Irfanview Program

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IrfanViewˈɪərfnvjuː/) is an image viewer, editor, organiser and converter program for Microsoft Windows.[5][6][7] It can also play video and audio files, and has some image creation and painting capabilities. IrfanView is free for non-commercial use; commercial use requires paid registration.[5] It is noted for its small size,[6] speed,[6] ease of use, and ability to handle a wide variety of graphic file formats. It was first released in 1996.[7]

IrfanView is named after its creator, Irfan Škiljan, from Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, living in Vienna.[8] The current version of IrfanView, 4.66, works under all versions of Windows from Windows XP to Windows 11. Version 4.44 and older versions were compatible with Windows 95/98/Me[7][9] and can also be run in Linux under Wine[7][10] and in macOS using WineBottler.[7][11]

Image editing includes crop, resize, and rotate. Images can be adjusted by modifying their brightness, contrast, tint, and gamma level[14] manually or automatically, and by converting them between file formats. Many of these changes can be applied to multiple images in one operation using batch processing.[15]

IrfanView uses plugins to handle several additional images, video, and sound formats and to add optional functionality such as filter processing or other program features.[3][7] With its diverse set of format plugins, the program has been recommended for viewing obscure image formats, or corrupted files, which commercial photo editing software cannot read.[18][19]

Irfanview has been positively reviewed as "really good" for easily and rapidly viewing and manipulating images, with its editing and drawing tools.[20] Other writers have focused on its ability to open a wide variety of image formats.[18][19] In a series of image quality tests conducted in 2004, compared with commercial image compressors and Adobe Photoshop 7, Irfanview 3.91 produced "consistently better images than the Adobe Photoshop JPEG encoder at the same data rate", and its JPEG2000 compression quality "closely followed" the best codec, JasPer."[21] According to IrfanView's official website, since 2003, IrfanView has been downloaded over 1 million times per month. One independent review in 2017 described Irfanview, as "the Swiss Army Knife of image viewers".[15]

Irfan Škiljan graduated from the Vienna University of Technology. In a 2006 interview, then 32-year-old Škiljan said that he was able to more or less live off the software, generating income with the sale of licenses for commercial users and of special versions for different customers.[22]

i try mirage but it also doesn't have the thing i want.

also, feh, as i see now, is a command line tool(does it?) and i want something more simple.

f-spot is nice program but i want something more like gthumb or mirage(simple) that just have the option to select area and copy/cut it.

but, again, thanks for trying to help :-)

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I downloaded Irfan View and the EXCIF and IPTC plugins and was able to input data into all the fields, Keywords, Categories etc and save it as when I reopen that image in Irfanview the data is there, however IF i email myself a test read of the same image, the IPTC data that I had entered doesn't appear to be there??

How did you email the image to yourself? Did you mail the original imagefile (after the modification done by IrfanView), or did you resize the image to a smaller size with a "save for web" or "save for email" option of some program? ... (Such options usually strip off exif- and iptc-data) ... If you wish, you can email me such a file (that you test mailed yourself ... (use the "e-mail to" interface in Pnet to send me a small mail, and I'll reply, so you have my mail-addr).

If you want IPTC (and eventually EXIF) to be part of an image that you resized (shrinked) for web/mail use, you should look for a program (like irfanview) that allows you to keep or discard these sections of the file. (Eventually the program you use now also allows to keep IPTC).

(If you use save-as within irfanview, and if you have switched on the "show options dialog" field, you'll see a number of checkboxes to include or exclude certain parts of the metadata when storing the final image)

If you prepare images for a special use (eventually upsized an image), there is still a chance that IPTC was stripped off. Check the final image of such a workflow with Irfanview to make sure IPTC is still available. (or add it at that stage).

If you do such sizing operations more often, you might need a program to transfer metadata from an original image (with IPTC prepared when postprocessing this image) to a resized image. ... "jhead" and "exiftool" are such programs ... albeit both only give you a commandline interface.

