IrfanView 4.72 update improves EXIF, slideshow, and more
IrfanView is a fast and simple freeware image viewer, editor and converter that supports all major graphic formats, including AIF, ANI/CUR, ASF, AU/SND/AIF, AVI, B3D, BMP/DIB, CAM, CLP, CRW, DAT (VideoCD), DCR, DDS, DXF, Dicom/ACR, DJVU, ECW, EMF/WMF, EPS, FLI/FLC, FPX, FSH, G3, GIF, ICO/ICL/EXE/DLL, IFF/LBM, IMG/GEM, JPG2000, JPG/JPEG, JPM, KDC, LDF, LWF, MED, MID/MIDI/RMI, MNG/JNG, MOV, MP3, MPG/MPEG, MrSID, MRW, NEF, LM/NOL/NGG, OGG, ORF, PBM/PGM/PPM, PCX/DCX, PhotoCD, Mac PICT, PNG, PSD, PSP, QTIF, RAS/SUN, RAW, RAF, RA, RLE, SFF, SFW, SGI/RGB, SWF, TGA, TIF, TTF, TXT, WAD, WAV, WBMP, WBZ/WBC, WMA, WMV, XBM and XPM.
In addition it features drag and drop support, directory viewing, TWAIN scan support, slide shows, batch conversion, multi language support, thumbnail option, preview option, print option, IPTC edit, capturing, extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs, lossless JPG (Joint Photographic Expert Group) rotation, EXE/SCR creating, many hotkeys, many command line options and modifications such as changing color depth, crop, blur and sharpen.
IrfanView 4.72 changelog:
- New option in Batch dialog: Use Multithreading for conversion
- Note 1: Some old/third party PlugIns do NOT support multithreading!
- Note 2: Save format options with a preview do NOT support multithreading!
- Note 3: Multithreading uses (much) more system memory.
- New Edit menu: Restore last selection
- New zoom feature: CTRL + Middle mouse button click: Fit to window and back
- New option in EXIF dialog: Choose tags for the display (in Context menu)
- A confirmation dialog is shown for the wallpaper change menus
- New effect in Image->Effects menu: Stained Glass (thanks to Mathias Westerdahl)
- Add Border effects can work on selections
- New Add Border effects: Broken lines/frame
- New option in Export Tiles dialog: Add extra space to each tile
- New hotkey: CTRL + F4 = remove current file from slideshow list
- New command line option to replace color (like in dialog Replace Color)
- /replacecolor=(rOld,gOld,bOld,rNew,gNew,bNew,tolerance,transparency)
- New slideshow hotkeys (for timer slideshow):
- CTRL + SHIFT + "," (comma): Reduce timer by 0.5 sec
- CTRL + SHIFT + "." (point): Increase timer by 0.5 sec
- Support for more DNG subformats (CamRAW PlugIn, 64-bit only)
- Loading issues in CADImage PlugIn fixed (thanks to Trend Micro)