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Re: IrfanView

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Post by justin66 » Sun, Mar 31, 2024, 1:25 PM UTC

dewey wrote: post #248

justin66 wrote: post #178

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This comment is baffling. Just so you know, the IrfanView license requires commercial users to pay for a license, just like XnView does. Apparently that's... bad?

How did the comment in any way make it sound bad?

"If it's for non-commercial use."

Re: IrfanView

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Post by justin66 » Sun, Mar 31, 2024, 1:26 PM UTC

therealmarv wrote: post #258

justin66 wrote: post #178

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This comment is baffling. Just so you know, the IrfanView license requires commercial users to pay for a license, just like XnView does. Apparently that's... bad?

also allowed in commercial settings (BSD style license): Phoenix Slides https://blyt.net/phxslides/ open-source, ignore the simple web page, software is awesome.

Thank God there's a BSD-licensed option. The notion that a business would pay to use software because the license requires it is just... appalling.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by dewey » Sun, Mar 31, 2024, 1:35 PM UTC

justin66 wrote: post #281

dewey wrote: post #248

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How did the comment in any way make it sound bad?

"If it's for non-commercial use."

That’s a neutral fact, not a negative spin.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by dean2432 » Sun, Mar 31, 2024, 1:42 PM UTC

therealmarv wrote: post #252

dean2432 wrote: post #234

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For MacOS, I wonder if it's faster than XNView MP. This was the fastest image viewer I could find for Apple Silicon. Also are you running it through Wine on MacOS or how do you get it working?

Ever tried Phoenix Slides (open source, long history)? It's definitely faster than Preview for me on large images: https://blyt.net/phxslides/

Never heard of it. Just threw some very highres jpeg2000 images at it and wow, i am blown away. It runs circles around XnView MP (and preview) on these!! Thanks :)

Re: IrfanView

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Post by nolok » Sun, Mar 31, 2024, 2:00 PM UTC

simon04 wrote: post #276

jjbinx007 wrote: post #246

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Wiztree is a good alternative to Tree size, it's almost instantaneous

Or the good (old) Scanner from http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/ (a <1MB executable)

I'm partial to spacesniffer for that http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/

Re: IrfanView

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Post by Moru » Sun, Mar 31, 2024, 2:18 PM UTC

poisonborz wrote: post #159

pawelduda wrote: post #15

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Never could get into foobar... team winamp here

That is long dead, try AIMP, it even supports Winamp dsp-s.

The most important part of Winamp is the global keyboard shortcuts you can set up. I have been using wasd controls for my games and my player since forever. Well, since I found the global keyboard shortcuts in winamp...

wasd for games, ctrl+shift+qewasd for play/pause/forward/backward/next/prev and so on. Don't need to switch window, don't need to move hand away from wasd. Can't live without it now even though I don't have so much playtime any more. Works just as well in any other environment.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by 0cVlTeIATBs » Sun, Mar 31, 2024, 2:19 PM UTC

ACDSee old versions (2.6.1?) would preload the next image in memory while scrolling through a folder, making it extremely useful in the age of hard drives. It became bloated, but the only reasons to switch were for newer image formats, and sometimes .gifs would crash it.

FastStone Image Viewer is the performant, slick image viewer I use now.

IrfanView has some rough defaults like if you scroll to the end of a folder, a window pops up that you have to click away before you can scroll back. I use it all the time for simple editing, not viewing.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by Ringz » Sun, Mar 31, 2024, 2:27 PM UTC

crawfordcomeaux wrote: post #269

Ringz wrote: post #250

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I don’t know ditto but on maccy it’s just the paste shortcut (for the last copy) plus a number (if you need an older copy). Could it be easier?

A way to sort of "alt-tab" between copy versions instead of separate keypresses for each?

I don't understand what you mean. Sorting: There is no shortcut for sorting. However, I have never needed this either, because the search via regular expressions Fuzzy or a mixture of both works very well.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by varelaseb » Sun, Mar 31, 2024, 2:56 PM UTC

jhalstead wrote: post #141

nolok wrote: post #120

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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).

Raycast packages a few of these into a modern app as well. Clipboard, Searching files, Window management. Very lightweight though part of a different generation so more "bloated" in some people's eyes. Low resources used though.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by davchana » Sun, Mar 31, 2024, 2:59 PM UTC

2-3-7-43-1807 wrote: post #112

this ... and its text file counterpart ... Notepad++ ... glorious Windows 95. sounds strange but one reason why I'm now on Linux (Mint Cinnamon) is because I liked Windows 95 and XP so much. it's practically the same UI. no tile nonsense. a task bar. a start menu. a good ole desktop. beautiful. (and I also want to mention I did at least once donate to IrfanView / https://www.irfanview.com/main_support_engl.htm )

I like that you can simply start a text file or files, and close the program, it will save the session without any exit dialogs.