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STDU Viewer v1.6.375

Checker on 27 Apr 2015
  • 9MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 27 Apr 2015
  • Suggested by joby_toss

STDU (Scientific and Technical Documentation Utility) Viewer is intended to combine a variety of document, text, and graphics format viewers into one. The program includes a modern tabbed interface, search, rotate, thumbnail view, etc. The program can also export pages to an image file, create bookmarks, and more.

Primarily supporting formats used (as the program name suggests) for scientific/technical docs (TIFF, PDF, DjVu, XPS, and JBIG2), the program also supports a variety of others including FB2, Comic Book Archive (CBR or CBZ), TCR, PalmDoc(PDB), MOBI, AZW, EPub, DCX and both standard and specialized image formats (PCX, WMF, EMF, PSD).

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: GDIPLUS.DLL only on Windows 2000
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware for private or educational use -- commercial users must register.
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch STDUViewerApp.exe.
What's new?
  • Fix minor bugs.
Latest comments
hamasaki on 2015-04-28 03:10

Doesn`t work half the time, keeps saying the epub file is corrupt. Yet, they open in Sumatra and just about any other epub viewer with no issues.

Specular on 2017-11-15 14:16

Anyone know security-wise if this is still worth using? It's now been more than two years without an update and I wonder what the risk to using it is, vs say Adobe Reader with its never-ending vulnerabilities.

webfork on 2017-11-19 18:17

@Specular: I think if you're asking a question like that, it's probably wise to use an updated viewer. There have been a few PDF vulnerabilities over the past year, but I think you have to enable various Adobe-only extras that I don't think STDU has in it's program.

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CDisplay Ex 1.10.29

webfork on 14 Sep 2016
  • 14MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by macdaddy88

Note: this program's portability and status as freeware is under review. Proceed with caution.

CDisplay Ex is an image viewer optimized for displaying comics. Includes a minimalistic interface with a wide variety of view options including rotation, slideshow, resizing, thumbnails, smooth scrolling, and more. The program aims for fluid and comfortable reading on even slow computers. Includes a color filter to improve the look of older comics and customizable keyboard shortcuts.

The program aims to be an updated version of the defunct CDisplay and supports most standard image types including JPEG, PNG, GIF and BMP. Many archive formats can be viewed without extraction including CBR, CBZ, CB7, CBT, RAR, ZIP, TAR, 7Z, LZH, ARJ, CAB, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, PDF, DJVU, etc.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder: cdisplayex.db
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract to a temporary folder
  2. Move files from {app} to a folder of your choice
  3. Launch cdisplayex.exe
Note: If you have issues running the program, you may need to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable
Similar/alternative apps: HoneyView3, ComicsViewer
What's new?
    1.10.29
  • Vibrance color correction.
  • PDF: Fixed some incompatibilities with various file formats.
  • PDF: Fixed Anti-Aliased Fonts.
  • Updated Webp v4.1.
  • translation: Vietnamese

See http://www.cdisplayex.com/releasenotes.
Latest comments
joby_toss on 2014-12-08 06:44

@Loonier: please see the forum topic for additional info.

Midas on 2014-12-08 12:35

... especially http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=72248#p72248 ...

I'm now convinced the newly found CDisplay Ex innounp extract fail is definitely an adware countermeasure -- please find an alternative viewer if you can...

Checker on 2015-06-06 17:07

CDisplay Ex is on v1.10.30, but uniextraction fails (with innounp 0.42).

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SpReader v1.4.9.1

Midas on 17 Nov 2014
  • 600KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by I am Baas

SpReader is an image viewer for displaying page spread for example from a comic or magazine that has two files for each pane of a full spread or a picture cut into two parts for size. The images within ZIP can be displayed directly.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Create an empty file SpReader.ini within this folder
  3. Launch SpReader.exe
What's new? Google Translate(d) changelog:

    Version 1.4.9.1 (2014-11-15)
  • Problems that occur in language change or the like, fix the other.

(Japanese original at http://www.vieas.com/en/software/spr_his.html)

RecursiView v1.0.3

webfork on 15 Aug 2015
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 5 Dec 2013
  • Suggested by Checker

RecursiView is an image viewer that will allow you to load a folder and all its subfolders at one time. This can be handy when you have your images organized into folders but you don't want to have to click through each folder to view them.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch RecursiView.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Irfanview (Thumbnails function)
What's new?
  • Date column was not sorting properly.
  • Added a Cancel button to cancel image loading and thumbnail generation.
Latest comments
webfork on 2013-04-06 03:23

This made digging through a boatload of images I'd built up SO much easier. There's just no other way to navigate thousands of icon files. It almost forms a kind of catalog so I have a clear idea of what's available.

