There were numerous updates, here are only the more important things. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 2.40 - Support for TIFFs with the JPEG compression (read/write) - The bug with some LZW-TIFFs is fixed (incorrect colors) - Support for TIFFs with separated color channels (read) - Support for YCbCr-TIFFs (read) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 2.37 - Brightness/Contrast dialog: CANCEL-button is available - New option: 'Edit palette' (display and change image palette) - New options in 'Properties->GIF', choose transparent GIF color (palette index) - Some minor bugs fixed --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 2.35 - Support for PBM/PGM/PPM file formats (binary only) - Support for Amiga IFF/LBM format - Save GIFs with transparent (background) color (=black) - The 'minimize bug' is now fixed ;-) - New menu item: 'MRUDs' = 'most recently used directories' (Menu: 'File') (IrfanView can remember the last 5 viewing directories) - New option: 'Remember last window position' in 'properties->others' --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 2.32 - Play animated GIFs in normal window ! (no fullscreen more :-) - Improved GIF-Saving (save as 1 and 4 bits-per-pixel) - Saving file as PCX - Support for CMYK TIFFs - Enabled copy/move files in the fullscreen mode (F8/F7) - Remember the last viewing/saving directory - Remember the last window position - New options for slideshow: load/save slideshow, pause (press 'Pause') - New option: 'Always on Top' --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 2.30 - PREVIEW option ('File->Open'), doesn't work with WMF/EMF and AVI ! - Support for multiple Icons (1,4,8,16,24 and 32 bits-per-pixel) - The bug with 'Properties' under WinNT 4.0 Service-Pack-2 is fixed - New options for slideshow (see 'slideshow') --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 2.27 - New feature: SLIDESHOW :-) How to use? You can add files to the slideshow list with: - Drag & Drop (select one or more files ...) - Select one or more files and press the 'ADD' button - Double click on the filename - Some minor bugs fixed --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 2.25 - New features: converting to greyscale, negative, brightness and contrast - Bugs with some BMPs are fixed (new decompression routine :-) - New menu item: 'Refresh directory' -> update of directory indexes (hotkey: 'U') - New option in 'Properties->MultipleGIF': "None" (for no animation) - New hotkey: 'Shift+R' for "Reopen" - Double click on left mouse button -> Fullscreen - Click on left mouse button -> load previous image (in fullscreen mode only !) - Click on right mouse button -> load next image (in fullscreen mode only !) - New registration price: 10 USD or 15,- DEM ;-) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 2.22 - Support for some special JPEGs (Adobe ...) - improved rotating left/right for black/white and 16-color images - improved Drag&Drop (IrfanView changes immediately to the target directory :-) - The option: 'Always fit to desktop for big images' is available again :-) - Bugs with some GIFs and PCXs are fixed - The animated-GIF dialog moved to 'Properties->Multiple GIF' :-) - Jump to the first/last file (after reaching last/first image in directory, IrfanView jumps to the first/last image in directory) - New option: 'Ask to rename if incorrect extension' (in 'Other options') - Some minor bugs fixed --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 2.20 - The BIGGEST IrfanView Bug is fixed !!! :-) (now you can resize images to any size you wish without deformations and cache contents inserted in the picture) - Support for 16-bpp (BitsPerPixel) BMPs/DIBs and 16-bpp TIFs (read only) - Better horizontal flip for black/white images - The option: 'Always fit to desktop for big images' is not more available - The IrfanView-Code was again optimized :) => the EXE file is smaller - And I have a new home page :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 2.18 - The bug with corrupted GIFs is fixed - Support for Multipage-TIFFs with more than 256 pages (pictures) - New options in "Properties->extensions": 'Select all' and 'Clear all' - Support for (*.SUN) extension (=RAS, Sun Raster Images) - Modifikations in About-Box --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 2.17 - Multipage-TIFF support ! (One of the first viewers with multipage TIFF support) - Support for 'Exif'-JPEGs - New option in "Properties->Copy/Move/Save": default 'save as' directory - Rename-question for files with