IrfanView

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Post by omnibrain » Sat, Mar 30, 2024, 1:56 PM UTC

IrfanView
irfanview.com

Re: IrfanView

#2

Post by meristohm » Sat, Mar 30, 2024, 2:12 PM UTC

Back when i used Windows, IrfanView was my go-to image viewer, downloaded along with SumatraPDF via ninite.com. There's something similar in the repositories in Software Manager on Linux Mint, and Pix is fuller-featured, but like Foobar2000 for music, I still miss IrfanView from time to time, probably because of muscle memory and being more impressionable back then. (There's almostt certainly a way to get these Windows programs running on LMDE, I just don't care enough to mess with it.)

Re: IrfanView

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Post by pestatije » Sat, Mar 30, 2024, 3:58 PM UTC

i use it to see .sid images...never found any other way to open those

Re: IrfanView

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Post by techknight » Sat, Mar 30, 2024, 5:09 PM UTC

In Windows it's still faster than anything else if you've copied an image to clipboard to open irfanview -> paste -> save, or to do a quick crop or whatever.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by respondo2134 » Sat, Mar 30, 2024, 5:09 PM UTC

irfanview for images, vlc for videos, foobar for audio - so much better than anything bundled with windows since forever

Re: IrfanView

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Post by esafak » Sat, Mar 30, 2024, 5:09 PM UTC

Windows was good for shareware developers because people had to buy utilities to like Irfanview to basically replace all the junk the OS shipped with. I eventually drop-kicked the whole OS and now life is good.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by respondo2134 » Sat, Mar 30, 2024, 5:10 PM UTC

techknight wrote: post #4

In Windows it's still faster than anything else if you've copied an image to clipboard to open irfanview -> paste -> save, or to do a quick crop or whatever.

for those increasingly rare times you want to print an image it's great too.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by antegamisou » Sat, Mar 30, 2024, 5:13 PM UTC

Along with ImageJ, that is open-source and has found use by researchers among many different disciplines, they're great examples of longstanding projects done right.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by playingalong » Sat, Mar 30, 2024, 5:13 PM UTC

That's my first memory of a program with keyboard shortcuts not being the typical ones, but still usable and thought through.

Enter/return to go full screen (or exit from full screen?).

Re: IrfanView

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Post by verstandhandel » Sat, Mar 30, 2024, 5:15 PM UTC

techknight wrote: post #4

In Windows it's still faster than anything else if you've copied an image to clipboard to open irfanview -> paste -> save, or to do a quick crop or whatever.

or just the batch mode ... very helpful and fast.