to be used in that manner. The point is for the GUI, as Alessandro previously stated.

 

If you really need to launch them from the Terminal, you would type the path to the app with /Contents/MacOS/[AppName]. For example, for TextEdit:

 

/Applications/TextEdit/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit

[Luigifan]

For simple image editing you could use Paintbrush. It has a similar UI to MSPaint

[Alessandro17]

Check out my 'Windows' Desktop!

 

Hi Luigifan

 

How did you do that?

 

(Sorry for the OT)