Uitgavegeschiedenis IrfanView

Al sinds mensenheugenis is IrfanView dé fotoviewer. Het programma ziet er spartaans uit en het logo is op zijn minst apart te noemen, maar wie over deze uiterlijkheden heenstapt ontdekt zo'n breed scala aan mogelijkheden dat bijna geen enkele fotobeheerder hiermee kan concurreren.

Tegenwoordig verschijnt zo een tot twee keer per jaar een update voor IrfanView. In 2010 hebben we geluk: de tweede update is uitgekomen. IrfanView 4.28 kent weer een waslijst aan verbeteringen en nieuwe mogelijkheden. Aangezien IrfanView al bijna alles kan zijn het voornamelijk verfijningen die u in de lijst hieronder ziet staan.

IrfanView is geschikt voor Windows 98 tot en met 7. Let tijdens de installatie op als u niet Google Chrome, de Google Toolbar of Google Desktop mee wilt installeren!

Complete release notes:

• Option to support IrfanView by installing Google Chrome browser (OPTIONAL !)
  
• New multipage images feature: Show page thumbnails (Hotkey: F10, menu: View)
  (Uses thumbnail settings from Thumbnails window, use TAB for focus change)
  
• New multipage images option: Change pages using Page keys (Properties->Browsing)
  
• New color management option in Properties->Viewing:
  Set input ICC profile file for images without embedded ICC profile (default: sRGB)
  
• New edit menu: Show selection grid (None, Golden Ratio, Thirds)
  
• New edit menu: Redo (one step, hotkey: CTRL + J)
  
• Video Playbar showed if DirectShow option used (Fullscreen: B = toggle playbar)
  (see Hotkeys help page; Thanks to Henner Helmers for testing)
  
• Option to show an image color channel, menu: "Image->Show channel" and
  
• Option show the channel as color or grayscale (Properties->Browsing/Editing)
  
• Selection: hold CTRL key pressed during drawing to make a proportional selection
  with the ratio from "Create Custom selection" dialog
  
• New selection hotkeys:
  ALT + arrows: change width/height of the selection rectangle
  CTRL + arrows: proportional resize of the selection rectangle
  Arrows: If no scrollbars visible: Move selection rectangle
  
• New placeholder options for: $D, $d, $F and $N => allow partial text, example:
  $N[0-5] => get first 5 characters from the file name
  
• New window display options: Fit to window width/height
  
• New Email PlugIn option: Resize large images
  (Advanced options work on the first page only)
  
• New Batch resize option: Resize based only on new/old DPI value
  
• Vertical and horizontal flip can be applied on selections
  
• New print dialog option: Collate (for multiple copies of multipage images)
  
• New Insert-Text dialog options: Antialiased text and Centered (batch mode)
  
• New Sort dialog option: Insert before selected file (for Batch/Slideshow)
  
• New JPG-Transform PlugIn option: Write/remove JFIF JPG header
  
• New Capture dialog feature: Set timer value as decimal number
  
• New hotkey: click into image + SHIFT = copy hex color value to clipboard
  
• New thumbnail sizes for 3:2, 4:3 and 16:9 ratios (Thumbnail window options)
  
• New selection color/method for items in Thumbnails window
  
• Improved extraction of video frames (more formats supported if Codecs installed)
  
• New feature for advanced users: define an external editor for every extension
  => see FAQs for an example, [CustomEditors]
  
• New PNG save option: Save transparency as Alpha channel (Thanks to Thomas Henlich)
  
• Command line: /advancedbatch and /convert can process all pages from multipage TIF
  
• Command line: /extract works now for GIF/ANI animations too
  
• New command line option: /export_pal=palfile (export palette to a PAL file)
  
• New hotkey: SHIFT + F5 = Refresh (force resample, if set in display options)
  
• New hotkey: SHIFT + Home/End = Load first/last page in a multipage image
  
• New hotkey: CTRL + D = Image->Add border/frame
  
• New hotkey: CTRL + SHIFT + X = Set as wallpaper: Proportional
  
• Menu change: Create max. custom selection moved to "Create maximized selection"
  
• At request of Luratech: removed support of LWF/LDF formats
  (projects/formats stopped, buffer overflows reported)
• Several PlugIns are changed/updated, please install the newest versions