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NexusImage v1.1.3.992

billon on 18 Jan 2021
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 24 Feb 2013
  • Suggested by Napiophelios

NexusImage is a simple, lightweight image viewer with basic edit functions including rotate, flip, and caption. The program dims your desktop when in focus, has easy scrolling with thumbnails, and includes includes Exif (metadata) viewer, smoothing mode, and more.

Supports most common image formats including JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, TIFF, ICO, WMF, JP2, and the various JPEG2000 image types.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\Applications\NexusImage.exe
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch NexusImage.exe.

Optionally, delete unnecessary language files.
Similar/alternative apps: JPEGView, HoneyView
What's new?
  • Improved: Keyborad Shortcuts
    Previous Image: Down or Right arrow
    Next Image: Up or Left arrow
    Zoom In: + or Z
    Zoom Out: - or Shift + Z
  • Added: Show in Explorer
  • Added: Flip Horizontal/Vertical
  • Added: Edit with function. You can add editors and open an image you are viewing with one of those editors.
    Shift + Click an editor if you want to edit or delete an editor.
  • Added: Show/Hide StatusBar function. You can view images without titlebar and statusbar.
  • Improved: Menu structure changed.
Latest comments
Midas on 2014-07-03 23:53

@Specular: edited, please test...

Specular on 2014-07-05 10:37

@Midas works fine now, thanks.

juverax on 2021-07-18 19:37

Note that NexusImage v.1.1.3.992 tries to connect to the internet.
It was blocked by my firewall (simplewall: https://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=3011 )

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Fullscreen Photo Viewer v2.2

Midas on 2 Dec 2017
  • 155KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Wolfghost

Fullscreen Photo Viewer is a program designed for high-quality viewing of high-resolution pictures. It renders the image using advanced scaling algorithm to fit the resolution of your monitor, supports most common graphics formats, and can open images recursively (e.g. z:\images\01, z:\images\02, etc.).

Includes experimental 3D image and TGA file format view capability.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Fullscreen Photo Viewer.exe.
What's new?
  • added support for newest version of MBM file format.
  • added support for true stereoscopic files (click link for details). Red-cyan glasses needed.
  • fixed color management routine to work correctly with multithreaded version.

Full changelog at http://www.4neurons.com/other/FPV/versions.php.
Latest comments
rodger123 on 2012-10-29 01:27

Not too shabby,dont like the close button or the left right arrows but it works well,images larger than your screen resoultion wont be shown fullscreen.

Midas on 2012-10-29 11:31

You can turn those off by pressing the keyboard 'F11', rodger123...

rodger123 on 2012-10-29 13:24

Thanks Midas-I should read the instructions better!

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CoView v1.0.51

webfork on 30 Jun 2015
  • 440KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by freakazoid

CoView is an image viewer that focuses on viewing comics. It supports special comic archives such as CBR and CBZ, but also standard archives like ZIP or simply saved in folders. Browsing and reading are similar to turning pages and a zoom tool lets you see more detail. Bookmarking lets you continue reading where you left off.

Note: Links broken ... linking to Softpedia.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the portable EXE to a folder of your choice. Launch CoView_portable.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: Manga Meeya
Latest comments
DG on 2011-08-08 15:25

Oops, scratch my comment about the F2 directory, it did end up opening a directory in the temp folder. However, upon exiting the program, I went back to the "C:/DocumentsAndSettings/LocalSettings//temp/" folder and the temporary directory it created was gone.

Emka on 2014-12-06 07:11

Links seem to be broken

Checker on 2014-12-06 10:41

@ Emka: Linked to Softpedia.

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MycView v1.5.16

webfork on 5 Apr 2016
  • 50KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 19 Jul 2012
  • Suggested by I am Baas

MycView automatically displays a slide show of all the pictures of a given directory in full screen mode. Reads a variety of file formats including JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, DIB, RLE, PNM, EMF, WMF, ICO, CUR file formats, as well as list LST files, SLD (XnView).

