IrfanView 3.99

IrfanView is a fast and compact image viewer/converter. It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals. Many supported file formats and features. Features include: multi-language support, Thumbnail option, slideshow, fast directory browsing, batch conversion/editing, multipage editing, file search, change color depth, scanning, cut/crop, IPTC edit, capturing, lossless JPG operations, effects (sharpen, blur, Adobe Photoshop filters), EXE/SCR creating, many hotkeys, command line options and plugins.
Version 3.99 introduces a host of updates, including support for PDF export; new Thumbnails option: Load file list from TXT; support for new formats (SIF, PVR, AWD); zooming and scrolling is now possible in slideshow mode.

Note: IrfanView is now bundled with Google Toolbar and Google Desktop Search. Installation of these components is optional.

Here are some key features of "IrfanView":

- Many supported file formats
- Multi language support
- Thumbnail/preview option
- Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
- Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc.
- Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
- Fast directory view (moving through directory)
- Batch conversion (with image processing)
- Multipage TIF editing
- Email option
- Multimedia player
- Print option
- Change color depth
- Scan (batch scan) support
- Cut/crop
- IPTC editing
- Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
- Capturing
- Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs
- Lossless JPG rotation
- Many hotkeys
- Many command line options
- Many PlugIns
- Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages like "I Agree" or "Evaluation expired"
- No registry changes without user action/permission!
- and many more

Developed by Irfan Skiljan—a student at the University of Vienna— in 1996, IrfanView has enjoyed some phenomenal success since then. One of the primary reasons is its ability to display virtually any type of file (including movie files) and do so in a light interface.

Moving along to the main Viewer: one of the major advantages of IrfanView is that you can lock a particular zoom position, and all photos that point forth (for that session) would be displayed at the same percentage. This has some advantages in the sense that you can flip through photos faster, and rendering photos doesn’t take as long, since the viewer knows exactly what zoom level to bring every photo to.

IrfanView is not just about viewing photos. It lets you do some minor editing as well. The options available are so widespread that it’s not possible to list them all here! But some of the more impressive ones are:

Slideshow, batch conversion, Acquiring from a TWAIN source, Batch acquire or scan, add text to photos, convert to greyscale, enhance colours, reduce red-eye, change colour palettes, and even capture screenshots. To be honest, this is just about 10 per cent of what it can do.

But the biggest advantage is the fact that IrfanView is the fastest viewer and can display almost all file types!

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