About 2 months ago I came across an image viewer (LazView) which was in early phase of development (alpha), it had bugs, it lacked features but I saw that the program had potential so I started testing it and sending feedback to the developer- Reinier Romero Mir. After testing 7 early versions now I can say that the program has improved a lot- the developer has fixed many bugs and has implemented many of my suggestions. While still being beta LazView has already become relatively stable and it can be used on a regular basis. It is a simple image viewer yet it has most of the features I need. More- it is cross platform, open source and portable, it supports Exif and handles animated images (both GIF and PNG) right.
Synopsis
FeaturesLazView is a simple image viewer written in FreePascal and Lazarus IDE.
- Support for common graphic formats;
- Support for animated images (GIF and PNG);
- Basic image manipulation (rotate, resize, effects);
- Thumbnail panel (with customizable thumbnail size);
- Exif support (automatic rotation, Exif information);
- Full screen;
- Always on top;
- Slide show;
- Zoom;
- Compact mode;
- Context menu;
- File browser;
- Shortcut keys;
- Special buttons for animated images;
- Print support;
- Multilingual (currently available in English and Spanish);
- Cross platform (available for Windows and Linux);
- Project - SourceForge
- Project - GitHub
- Download
- License
- Issues
- Publisher - SourceForge
- Publisher - GitHub
- Publisher
Direct download links for LazView version 0.1.0.2894 - 0.1.0.2895 (released on 2018-10-22): Images
LazView version 0.1.0.2894 - program window (static image):
LazView version 0.1.0.2894 - menu bar (animated image):
LazView version 0.1.0.2894 - file browser (static image):
LazView version 0.1.0.2894 - context menu (animated image):
LazView version 0.1.0.2894 - context menu - effects (static image):
LazView version 0.1.0.2894 - compact mode (static image):
LazView version 0.1.0.2894 - playing animated PNG file (animated image):
LazView version 0.1.0.2894 - playing animated PNG file (animated image):
LazView version 0.1.0.2894 - playing animated PNG file (animated image):
LazView version 0.1.0.2894 - playing animated PNG file (animated image):
LazView version 0.1.0.2894 - effects (static image):
LazView version 0.1.0.2894 - exif (static image):
LazView version 0.1.0.2894 - about (static image):
Portability
LazView supports portable mode- before runnung the program an empty INI file (lazview.ini) should be created in program folder, otherwise it will be saved in AppData (C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\LazView\lazview.ini).
Instructions
- Download either x32 version (LazView_win32.zip) or x64 version (LazView_win64.zip) of the program;
- Extract the archive to a folder of your choice;
- Create an empty lazview.ini file in program folder;
- Run the executable (lazview.exe);
I presume that the program should run under Windows XP or higher.
License
LazView is licensed under GNU General Public License v2.0.
Note
- LazView is written in Free Pascal.
- LazView is small- the x32 version is 1.68 MB comprssed and 3.69 MB uncompressed, the x64 version is 1.94 MB compressed and 5.01 MB uncompressed.
- The memory usage may vary vastly depending on the number of images inside the browsed folder.
- The developer- Reinier Romero Mir, is open to suggestions.
- The developer- Reinier Romero Mir, is the author of AWGG download manager, which has already been reviewed in the forum.
A couple of programs with similar functionality:
- HoneyView
- QuickViewer
File details for LazView version 0.1.0.2894 - 0.1.0.2895 (released on 2018-10-22):
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x32 version (0.1.0.2895):
Name: LazView_win32.zip
File Size: 1767899 Byte(s) (1.69 MB)
Modified Date: 2018-10-22 19:28
MD5: d46e4557692fc9c8cf8382994ae8a0b1
SHA1: 4b18c7272fe8dc39b4ee0745fb524046f74d672c
SHA256: 965252a5349e14527fc962690177557a7b035b5712fa92c1ece950fec640343c
SHA384: b1bcedbaebb531b37ef1b87098627b24775ada6817d0fc337cc5c7cb7f9563576937d26807b82fe82bc9dfc4906da57a
SHA512: 571cd0c095341c07afd416e371b451ff7b45ab4dc00df35985aa38bdc7fe9837fa1bd9bd1eb1fae4af7e7cbe9a8a53d8f7abb1c40da9e9d9f6125f9ab0f5188d
RIPEMD160: 84462d9a48e0fc4583d7a2b11ec589a6226b070a
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x64 version (0.1.0.2894):
Name: LazView_win64.zip
File Size: 2044361 Byte(s) (1.95 MB)
Modified Date: 2018-10-22 19:21
MD5: 2804646d1f59985a27a500e6c1932df7
SHA1: fbdd684692661690e2f63736c2118d3d1bbc2759
SHA256: 0e0bd36fd6fefb2f43351a5828c78e374f53ac75a1aebf55f2df1a9fb73e19eb
SHA384: 45fdc0606d2b2bade4859227c64c22466d5b1f8fd96bf9a185968414351347b0a580212017b757d07cc18fd588d810bd
SHA512: c919a49f33670f1e153757136474c3a79b1bd01ba1f16b44317904f39eff558de2a5e8c3be0399881d07141586fe567ca2a3dbb9abdd6edc9835daa0934649ff
RIPEMD160: 350796275e3f9f7d30e75992d575f349787e8184
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