One easy option for you is to get the free version of ABC-Deploy.

Both Ultra VNC and IrfanView is available with the free version from their online package store, just download pre-configured packages and use the program to push to all the clients that you want.

The free version of ABC-Deploy should be adequate to fulfill your needs and more.

I actually like the free version of PDQDeploy for this sort of thing. It will link up with Spiceworks inventory and let you push out installer packages. Generally, if the package can be installed silently it can be installed with PDQ.

My Windows to Linux migration saga continues. We're still a long way off from finishing it, but it has begun, and I've also outlined a basic list of different programs I will need to try andtest in Linux, to make sure when the final switch cometh that I have the required functionality. Youcan find a fresh bouquet of detailed tutorials on how to get SketchUp, Kerkythea, KompoZer, as well asNotepad++ running in Linux, all of them using WINE and successfully too, in my Linux category.

Today, my focus will be on IrfanView, a small, elegant image viewer for Windows, which I've beenusing with delight for decades now. It's got everything one needs, and often more than the competitors,hence this bold foray of using it in Linux despite the fact there are tons of native programsavailable. But let's proceed slowly and not get too far ahead of ourselves. After me.

As I said, it's majestic. A tiny program that does everything. It's fast and extremely efficient.When I posted my software checklist article, a lot of Linux folks said, well, you should try XnViewinstead. And I did, honest, several times, including just recently, which we will talk about in aseparate article, but the endeavor reminded me of why I'd chosen IrfanView all those years back. Andthose reasons remain.

Then, I did play with pretty much every Linux image viewer out there. None is as good as IrfanView.It comes down to small but important things. For instance, in IrfanView, S will save a file, O willtrigger the open dialog. Esc quits the program. Very fast. Most other programs use Ctrl + or Shift +modifiers, and that simply means more actions. I did once try to make GwenView use the full range ofIrfan's shortcuts, but then I hit a problem of an ambiguous shortcut, wut. I really don't likethe fact that hitting Esc takes you to a thumbnail overview mode. But that's what most programs do.

The first step is to have WINE installed on your system. I am going to use the exact same methodoutlined in the SketchUp Make 2017 tutorial. I have the WINE repositoriesadded, and I installed the 6.X branch on my system (at the time of writing).

Download the desired 32/64-bit version of the program and then install it. The process should befast and straightforward. You will be asked to make file type association. You can do this, or simplyskip the step, because it doesn't make any difference. You need to associate IrfanView as the defaultimage viewer, if this is your choice, through your distros' file type management utility, whatever itmay be.

Much like with Notepad++, you can import your existing workspace from a Windows machine. You cancopy plugins into the plugins folder, and the IrfanView INI files into the AppData/Roaming folder. Ifyou don't have any plugins, but you'd like to use some, then you will need to download the IrfanViewplugins bundle, extract it, and then selectively, manually copy the plugins into the WINE installationfolder. For instance, for the 64-bit version of the program, this is the path:

As a crude example, you may want to make IrfanView be able to open WebP files. In that case, youwill need to copy the WebP.dll file into the folder above, and relaunch the program. Or you can copythe entire set of IrfanView plugins. Your choice, of course.

And thus, IrfanView is now part of our growing awesome collection of dependable tools that will makethe Windows to Linux migration easier. I am quite sure the Linux purists will be angry by this article,as well as the other tutorials. But the real solution is to develop programs with equivalent if notsuperior functionality, and then, there will be no reason for any WINE hacks.

If you're an IrfanView user, and you're pondering a move to Linux, then you should be happy withthis guide. It shows how to get the program running, and even import old settings and plugins. I'vebeen using IrfanView in Linux for many years, and there have been no problems. That doesn't sayanything about the future, of course, but then, if you look at what Windows was 10 years ago, and whatit is now, it doesn't really matter. Well, that's the end of our mini-project for today. See youaround. More tutorials on the way!

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