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Re: IrfanView

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Post by salesynerd »

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 (…

Thanks for sharing your list; I already use many of them but learnt about a few new ones that I'll try. I second Everything, the best, nifty little, Windows search utility that is blazing fast.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by nolongerthere »

smusamashah wrote: post #190
nolok wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)?

Idk if this is still the case but back when I tried the built in clipboard history when it was first released, it didn’t handle formatted text well, nor did it handle multi-media particularly well, if at all.

One of the best parts about ditto is that you can choose to paste with or without formatting

Re: IrfanView

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Post by theandrewbailey »

purplepatrick wrote: post #197

My dad introduced me to it after he started using it when it came out in 1996. It’s great, quick image editing. My only gripe with it is that cropping is unnecessarily convoluted…

> My only gripe with it is that cropping is unnecessarily convoluted…

What are you talking about? Make a rectangular selection on the image (click and drag across the image), then CTRL+Y. Couldn't be easier.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by theandrewbailey »

pawelduda wrote: post #15
respondo2134 wrote: post #5

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

Never could get into foobar... team winamp here

Same. If I'm listening to music with something other than Winamp (and the default Classic skin), I feel weird.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by onehair »

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…

I use sumatra for how lightweight and fast it is. 7zip is just uncontested. I wish Ditto had copycats on linux and macos. It's just sublime.

I've never used irfanview though, I'm too quick to judge from the UI of an app xD

I see all those buttons on IrfanView and how it opens as an explorer of pictures rather than just a simple Photo Viewer with arrows to go back and forth and closed it. qView is my fav right now. It does exactly what I need from a viewer. It views. I rarely need editing.

Nowadays if I need editing I just open Photopea.

If I need batch editing/converting I open XnConvert.

tl;dr IfranView is probably amazing, but just like all those buttons on np++ I pre-judge and find simpler things

Re: IrfanView

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Post by sunshinesnacks »

nolongerthere wrote: post #202
smusamashah wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)?

Idk if this is still the case but back when I tried the built in clipboard history when it was first released, it didn’t handle formatted text well, nor did it handle multi-media particularly well, if at all. One of the best parts about ditto is that you can choose to paste with or without formatting

The Windows clipboard history tool works with images. Screenshots, at least, but I think others as well.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by chipotle_coyote »

onehair wrote: post #206
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…

I use sumatra for how lightweight and fast it is. 7zip is just uncontested. I wish Ditto had copycats on linux and macos. It's just sublime. I've never used irfanview though, I'm too quick to judge from the UI of an app xD I see all those buttons on IrfanView and how it opens as an explorer of pictures rather than just a simple Photo Viewer with arrows to go back and forth and closed it. qView is my fav right now. It…

I haven't used Ditto so I don't know how closely macOS clipboard managers compare to it, but there's certainly a fair number of programs for the Mac out there that sound similar to Ditto's own description, from the free, open source Maccy to the somewhat over-the-top $13 Pastebot. There are other utility programs that include similar functionality; personally, I'm using Alfred, a keyboard-driven launcher, which also includes a pretty good clipboard manager (and is the sort of app that I'd be looking for copycats for on Linux if I ever made the switch back!).

https://maccy.app

https://tapbots.com/pastebot/

https://www.alfredapp.com

Re: IrfanView

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Post by cobalt »

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 (…

Some alternatives to these items: I like bandizip for zip needs

MPC-BE for video/audio

XnViewMP

Firefox for PDFs

MS office web (no need to install anything)

Windows 10+ includes clipboard history

PowerToys does have a file search, not sure how it compares to Everything

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