incorrect extension - The Multiple-GIF timer is now much better :) - Some minor bugs fixed (very large GIFs, 'paste->save as') --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 2.15 - Multiple (animated) GIF Support ! IrfanView is the first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple GIF support. (One known bug: with some specially transparency combinations) Much fun :) - New menu: Convert to 256 colors (for true color images only) - Some WMF bugs are fixed (with old (Win 3.x) WMFs) - Now: "Save as" with lower case names - And you can copy my E-Mail address from "About-Box" :) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 2.12 - The GIF-Decompression is now totally rewritten ! I hope without bugs :) - Windows metafiles support (WMF=Windows Metafile and EMF=Enhanced Metafile) - Command line support for AVIs (Fullscreen for AVI is not available) - Some minor bugs fixed (startbar, extensions etc.) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 2.10 - Print support - "Always fit to desktop" was changed to "Always fit to desktop for big images" - Some minor bugs fixed (GIFs, rotate under WinNT, overlapping) - NEW ! Command line options: /one, /fs, /bf, /pos=(x,y), /title=text : /one - force "only one instance" /fs - force Full Screen /bf - force Best Fit /title=text - set window title /pos=(x,y) - move the window to x,y Notes: - Only lower case options are supported: Examples: i_view32 test.bmp /BF = incorrect i_view32 test.bmp /bf /title=My PIC = correct --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 2.07 - AVI support (video for windows) - Jump to first/last file in the directory (CTRL+F,CTRL+L) - New option: always fit to desktop (properties->other options) - Finally: "Save as", non-extension support - Read support for extensions: *.jpeg, *.tiff - Correct displaying of all Photo-CD files (rotate) - Copy/move/delete windows - Copying/moving: Replace question if the file exists (replace of read-only files) - More hotkeys (rotate, flip, properties, image info etc.) - Some minor bugs fixed (GIF,RAS) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 2.05 - Edit options (Copy/Paste/Delete/Clear Clipboard) - New in "Properties->Other options": allow Only 1 instance of IrfanView32 - Read-Header function is implemented, warning if incorrect extension - Some fast-directory-view bugs fixed (like: last image) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 2.00 - Progressive JPEG support (read/save) - Alphabetical sorting of images in directory - Some minor bugs fixed --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 1.99 - New fast directory view ! This part is now totally rewritten; no more lost files and uncomplete lists. Files are shown in the order how they stay in FAT, that means unsorted. Coming in next release: sorting files in alphabetical order. - Fixed bugs with some ICOs, and compressed BMPs --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 1.98a - Fixed bug with 256-colour-ICO - Fixed bugs with fit-to-desktop and resize - New menu outfit - Zoom percentage shown in title bar - Positioning window somewhere else than top left corner (biggest known bug: IrfanView still can NOT correctly resize images whose dimensions exceed actual screen resolution; if you do not want to cut edges of your image, void saving in this situation) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 1.98 - Viewing ICO - Zooming in and out (known bug: zooming in large images works till now only up to 500 %) - Resize image --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 1.97 - Viewing RAS - Fixed some bugs with fast directory view and GIF --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 1.95 - Viewing TGA - Image flip/rotate - Image copy/move to another directory - New tab-dialogs (Menu: Options->Properties) - IrfanView32 doesn't support Win32s any more --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 1.90 - Viewing Photo CD - "Fast directory view" (jump to next image in the current directory with space, to previous with backspace) - Set image as wallpaper --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 1.85 - Windows 95-dialogs (open/save file) - Viewing 2 bits per pixel PNG - Saving file as TIFF --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 1.80 - Viewing PCX and RLE - Viewing grayscale TIFF - Fixed some bugs with GIF --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 1.70 - Viewing TIFFs (uncompressed, LZW, packbits, Huffmann, fax group 3, fax group 4) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------