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Re: IrfanView

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Post by airstrike »

_wqdq wrote: post #110
airstrike wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those are all settings you could have changed yourself. IrfanView is the best image viewer on Windows, hands down.

Expressing a viewpoint necessitates a downvote?

Nothing wrong with expressing an opinion, and I'm not here to defend you against downvoters, but from my perspective it's an uninformed opinion. All of the "issues" you identified are really just preferences and the dev was kind enough to let you configure the app as you'd like. It would be impossible for the dev to create a set of custom settings that every user finds perfect, so your other comment about "hostile defaults" comes across as entitled

The app is incredibly good. It does everything you could want, it's less than 10MB, blazing fast and easy to use. Super configurable. I used to have to fight with IT to have it installed or find a way to run some portable version just to have it at work.

I can't speak for others, but I think if you had spent a little bit more time trying to figure out the solution to the issues you identify, you would have found the answer, but somehow you are instead blaming the dev, which is what IMHO warrants downvotes.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by myfonj »

Also my daily driver for any bitmap-related operations. One little thing that became my muscle memory over the years is using it to view/edit/crop latest clipboard entry, most often screenshots, through simple hotkey (olden AutoHotkey) launcher with `/clippaste` command line parameter.

    ; open / view current clipboard in irfanView
    ; win alt i
    #!i::run,path\to\IrfanView\i_view32.exe /clippaste
(Funny, totally forgot I still use 32 bit version.) There are lots of command line options available i_view32 provides.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by Xeoncross »

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #152
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…

"It's not just good, it's way faster than the bloated alternatives." Another shining endorsement of "modern" software development (no, check that... software "engineering") Before I gave up Windows permanently, and that was over 20 years ago, I used this program. The more things "change" the more they stay the same.

Sounds like IrfanView just needs more PM's and VC's

Re: IrfanView

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Post by mrWiz »

nolok wrote: post #173
cellularmitosis wrote: post #85

Earlier 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 :)

Each their own, that's mine. Note that this is not a tech user or developper list, but the list of what I install on any new windows pc, including those at work etc ... 7zip (open any archive) VLC (open any audio/video file) IrfanView (+ the "all plugins" installer on the same page, open any picture file) SumatraPDF (read PDFs) Libreoffice (to open any office files) NAPS2 (easy scan, and split/merge/... PDFs) Ditto (…

I recently started having trouble with 7zip at work due to shared sharepoint folders and the like. I wound up finding ZanaZip which was forked from 7zip but keeps up with modern OS changes.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by lazyeye »

9witz wrote: post #166

Have used it since forever. Just used it today an hour ago. Usually to paste a windows screenshot and then do minor editing or cropping. Now windows has gotten a lot better, with the [WIN][Shift][s] shortcut (so cropping no longer is necessary). But that still misses a feature to quickly draw an arrow. Irfanview has that. Screenshot, crop, F12, put an arrow to point at something, copy, paste into Teams. So fast...

Fastone Capture is my goto for this. Does everything including drawing etc. Excellent software.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by AlienRobot »

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

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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 opens instantly. It shows just the image by default (no toolbars, scroll bars, menu bars, or status bars). I can disable linear interpolation with F3 and show width/height of an image with F2. It zooms with the scroll wheel, pans by dragging, and it lets me go to the next, previous, first, and last image of a directory instantly, and doing that won't resize the window.

I suppose the key difference is that some people want just a read-only image viewer that traverses a directory, while others want a photo viewer, or image metadata editor, or photo management system. I haven't used Windows' default image viewer in ages, but I recall when I used it, rotating an image actually rotated the image, as in it changed the orientation header of JPEG files and rewrote the files. This is why I have trust issues. If even image viewers can't just view the image, how can I possibly trust the software that drives cars, flies planes, or does the banking?

Re: IrfanView

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Post by smusamashah »

nolok wrote: post #153
elrostelperien wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

You are correct, this is the one I meant. It claims to handle windows clipboard "shortcomings" by remember previous entries and allowing you to access it easily (allowing for multi copy paste situation), and it does just that and do it well.

BTW windows now ship with a clipboard tool like this using Windows + V shortcut. I use other tools you mentioned already though. Need to try ditto. Is there a list of similarly *fast* alternatives like this for windows (+other OSes)?
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