IrfanView 3.36
Andy Boze · Information Technology and Libraries · 2001
IrfanView 3.36 Irfan Skiljan Postfach 6 2752 Woellersdorf Austria, Europe www.irfanview.com Price: free System requirements: Windows 95 or higher Good things often come in small packages. IrfanView is certainly a case in point. Its main function is to view files of various graphics formats. Although it's not a full-featured graphics editor, it can manipulate your images in various ways. You can also convert images from one format to another, either individually or in a batch. And perhaps most surprisingly, IrfanView can view various types of audio and multimedia files, too, and even play audio CDs. IrfanView is simple to install. You download a ZIP file from the author's Web site. Unzip the file into the directory of your choice and the program is ready to run. If you'd rather, you can download an installer, which does all the setup for you and makes desktop and menu shortcuts if you want it to do so. You can use the program to view just about any kind of graphics file, from the common GIF, JPG, and BMP to multipage TIFF and Shockwave files. IrfanView also handles Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop, and more unusual types such as DjVu and Kodak Digital Camera files. A useful feature for some will be the ability to view icons embedded in EXE, DLL, and CPL files and to view cursor files, even animated ones. In addition to graphics, IrfanView can be used to view multimedia files including Real Audio, MPEG, Quick Time, and numerous sound formats. It's often tedious in Windows to associate particular types of files with the programs you want to open them. IrfanView has an easy setup that lets you associate any of its supported file types with it. From then on, in an Explorer window you can double click any file type you selected, and the file will open in IrfanView. If you decide that you'd rather reassociate the file type with whatever program previously opened it, all you need to do is unselect the association in IrfanView. Of course, you can open any supported file from IrfanView's File Open dialog, or you can simply drag a file with your mouse onto IrfanView's window. People who work with large numbers of graphics files will find the Thumbnails and Slideshow features handy. The thumbnail viewer is reminiscent of the two-pane Windows Explorer window. When you open the thumbnail viewer, you can navigate to any folder from the left pane, and all of the supported files in the folder will be displayed as thumbnail images in the right pane. You can select one or more thumbnails and then choose from any of several operations. The selected thumbnails can be saved as a single file or as individual thumbnail images. IrfanView can also create an HTML page of your thumbnail images. …