IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 , 2008, Vista, Windows 7.
Changelog:
Option to support IrfanView by installing Google Chrome browser (OPTIONAL !)
New multipage images feature: Show page thumbnails (Hotkey: F10, menu: View)
(Uses thumbnail settings from Thumbnails window, use TAB for focus change)
New multipage images option: Change pages using Page keys (Properties->Browsing)
New color management option in Properties->Viewing:
Set input ICC profile file for images without embedded ICC profile (default: sRGB)
New edit menu: Show selection grid (None, Golden Ratio, Thirds)
New edit menu: Redo (one step, hotkey: CTRL + J)
Video Playbar showed if DirectShow option used (Fullscreen: B = toggle playbar)
(see Hotkeys help page; Thanks to Henner Helmers for testing)
Option to show an image color channel, menu: "Image->Show channel" and
Option show the channel as color or grayscale (Properties->Browsing/Editing)
Selection: hold CTRL key pressed during drawing to make a proportional selection
with the ratio from "Create Custom selection" dialog
New selection hotkeys:
ALT + arrows: change width/height of the selection rectangle
CTRL + arrows: proportional resize of the selection rectangle
Arrows: If no scrollbars visible: Move selection rectangle
New placeholder options for: $D, $d, $F and $N => allow partial text, example:
$N[0-5] => get first 5 characters from the file name
New window display options: Fit to window width/height
New Email PlugIn option: Resize large images
(Advanced options work on the first page only)
New Batch resize option: Resize based only on new/old DPI value
Vertical and horizontal flip can be applied on selections
New print dialog option: Collate (for multiple copies of multipage images)
New Insert-Text dialog options: Antialiased text and Centered (batch mode)
New Sort dialog option: Insert before selected file (for Batch/Slideshow)
New JPG-Transform PlugIn option: Write/remove JFIF JPG header
New Capture dialog feature: Set timer value as decimal number
New hotkey: click into image + SHIFT = copy hex color value to clipboard
New thumbnail sizes for 3:2, 4:3 and 16:9 ratios (Thumbnail window options)
New selection color/method for items in Thumbnails window
Improved extraction of video frames (more formats supported if Codecs installed)
New feature for advanced users: define an external editor for every extension
=> see FAQs for an example, [CustomEditors]
New PNG save option: Save transparency as Alpha channel (Thanks to Thomas Henlich)
Command line: /advancedbatch and /convert can process all pages from multipage TIF
Command line: /extract works now for GIF/ANI animations too
New command line option: /export_pal=palfile (export palette to a PAL file)
New hotkey: SHIFT + F5 = Refresh (force resample, if set in display options)
New hotkey: SHIFT + Home/End = Load first/last page in a multipage image
New hotkey: CTRL + D = Image->Add border/frame
New hotkey: CTRL + SHIFT + X = Set as wallpaper: Proportional
Menu change: Create max. custom selection moved to "Create maximized selection"
At request of Luratech: removed support of LWF/LDF formats
(projects/formats stopped, buffer overflows reported)
Several PlugIns are changed/updated, please install the newest versions
http://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm
Program Information Category:
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Free Version: 4.28 Size: 1.41MB Works on: Windows