anon
05.12.08, 20:16
IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista.
It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.
IrfanView is trying to create new and/or interesting features in its own way, unlike some other graphic viewers, whose whole "creativity" is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView! (for example: XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 8+ years).
IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support.
One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIF support.
The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple ICO support.
Screenshot:
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/9608/irfanviewscreenshotte3.gif
Links:
Download (http://www.software.com/irfanview)
Plugins (http://www.software.com/irfanview-plugin) (info (http://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm))
Languages (http://www.irfanview.com/languages.htm)
Toolbar skins (http://www.irfanview.com/skins.htm)
This is a very good general multimedia viewing program. It can open and save images in a bunch of different formats, some of which I had never heard about before.
Furthermore, its MP3 player plugin (I recommend you download the plugin pack to be able to open all supported formats) can open pretty much every .mp3 file out there as long as it's a valid one (other players like WMP often can't play tracks depending on the encoder), it has a smaller memory footprint than other viewers (used 220MB to load a 44.4MB 9372x9372 JPEG, whereas PhotoFiltre used 260MB, and MS Paint crashed because it attempted to go beyond 500MB. When in audio-player mode it usually won't allocate more than a megabyte or two), and its video player will still let you smoothly watch a movie other players have skipping/freezing problems with - I still prefer MPC, though. Also, it's really non-invasive; if you want to uninstall it it's just a matter of running the uninstaller and deleting the folder at "Program Files" in case it was left over. It won't touch anything in your registry, except of course the needed keys for file associations. :top:
It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.
IrfanView is trying to create new and/or interesting features in its own way, unlike some other graphic viewers, whose whole "creativity" is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView! (for example: XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 8+ years).
IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support.
One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIF support.
The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple ICO support.
Screenshot:
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/9608/irfanviewscreenshotte3.gif
Links:
Download (http://www.software.com/irfanview)
Plugins (http://www.software.com/irfanview-plugin) (info (http://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm))
Languages (http://www.irfanview.com/languages.htm)
Toolbar skins (http://www.irfanview.com/skins.htm)
This is a very good general multimedia viewing program. It can open and save images in a bunch of different formats, some of which I had never heard about before.
Furthermore, its MP3 player plugin (I recommend you download the plugin pack to be able to open all supported formats) can open pretty much every .mp3 file out there as long as it's a valid one (other players like WMP often can't play tracks depending on the encoder), it has a smaller memory footprint than other viewers (used 220MB to load a 44.4MB 9372x9372 JPEG, whereas PhotoFiltre used 260MB, and MS Paint crashed because it attempted to go beyond 500MB. When in audio-player mode it usually won't allocate more than a megabyte or two), and its video player will still let you smoothly watch a movie other players have skipping/freezing problems with - I still prefer MPC, though. Also, it's really non-invasive; if you want to uninstall it it's just a matter of running the uninstaller and deleting the folder at "Program Files" in case it was left over. It won't touch anything in your registry, except of course the needed keys for file associations. :top: