IrfanView
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IrfanView is an excellent graphic manipulation program for eBook graphics. It has a batch mode built in to adjust image sizes or other qualities. It is only available for Windows. It is a free program.
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[edit] Features
Some features include:
- Many supported file formats (click here for the list of formats)
- Multi-language support
- Thumbnail/preview option
- Paint option - to draw lines, circles, arrows, straighten image etc.
- Toolbar skins option for customization
- Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD) - make a picture eBook
- Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc.
- Modify or add EXIF/IPTC/Comment text (metadata)
- Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
- Fast directory view (moving through directory)
- Batch conversion (with advanced image processing)
- Batch mode using a GUI to select options for changes.
- Multipage TIF editing
- File search
- Email option
- Multimedia player
- Print option
- Support for embedded color profiles in JPG/TIF
- Change color depth
- Scan (batch scan) support
- Cut/crop
- Add overlay text/image (watermark)
- Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, straighten distorted images, etc.)
- Screen Capturing
- Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs
- Lossless JPG rotation, Lossless JPG cropping.
- Shell Extension PlugIn
- Unicode support
- Many hotkeys
- Many command line options
- Many PlugIns - well defined extensions capability
- Only one EXE-File, no DLLs
- No registry changes without user action/permission!
- Will use Ghostscript if present for PDF support. IrfanView can provide a graphic mode to rapidly view the first page of all the PDFs in a folder and provide a way to read them.
- Includes a preview thumbnail app.
[edit] Formats
[edit] Graphic Formats
| Extension | Format name | read | write |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANI, CUR | Animated Cursor | X | |
| AWD* | Artweaver format | X | |
| B3D* | BodyPaint 3D format | X | |
| BMP, DIB | Windows Bitmap, Device Independent Bitmap | X | X |
| CAM* | Casio digital camera format (JPG version only) | X | |
| CLP | Windows Clipboard | X | |
| CPT | CorelDraw Photopaint format (CPT version 6 only) | X | |
| CRW/CR2* | Canon RAW format | X | |
| DCM/ACR/IMA* | Dicom/ACR/IMA file format for medical images | X | |
| DCX | Multipage PCX format | X | |
| DDS* | Direct Draw Surface format | X | |
| DJVU, IW44* | DjVu File Format | X | |
| DXF* | Drawing Interchange Format, CAD format | X | |
| DXF, DWG, HPGL, CGM, SVG* | CAD Formats (Shareware PlugIns) | X | |
| ECW* | Enhanced Compressed Wavelet | X | X |
| EMF | Enhanced Metafile Format | X | X |
| EPS, PS, PDF, AI* | PostScript Formats (Ghostscript required) | X | |
| EXR* | EXR format | X | X |
| FITS* | Flexible Image Transport System | X | |
| FPX* | FlashPix format | X | |
| FSH* | EA Sports FSH format | X | |
| G3* | Group 3 Facsimile Apparatus format | X | |
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format | X | X |
| HDR* | High Dynamic Range format | X | |
| HDP, JXR, WDP* | JPEG-XR/Microsoft HD Photo format | X | |
| ICL, EXE, DLL | Icon Library formats | X | |
| ICO | Windows Icon | X | X |
| ICS* | Image Cytometry Standard format | X | |
| IFF, LBM* | Interchange File Format | X | |
| IMG* | GEM Raster format | X | |
| JP2, JPC, J2K* | JPEG 2000 format | X | X |
| JPG, JPEG | Joint Photographic Experts Group | X | X |
| JLS* | JPEG-LS, JPEG Lossless | X | X |
| JPM* | JPEG2000/Part6, LuraDocument.jpm | X | X |
| KDC* | Kodak digital camera format | X | |
| Mac PICT, QTIF* | Macintosh PICT format (Apple Quicktime required) | X | |
| MNG, JNG* | Multiple Network Graphics | X | |
| MRC* | MRC format | X | |
| MrSID, SID* | LizardTech's SID Wavelet format | X | |
| DNG, EEF, NEF, MRW, ORF, RAF, DCR, SRF/ARW, PEF, X3F, RW2, NRW* | Digital camera RAW formats (Adobe, Epson, Nikon, Minolta, Olympus, Fuji, Kodak, Sony, Pentax, Sigma) | X | |
| PBM | Portable Bitmap format | X | X |
| PCD | Kodak Photo CD | X | |
| PCX | PC Paintbrush format from ZSoft Corporation | X | X |
| PDF* | Portable Document format | X | X |
| PDN* | Paint.NET file format | X | |
| PGM | Portable Greymap format | X | X |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics | X | X |
| PPM | Portable Pixelmap format | X | X |
| PSD | Adobe PhotoShop format | X | |
| PSP* | Paint Shop Pro format | X | |
| PVR* | DreamCast Texture format | X | |
| RAS, SUN* | Sun Raster format | X | |
| RAW, YUV* | Raw (binary) data | X | |
| RLE* | Utah RLE format | X | |
| SFF* | Structured Fax File | X | |
| SFW* | Seattle Film Works format | X | |
| SGI, RGB* | Silicon Graphics format | X | |
| SIF* | SIF format | X | |
| SWF, FLV* | Macromedia Flash format | X | |
| TGA | Truevision Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter (TARGA) | X | X |
| TIF, TIFF | Tagged Image File Format | X | X |
| TTF* | True Type Font | X | |
| TXT | Text (ASCII) File (as image) | X | |
| VTF* | Valve Texture format | X | |
| WAD* | WAD3 Game format | X | |
| WAL* | Quake 2 textures | X | |
| WBC, WBZ* | Webshots formats | X | |
| WBMP* | WAP Bitmap format | X | |
| WebP* | Weppy file format | X | X |
| WMF | Windows Metafile Format | X | |
| WSQ* | Wavelet Scaler Quantization format | X | |
| XBM* | X11 Bitmap | X | |
| XCF* | GIMP file format | X | |
| XPM* | X11 Pixmap | X | |
| old formats* | Amiga, Atari, C64, ZX Spectrum etc. formats | X |
* = PlugIn required
[edit] Video/Audio Formats
| Extension | Format name | read | write |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIFF, AIF | Sound file, Audio Interchange Format | X | |
| AU, SND | Audio format used by Sun and NeXT machines | X | |
| MED* | MED/OctaMED sound format | X | |
| MID, MIDI | Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) | X | |
| MP3* | MPEG audio layer 3 format | X | |
| OGG* | OGG Vorbis sound format | X | |
| RA* | Real Audio sound format (Real Player required) | X | |
| WAV | Windows audio file | X | |
| ASF | Advanced Systems Format | X | |
| AVI | Audio Video Interleaved | X | |
| MOV*, MP4* | QuickTime Movie format (Apple Quicktime required) | X | |
| MPG, MPEG | Moving Pictures Experts Group format | X | |
| WMA, WMV | Windows Media Audio/Video format | X |
* = PlugIn required.
