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PicView 3.1.5

PicView is a fast, free and fully customizable image viewer for Windows 10 and 11. It supports a vast range of image file types, including WEBP, GIF, SVG, PNG, JXL, HEIC, PSD and many others. Additional features includes viewing EXIF metadata, image compression, batch resizing, viewing images within archives and comic books, image effects, image galleries, and more. Available in portable and installable versions.

PicView 3.1.5 changelog:

Improvements

  • Migration from ReactiveUI to R3: PicView now uses R3 instead of ReactiveUI for its application infrastructure. This results in:
  • Reduced File Size: The application's size reduced by approximately 34%.

Performance Enhancements

  • Rendering speed, especially when resizing the window, has been significantly improved.
  • Image Info Window
  • The Google and Bing map link buttons are now enabled only when longitude and latitude values are available from the image.
  • The "Optimize image" button is now disabled in the Image Info window when the format is unsupported.
  • Added the option to remove image metadata. This can be accessed in the context menu by right-clicking. (#211).

Context Menu

  • Simplified the set wallpaper function in the main context menu. The Fill, Fit, Center, and Tile options have been moved to the Image Info window's context menu.
  • Added a new context menu to the rotation button in the window's title bar. Clicking it now provides options to: Rotate to 0°, 90°, 180°, or 270°, as well as flip the image.
  • Fixed an issue where content in the context menu was not clickable in blank areas (#215).

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the image flipping function not working (#218).
  • Fixed a crash when removing the image's EXIF rating in the Image Info window (#219).
  • Fixed navigational errors when saving files outside the currently viewed directory.
  • Fixed the Previous button (in the bottom toolbar) not being triggered continuously when the pointer is held down.

Miscellaneous

  • Updated Avalonia to 11.3.2.
  • Updated Magick.NET to 14.7.0.
  • Updated ZLinq and ZLinq.FileSystem to 1.5.0.
  • Improved the Light theme (still a work in progress).
  • Renamed Clip-holder to Clipboard (#220).
  • Added support for decimal values in the Batch Resize window (#204).