Free xnview software for windows

Enhancements: - Folders with thumbnails of images contained - Sending images via e-mail - De-Scewing of scanned images - Hanning filter for resizing - Handling of name clashes in Batch rename

XnView shell extension allows for viewing a thumbnail of the selected image in the context menu of MS Explorer. You will be able to convert and resize, and you can even edit IPTC metadata.

Portable IrfanView 4.25 has come as a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 , 2008, Vista, Windows 7. It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.

IrfanView is trying to create new and/or interesting features in its own way, unlike some other graphic viewers, whose whole "creativity" is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView! (for example: XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 10+ years).

IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support.
One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIF support.
The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple ICO support.

Major Features:

1. Many supported file formats
2. Multi language support
3. Thumbnail/preview option
4. Paint option - to draw lines, circles, arrows, straighten image etc.
5. Toolbar skins option
6. Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
7. Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc.
8. Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
9. Fast directory view (moving through directory)
10. Batch conversion (with image processing)
11. Multipage TIF editing
12. File search
13. Email option
14. Multimedia player
15. Print option
16. Support for embedded color profiles in JPG/TIF
17. Change color depth
18. Scan (batch scan) support
19. Cut/crop
20. IPTC editing
21. Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
22. Capturing
23. Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs
24. Lossless JPG rotation
25. Unicode support
26. Many hotkeys
27. Many command line options
28. Many PlugIns
29. Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages like "I Agree" or "Evaluation expired"
30. No registry changes without user action/permission!
    

Enhancements:

• New capture option: Region capture (Thanks to grebulon)(as option in Capture dialog or hotkey: CTRL + PrintKey)
• OCR Feature/PlugIn added (Options menu, Hotkey: F9, full image or selection)
• New command line switches for /capture
• 4 = use region capture, 5 = start in capture mode using dialog settings
• New and re-arranged Properties dialogs
• New Color Management options in Properties->Viewing (new LCMS PlugIn needed)
• Burning PlugIn: can burn using Nero or Windows interface (WinXP or later)
• Support for JLS format (JPEG-LS, PlugIn by KATO Kanryu)
• Support for WBZ/WBC/WB1 formats (Webshots formats, PlugIn by V. Paramoshin)
• New display option: Use Resample for zooming (Menu: View->Display options)
• New fullscreen option: Use Resample for zooming (Properties->Fullscreen)
• Option to save changes on exit in now also used for image/file change
• New option in Batch-Scan dialog: Remember last scan counter
• Previous "Search files" dialog results showed again on next search
• Batch rename dialog: Last 15 rename patterns are saved
• New Thumbnails sort options: Sort by image DPI
• New placeholder: $p (image DPI)
• New buttons/options in File-Replace dialog for multiple files
• Resample bug with very special images fixed (TIF bug reported by Secunia, thanks!)
• The option "View->Lock zoom" works now with all display options
• Show PNG and TGA/DDS alpha color options merged (Properties->Viewing)
• New command line option: /reloadonloop
• Reload input source used in /slideshow when list is finished
• Command line, /convert: exit codes added: 0 = OK, 1 = load error, 2 = save error
• Support for TIFs with 12 bits per channel
• New option in Postscript PlugIn: Enable Antialiasing for better quality
• New button in EXIF dialog: Show in GeoHack-Wiki (for GPS coordinates)
• New help menu: Check homepage for updates
• Browsing hotkey: CTRL + SHIFT + number (0-9), decrease file index by number
• Several PlugIns are changed/updated, please install the newest versions

• Text, Binary, Hex, Unicode: any files, of unlimited size (even 4Gb+ sizes are allowed)
• RTF/UTF-8: RTF and UTF-8 encoded texts
• Image: all general graphics formats: BMP JPG GIF PNG TGA TIFF... plus all formats supported by IrfanView/XnView external viewers
• Multimedia: all formats supported by MS Windows Media Player: AVI MPG WMV MP3...
• Internet: all formats supported by MS Internet Explorer: HTML XML DOC XLS...
• Plugins: all formats supported by Total Commander Lister plugins

Enhancements: Now includes automated install