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Re: IrfanView

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Post by ghusbands »

mcBesse wrote: post #260
nolongerthere wrote: post #202

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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

Doesn't Ctrl+Shift+v already paste without formatting?

That's what it claims to do in many apps, yes. I still end up pasting into notepad and copying from there to get real paste-without-formatting.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by DragonMaus »

mrWiz wrote: post #185
nolok wrote: post #173

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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.

Do you mean NanaZip?

Re: IrfanView

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Post by k12sosse »

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.

I remember we had to pull it from our educational institution because his about used to "jokingly" reference soliciting nudes.

> (The dozen women should send me pictures of themselves in the nude ;-) (joke) )

https://web.archive.org/web/20090106143615/https://www.irfan...

Re: IrfanView

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Post by CamperBob2 »

colineartheta wrote: post #115
awiesenhofer wrote: post #111

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And not once in all this time did you open settings and change these behaviours (which you can)? Weird.

Not once in all that time did I consider using a program with hostile default settings. Weird how hard this might be for an image viewer.

Agreed that the Irfanview default settings are questionable in some cases. And I personally find the UI hard to work with because nothing is ever where I expect it to be, with the important display option settings buried in a nested menu.

But it is highly configurable, and I think you're catching grief because it really doesn't sound like you or your colleagues made any attempt to take advantage of that.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by XzetaU8 »

smusamashah wrote: post #275
AlienRobot wrote: post #56

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But what if you want to display Full HD video in the image viewer from an URL? Wouldn't you need Electron for that? Also I was under the impression just the DLLs for all the image formats would be over 4 MB. I wonder how large is it uncompressed.

https://mpc-hc.org This is the lightest fastest yet feature rich media player for windows I know. Its 12 MB compressed though. Didn't know irfanview could do that

Your link is the old/abandonware mpc-hc, here you'll find a more recent version

https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc

Re: IrfanView

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Post by integricho »

whitten wrote: post #147
integricho wrote: post #94

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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 ?

https://web.archive.org/web/20120210051507/http://mv2.czweb....

it can be found here, and a few other places as well, but unfortunately the source code was never shared. Though it was such an amazing, blazing fast and bloatfree app, such a shame the code was never shared, and now it seems lost, unless the author is around somewhere?

Re: IrfanView

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Post by integricho »

DrSiemer wrote: post #273
omnibrain wrote: post #122

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When ACDsee got bloated (and the shareware screen to nagging) I switched to IrfanView.

ACDsee just kept getting worse until it just became unbearable. I did miss the image sorting abilities until I found PhotoSift.

sadly it did, the 3.1 version was the last one that I remember as still not bloated, 4.x was already bad. But up until that, 1.x, 2.x, ..., they were great.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by aagha »

akoboldfrying wrote: post #254
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…

Everything is the best program I have ever used. I couldn't live without it at this point. It would be like cutting off both arms.

Have you tried using Fluent? It uses Everything as the back-end search and then adds steroids to it.
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