IrfanView 4.0

[TonyE]

IrfanView, the freeware graphics viewer for windows, has recently been updated to version 4.0

What's new:
- Improved Vista compatibility
- New display option: Center image in window (Menu: View->Display options)
- Toolbar skin option added (Properties->Toolbar)
More Toolbar skins are available on the IrfanView homepage.
=> Users can send new Toolbar skins by email, Thanks guys!
- New Properties->Video option: Use DirectShow for playing (good for MJPG AVIs)
- New advanced batch option: Auto adjust colors
- "Enhance colors" can be now used on selections
- New EXIF dialog button: Show in Google Earth (if GPS data available)
- The EXIF dialog can stay displayed on screen
- Thanks to Dmitri Poguliayev for the new Vista icon!
- New Hotkey: CTRL + SHIFT + M = Show/edit JPG comment
- Several PlugIns are changed/updated, please install the newest versions - http://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm
- Some bugs fixed (Start folder, RLE BMPs, ANI loading)

[HansV]

Thanks!

[bigaldoc]

Thanks for the heads up, Tony. Everyone should be aware that (right now) their download process is quite messed up. Too lengthy to explain - just watch what you're doing. Example, clicking TUCOWS for Irfanview brings up the pages for downloading plugins...

[HansV]

I couldn't get it to download from any of the TUCOWS sites, but CNET worked the first time.

[JohnBF]

FileForum worked fine.

[bigaldoc]

C/Net is where I went to get the app and FileForum for the plugins. Maybe is was just TUCOWS. I got page not found errors and the like, for several servers I went to.

[bigaldoc]

Once again, may I digress a little into the program's use? I've only used IrfanView on a very limited basis in the past but I'm trying to get more "into" it of late. My old, old favorite SuperJPG is a dead duck as I've mentioned in The Lounge before and I used to use it to make "quick" web pages of photos. In order to replace it, I recently installed the Faststone Image Viewer mentioned in <post:=645,072>post 645,072</post:> but it doesn't have the abiliity to create web pages - at least not that I've found so far.

IrfanView does a pretty good job on it creating a base that could easily be enhanced with an HTML editor. I just went through a couple of practice runs and was wondering if any others of you have done so as well. My question is: how many thumbs is good for the horizontal width so as not to cause scrolling? The default is 9 but I think that's way too wide for most people. I have a 19" LCD at 1,280 pixels wide and 9 thumbnails fills up the screen. What's a good number?

[JoeP517]

Two for most homo sapiens. <img src=/S/anigrin.gif border=0 alt=anigrin width=19 height=19>

Joe

[JoeP517]

Al,

Just an attempt at some humor. Two thumbs for most of us - one for each hand.

Joe

[bigaldoc]

Huh?

Here's a sample where I changed the 9 to a 5 and it (obviously) seems to be a tad too narrow.

Billy's Soccer Season

Added: This one at 9-wide. Is the page viewable without horizontal scrolling? Billie & Al's Wedding & Honeymoon

[bigaldoc]

Sorry Joe. I guess I need a couple of afternoon brewskis...

[JoeP517]

No problemo Al. I think the bar must be open somewhere close by. Have one for me.

Joe

[IMNetUser]

<img src=/S/hmmn.gif border=0 alt=hmmn width=15 height=15> Same here. The main application I had to goto CNet, but I was able to get the plug-ins from tucows.

[diegol]

Hi Tony!

Thanks for that! This version isn't much of a helpful improvement over older ones for my ooold system, but it's still nice to see that they made it to 4.0. I still make do with version 3.36 which doesn't even need to be installed (runs from within a folder) and has most of the basic functions that make IView such a great program.

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