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IrfanView
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Re: IrfanView
#132I've found nomacs to be a good alternative:
It hits the sweet spot when it comes to clipboard functionality -- You can either copy the image itself, or copy its path on the filesystem. Most image viewers only support one of these commands.
Re: IrfanView
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
As an only occasional windows user, I certainly wouldn’t mind seeing such a list, maybe in a GitHub gist if you find yourself bored one day :)
Not the OP but I use a subset of the software available on https://ninite.com/ (IrfanView included)
Used to use that as well, but the selection was too limited for me, so I first switched to chocolatey, and nowadays, winget.
This way I can install almost everything I want with one command.
I'll post my list tomorrow when I'm back on my PC.
Re: IrfanView
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you get it on macOS?
If it's for non-commercial use, you might find this a spritual equivalent, cross-platform: https://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/
Can vouch that this is a nice piece of software, especially the batch convert options (everything from EXIF data, rescaling images and various other transformations, as well as either replacing the original files or various naming options) and supports a bunch of formats.
Re: IrfanView
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
>I used to use it back on Windows 95 because it was a faster way to view JPEGs than opening Internet Explorer. That's an amazing sentence. We should frame it and put it in a museum. Actually someone should make a book filled just with quotes like this, call it "Life Before the Gigahertz" or something.
I see so many comments these days bemoaning how slow modern software has gotten, but no one seems to remember/have been alive for the time when just rendering an image would take multiple seconds. Just goes to show that our expectations scale with the available technology.
And now decoding a jpeg takes the blink of an eye, but we wait five seconds for a widget to render. When it does, we click somewhere else, because in that exact moment the layout was reflown.
Re: IrfanView
#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most people look at images via browser these days.
Who cares what 'most people do'? Why are we constantly resorting to this tired refrain of "majority rules"? Have you all forgotten that niche things exist?
Niche things by definition are less popular. In my grandparent comment I was explaining why standalone image viewers are less popular. Looks like we agree.
Re: IrfanView
#137Why are most comments referring to having used this in the past tense? I was under the impression that it was still the best image viewer in town, on Windows at least
IMO it's up there, I've been using it for over 20+ years. IrfanView and foobar2000 (mp3 player) haven't left my side since I started using them. Ditto (clipboard manager) has also earned its place.
Of the three, ditto easily takes no. 1 spot. Must’ve saved me weeks of juggling windows and trying to remember where stuff was at this point. It’s a superpower, a true game changer if I ever saw one.
Maccy on macOS is about half as good which is still an absolute unit of a tool. Couldn’t use a Mac without it.
Re: IrfanView
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know for sure, but C++ is always a good guess with that kind of software.
I downloaded IrfanView and ran "strings" on the exe file, and one of the strings in there is "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library" - so that would point towards C++ (although it's not certain from that alone).
Yeah, Irfanview dates to a time when MS’s C compiler was horribly out of date (still stuck in C89 compatibility), and the only way to get remotely modern language features was to compile it as C++, even if you never used any C++ features. Everyone was programming in “C++” on windows back then even if they were basically writing C.
So yeah, it’s C++ but that doesn’t necessarily tell you much, it could still very well be basically C.
Re: IrfanView
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use JPEGView nowadays https://github.com/sylikc/jpegview
Does it have feature parity? Just from the list it looks like it only supports a small fraction of what Irfan view does.
No that many. It supports the most important ones though, and it is the fastest