Other features:
- Automatic closing at the end of the slideshow with the parameter "/c"
- Display in a window or full screen with the key "f"
- Opening a new file with the keystrokes "Ctrl-O"
- Opening a new directory with the keystrokes "Ctrl-D".
- Number of loops defined with the parameter "/l"
- Number of seconds per image defined with the parameter "/s".
- Open the context menu with the Middle-click or "Ctrl-M"
- Change the background color with the option "/b"
- Automatic rotation with the exif information.
- Browse images with thumbnails

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch mycview.exe.
What's new?
  • Added: The parameter "SearchPath=0" (INI file) disables the research in folders if the program does not find images at startup.
  • Added: New Search Folders for Windows XP :
    DE = "\Dokumente und Einstellungen\All Users\Eigene Dateien\Eigene Bilder\"
    IT = "\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documenti\Immagini\Immagini campione\"
    SV = "\Användare\All Users\Dokument\Mina bilder\Exempelbilder\"
  • Changed: If the program can not find any image, it opens the window for selecting a new file.
  • Changed: Optimization of dynamic resizing of the window.
  • Fix: Wrong width of the thumbnails, when the original folder is empty.
  • Fix: If the INI file does not exist, the window opens with coordinates to zero.
  • Fix: Incorrect offset in the dynamic construction of the menu.
Latest comments
Midas on 2012-07-11 10:13

@MnX: nice find. :)

AdrianK_IT on 2012-07-20 19:25

Almost perfect! All it lacks is the ability to run a slideshow in random order.

AdrianK_IT on 2015-03-17 15:30

Been experimenting with this app again; was looking for a simple slideshow viewer that responded well to voice commands, for use with a Windows 8.1 tablet. Very good for that; still would like to see a random order option.

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Universal Viewer Free v5.7.2.0

billon on 8 Dec 2020
  • 10MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 26 Jan 2015
  • Suggested by dasfx

Universal Viewer can open many different formats including text, binary, rich text, images (including Photoshop), videos, audio, etc. Many office formats including PDF, DJVU, and MS Word / Excel. The program can open large text files, such as log files, very quickly and without eating memory.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Liteware
How to extract:
  1. Download the Portable ZIP package to a folder of your choice
  2. Create empty text file and name it Portable.ini in that folder
  3. Launch Viewer.exe
What's new?
  • Added support for CHM + 5 e-book formats
  • Added Unicode filelist handling
Latest comments
Midas on 2015-07-07 12:43

@Checker: fair enough, let the discrepancy between releases stand... :)

ripu on 2015-12-24 06:22

This is the fastest PDF viewer. Awesome for high graphics magagine kind of PDFs. I have a lower mid range laptop. Universal viewer throws sumatra, pdfxcange, foxit out of water when it comes to speed of loading one after another high graphics page. And it's the lightest of all the PDF viewers I have tested, uses minimal CPU unlike others I have mentioned.

ripu on 2015-12-24 06:46

Ignore my previous comment. I am an idiot. It actually uses an old version of Sumatra, which was faster and lighter.

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Osiva v1.30

webfork on 5 Apr 2016
  • 212KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by AlephX

Osiva is a small and fast image viewer with a drag-and-drop interface that can scale, zoom, pan, rotate, sort images quickly. It can create slideshows, animations, and dissolve effects.

Category:
Runs on:Win98 / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: none
Stealth: ? Yes
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the EXE to a folder of your choice. Launch osiva.exe.
What's new? Version 1.3.0
Theoretically the same as 1.2.17, but with the source code
scrubbed for release. This is built from the GPL'd code,
available in the companion directory.


Version 1.2.17
The idea to hide the iconbar when focus is lost was a bad one.
This version does *not* hide the iconbar automatically.
Latest comments
webfork on 2011-12-27 08:33

Emka: Thanks -- updated.

Kent Stork on 2012-01-22 23:15

Sorry, I just noticed the noping.net site was down. The program is now avalable at http://www.tristable.net/osiva/. The source code is also available there, Osiva is now under the GPL.

I am Baas on 2012-01-23 01:28

@Kent Stork
Thank you. Links updated. I noticed Osiva is at version 1.30 but the file size is much smaller compared with the version listed on the portable freeware collection. Could you post a changelog, please? Also, I understand Osiva is free and gpl'd but what about "If you use Osiva please send me an email"? Is it mandatory? Cheers.

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