Irfanview
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IrfanView version 4.33 showing a photo of Schloss Ort
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| Developer(s) | Irfan Skiljan |
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| Initial release | 1 June 1996 |
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4.44 / 20 December 2016
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| Development status | Active |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Size | 2.03 MB (IrfanView) 15.47 MB (Plugins) |
| Available in | English, German (included) Other languages available as download. |
| Type | Image viewer |
| License | Proprietary, free for non-commercial use |
| Website | www |
IrfanView (/ˈɪərfænvjuː/) is an image viewer, editor, organiser and converter program for Microsoft Windows. It can also play video and audio files, and has some image creation and painting capabilities. IrfanView is free for non-commercial use; commercial use requires paid registration. It is noted for its small size, speed, ease of use, and ability to handle a wide variety of graphic file formats. It was first released in 1996.
IrfanView is named after its creator, Irfan Skiljan, from Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, living in Vienna. IrfanView works under all versions of Windows from Windows 95 to Windows 10 and can also be run in Linux under Wine and in Mac OS X using WineBottler.
The basic 32-bit installation of IrfanView occupies 2 MB of disk space, and a full install with all optional plugins requires about 17 MB - with the 64-bit versions taking up more space. The program can be downloaded directly to a U3 compatible device.
IrfanView is specifically optimized for fast image display and loading times. It supports viewing and saving of numerous file types including image formats such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, JP2 & JPM (JPEG2000), PNG (includes the optimizer PNGOUT; APNG can be read), TIFF, raw photo formats from digital cameras, ECW (Enhanced Compressed Wavelet), EMF (Enhanced Windows Metafile), FSH (EA Sports format), ICO (Windows icon), PCX (Zsoft Paintbrush), PBM (Portable BitMap), PDF (Portable Document Format), PGM (Portable GrayMap), PPM (Portable PixelMap), TGA (Truevision Targa), WebP and viewing of media files such as Flash, Ogg Vorbis, MPEG, MP3, MIDI, and text files.
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