Thursday, November 26, 2009

XnView v1.97 Beta 4 (Non-Commercial Freeware)


XnView is a cross-platform image viewer used for viewing, converting, organising and editing graphical & video files. It is free of charge for private non-commercial, educational use and non-profit organisations. It is popular with users as it provides many features normally found in commercial image viewers and it supports many image file formats that other powerful image organizers such as ACDSee do not.

HOMEPAGE: www.xnview.com

TYPE: (Non-Commercial Freeware)
DOWNLOAD: XnView v 1.96.5 (Stable)
Xn View v1.97 Beta 4

SIZE: 1.81 MB

GOOGLE HITS: 1.9 Millions +

XnView Features:

  • XnView is highly customisable and multi-lingual, supporting 44 languages in the Windows version.The language can be changed via the options menu. The toolbar buttons can be modified to a certain extent, or be replaced by altering skins.
  • Also, XnView has been able to support more and more file formats (mainly image file formats). It can read more than 400 image file formats, some audio and video file formats, and write 50 image file formats.XnView also supports ICC profiles in JPEG, PNG and TIFF files.
  • XnView can show IPTC, Exif and XMP metadata, and write IPTC metadata (but cannot do batch writing of IPTC metadata, and some users are longing for the batch IPTC editing function). A further limitation is that it currently does not allow to sort thumbnails within a folder by a user-defined order.
  • XnView can search files that have the same filename or data, and can search for similar graphics as well.
  • In addition, the display of the histogram of a picture is possible. And within a few mouse clicks, scripts can be created to convert, manipulate and rename a batch of images in one go.
  • Several image editing tools are included, for instance color and size manipulation, several filters and effects (full version even includes Harry's Filters 3.0). Lossless (without new encoding) turning, flipping and cropping of JPEG files is supported. Creation of advanced slideshows is possible as well. Furthermore, it can upload images to an FTP site or ImageShack, burn images to a CD or DVD (Nero Burning ROM required) with a few clicks (full version only).
  • The author no longer uses exe compressors to compress executables in the newest version, 1.95, after a long discussion about XnView 1.95 rc1 in the official forum.
  • XnView is accompanied by NConvert, a command line image conversion tool.

XnView Features:


+ Added:

  •  read XMP from PNG
  •  support of colour PNG with alpha
  •  [Scan]/newMethod added
  •  Slide show now support folder name
  •  'Edit GPS', exiftool must be copied in AddOn folder
  •  M2T
  •  RM
  •  Capture output filename
  •  Email dialog custom size
  •  TARGA bottom-up option
  •  Sort by folder & ratio
  •  Print Dialog, Checkbox for label
  •  Timestamp dialog, filename added
  •  EXIF colour space in info & thumbnail label
  •  Message when rotate 16bits picture
  •  [View]/OpenWithAsPNG
  •  Open container folder
  •  Relative zoom step
  •  Place holder for view title bar
  •  Recreate exif thumbnail after lossless cropping
  •  Decrement page number
  •  date template
  •  #ID_OUTPUT_FOLDER# for html create
  •  [Compare]/Text placeholder for displayed text
  •  Batch convert/'Add alpha'
  •  netbook ratio
  •  [Start]/RecentFilesMax & RecentDirsMax
  •  'Open output folder' in batch convert
  •  Thumbnail for cbr/cbz
  •  Shadow/Highlight in batch convert
  •  Backup option for lossless operation
  •  'E' key to save pictures from an EXE slideshow
  •  8 colors conversion is back
  •  'Rating number' & 'colour label number'
  •  Adobe Brush abr read support
  •  Quick convert menu in contextual menu
  •  CreateWithGarfield, Cheese format read support
  •  FunGraphicMachine Hires, Mono magic & Gigacad hires format read support
  •  Size auto placeholder
  •  Lossless rotation in batch convert
  •  Nikon RAW support
  •  INI filename in about dialog
  •  12 new icons for default toolbar
  •  NConvert: XNVIEW_GS_DLL (path of gsdll32.dll) & XNVIEW_GS_LIB (path of gs lib folder) environment var added for ghostscript
  •  NConvert: -add_alpha
  •  NConvert: $$ for folder name
  •  XnShell: Rotation
  •  XnShell: Convert menu can be removed
  •  XnShell: Custom app to open picture file
  •  XnShell: Save clipboard
  •  MediaDector: rw2 & mts
+ Changed:

  •  GPS opened in GeoHack
  •  Mouse position & alignment
  •  INI Color entry with # or $ are reversed
  •  Enhance 'Get Page' dialog
  •  Ctrl+A
  •  Timestamp dialog, Scrollbar instead of buttons
  •  Overwrite dialog
  •  Wiki used instead of chm help file

+ Fixed:

  •  TIFF 16bits
  •  Rating & colour label lost after renaming
  •  Category lost after renaming
  •  Writing GIF + comment
  •  NEF exif
  •  WDP thumbnail
  •  TIFF
  •  ANI 32bits
  •  APNG
  •  Frame number
  •  XBS script problem
  •  XBS saving
  •  Listing & EXIF date
  •  Listing & clipboard
  •  Resize dialog
  •  Enlarge 'copy to' dialog
  •  Resize Dialog
  •  Capture & delay
  •  Save dialog & mnemonic
  •  Wrong separator CSV listing
  •  NEF GPS
  •  "Add text" with '&'
  •  Export dialog, 100% used by default
  •  Batch convert history, check if exist
  •  colors to 32bits conversion
  •  Plugins dialog
  •  Slide & multipage
  •  Sort by type
  •  High zoom quality in compare dialog
  •  Resize dialog & 2560x1600
  •  PCD dimensions without pcd plugin
  •  DPX & folder thumbnail
  •  Toolbar icon not update after "stop animation"
  •  Extract alpha
  •  Comment dialog, setting not restored
  •  embedded thumbnail
  •  Shortcut not aligned
  •  File size & listing
  •  Animated GIF
  •  Animated GIF & slideshow
  •  Align histogram in batch convert
  •  Rating&ColourLabel in batch rename
  •  GPS&ICC icon
  •  View auto image size menu
  •  Slide & video move
  •  Slide & video not centered
  •  Zoom indicator
  •  Crash in Adobe plugin with grey picture
  •  Deleting selected/tagged dialog
  •  Category pane & selection
  •  'Save change' dialog size
  •  Export & Next/Prev file
  •  Dithering grey in batch processing
  •  APNG
  •  TIFF
  •  filesize > 2Gb
  •  Capture with multiple screen
  •  Position not restored on multiple screen
  •  IPTC->XMP
  •  Animated file + Paint plugin
  •  Canvas resize "as delta"
  •  SGI grey+alpha
  •  Utah RLE alpha
  •  XPM with number of colors > 1000
  •  XWD
  •  PSD & alpha when no layer
  •  "Browser>Fullscreen>Viewer" & system icon
  •  'Batch convert', reload script with 'convert to truecolors'
  •  EXIF problem on RAW
  •  EXIF exposure value
  •  Batch convert & 3DBorder
  •  PDF write full path in title field
  •  NConvert: Floyd dithering missing
  •  XnShell: NT4 menu problem
  •  XnShell: Convert & resize
  •  MediaDetector: JPEG not imported
  •  MediaDetector: lower extension
  •  MediaDetector: folder created before import
  •  MediaDetector: thumbnail creation stopped on import

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