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Re: IrfanView

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Post by jhalstead »

nolok wrote: post #120
knighthack wrote: post #81

I've been using IrfanView since at least 1997, if not earlier in 1996. I still use IrfanView to this day. It's my Swiss knife for a lot of simple photo editing work (cropping, resizing, padding, text-adding, etc), batch-processing, and for browsing single photos through directories. It's not just good, it's way faster than the bloated alternatives. To top it off, IrfanView works beautifully on my Linux via Wine, and…

You want to open a picture, FAST, no matter the format or resolution ? You want to open a picture and then move from one picture to the next in the same folder with arrow keys or mouse scroll, again fast and without loading or menus fonctions or whatever ? You want to batch process a folder to convert all files to png with the larger side limited to 2000px, keep the location data but reset the orientation data, and r…

Do you have a link for Ditto? Searching for "Ditto app" and "Ditto software" returns several possible results for me (e.g. clipboard, music app, managing "copy", content sharing).

Re: IrfanView

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Post by shlubbert »

colineartheta wrote: post #108

Maybe I’ll get some hate for this, but years ago when I worked at a civil engineering firm this was the default image viewer IT had mapped every image file to open with - it was a nightmare! Every coworker I had (myself included) would constantly complain about the number of times they had to change to [literally anything else]. There were three distinct things I remember we all hated: 1. The image never opened full…

I'm with you. To me IrfanView always felt incredibly archaic and chaotic, and I never wanted to wade through its 5 billion settings to "fix" it for me. But I guess some people just care more about UX while others just want as many features as possible, and I'm glad it's there for the latter camp.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by Terr_ »

AlienRobot wrote: post #48
donatj wrote: post #38

That’s a name I have not heard in a long while. I used to use it back on Windows 95 because it was a faster way to view JPEGs than opening Internet Explorer. Everything about that makes me feel old.

>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.

News quotes followed by a link to an audio file that discloses its length and probable (larger) time to download.

Re: IrfanView

#144

Post by elrostelperien »

jhalstead wrote: post #141
nolok wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You want to open a picture, FAST, no matter the format or resolution ? You want to open a picture and then move from one picture to the next in the same folder with arrow keys or mouse scroll, again fast and without loading or menus fonctions or whatever ? You want to batch process a folder to convert all files to png with the larger side limited to 2000px, keep the location data but reset the orientation data, and r…

Do you have a link for Ditto? Searching for "Ditto app" and "Ditto software" returns several possible results for me (e.g. clipboard, music app, managing "copy", content sharing).

The most famous is the clipboard one (https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/). I'd be surprised if they were referring to another "Ditto" software.

Re: IrfanView

#146

Post by netol »

Semaphor wrote: post #77
AlienRobot wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I prefer JPEGView on Windows. What do you think is the best alternative for Linux?

Just saw this mentioned above, might as well ask here: why? It looks to only support a small fraction of features.

It's faster to load images

Re: IrfanView

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Post by whitten »

integricho wrote: post #94
monkpit wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To add to that, for me mplayer was clutch for a long time, nowadays I opt for VLC though.

mv2player was a really good option for a period of time, it's a shame it just disappeared, not even it's source code can be found.

That sounds bad. Is it on any old shareware sites ?

Re: IrfanView

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Post by devwastaken »

Irfanview is so fast that I don't need to convert image sequences to video format. I can just press and hold right arrow key. I do wish there was a way to limit the speed though.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by [deleted] »

instagraham wrote: post #12

Why 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

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