fbida (image and PDF viewer for framebuffer console) The fbida project contains a few applications for viewing and editing images, with the main focus being photos: fbi - This is an image viewer for the Linux framebuffer console. fbgs - Script for viewing PS/PDF files on framebuffer console using fbi. fbipdf - Framebuffer PDF viewer, faster and better than fbgs, but without support for PS. exiftran - Command line tool to do lossless transformations of JPEG images. ida - Motif based image viewer for X11. Can be disabled by setting MOTIF=no in the script's environment.