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IrfanView

(www.irfanview.com)
520 points omnibrain | 12 comments | 30 Mar 24 13:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source | bottom
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knighthack ◴[30 Mar 24 18:56 UTC] No.39877578[source]▶
I've been using IrfanView since at least 1997, if not earlier in 1996.

I still use IrfanView to this day. It's my Swiss knife for a lot of simple photo editing work (cropping, resizing, padding, text-adding, etc), batch-processing, and for browsing single photos through directories.

It's not just good, it's way faster than the bloated alternatives.

To top it off, IrfanView works beautifully on my Linux via Wine, and also on my Mac M1/M2 machines (and as a tool quicker than even Mac's own Preview). It's a primary install for me, whichever any platform I'm working on; and a software that's truly a gift to the world.

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1. zerkten ◴[30 Mar 24 19:31 UTC] No.39877864[source]▶
How do you get it on macOS?
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2. millzlane ◴[30 Mar 24 19:54 UTC] No.39878040[source]▶
They're doing it via Wine.
3. vrinsd ◴[30 Mar 24 19:54 UTC] No.39878047[source]▶
If it's for non-commercial use, you might find this a spritual equivalent, cross-platform:

https://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/

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4. KronisLV ◴[30 Mar 24 20:56 UTC] No.39878577[source]▶
Can vouch that this is a nice piece of software, especially the batch convert options (everything from EXIF data, rescaling images and various other transformations, as well as either replacing the original files or various naming options) and supports a bunch of formats.
5. justin66 ◴[30 Mar 24 23:18 UTC] No.39879600[source]▶
This comment is baffling. Just so you know, the IrfanView license requires commercial users to pay for a license, just like XnView does. Apparently that's... bad?
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6. vrinsd ◴[31 Mar 24 04:15 UTC] No.39881390{3}[source]▶
I didn't remember what the IrfanView license was/is but IrfanView is not cross-platform which is what I was responding to with an alternative.
7. dewey ◴[31 Mar 24 09:07 UTC] No.39882637{3}[source]▶
How did the comment in any way make it sound bad?
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8. therealmarv ◴[31 Mar 24 09:54 UTC] No.39882847{3}[source]▶
also allowed in commercial settings (BSD style license):

Phoenix Slides https://blyt.net/phxslides/

open-source, ignore the simple web page, software is awesome.

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9. justin66 ◴[31 Mar 24 13:25 UTC] No.39884023{4}[source]▶
"If it's for non-commercial use."
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10. justin66 ◴[31 Mar 24 13:26 UTC] No.39884034{4}[source]▶
Thank God there's a BSD-licensed option. The notion that a business would pay to use software because the license requires it is just... appalling.
11. dewey ◴[31 Mar 24 13:35 UTC] No.39884110{5}[source]▶
That’s a neutral fact, not a negative spin.
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