FocusOn Image Viewer

[billon]

http://www.pintosoft.com/en/foni

Yet another Korean image viewer, something between Imagine and FastStone Image Viewer

Lightweight and fast free image viewer for Windows
Quickly view and simply edit photos
Free for everyone - personal and commercial use
Automatically organize your pictures by date
Edit photos without damaging the original
Sharing photos on Blogs, Twitter, Facebook
Over 100 image formats supported

Can read/write PDF/AI/EPS/PS and XPS (if Ghostscript is installed)
Based on Image Magick, so supports many image formats, full list
E.g., can read/write SVG

[Midas]

Nice find, billon.

FocusOn Image Viewer (Foni[?]) is a well rounded image utility in briefest testing, focusing in ease of use and online integration with blogs, email, twitter and Facebook. From the start, SVG capability is worth a feather in its cap.

IMHO, with some further tweaking of its interface (see below) it might evolve into a perfect option for the purpose...






Current version is v1.8 -- the first natively portable it seems, according to changelog (see http://www.pintosoft.com/en/post/foni1.8_en).

BTW, the main download link will only yield the installer; you'll have to click further down on the "portable" text to get the archives.

Wishlist:
- ability to launch directly into full screen viewer;
- customization of the toolbar (buttons shown/order, small/large icons, text labels/tooltips);
- customization of thumbnail viewer backgrounds...

[__philippe]

@Midas

Pretty nice illustration of FocusOn ImageViewer capabilities.
Shame this tool does not display Exif|IPTC metadata as well. Until it does, I'll gladly stick with good ole Imagine...

BTW,
Could you resize the screenshot to fit the customary page width, Pretty Please ?

[Midas]

Shame this tool does not display Exif|IPTC metadata as well. Until it does, I'll gladly stick with good ole Imagine...

Oh, but it does: try "Shift+I" and see how you fare...

BTW, Could you resize the screenshot to fit the customary page width, Pretty Please?

Granted!

[__philippe]

• Oh, but it does: try "Shift+I" and see how you fare...

Oh boy, do I fare well indeed with this new toy !...

"Shift+I" alone uncovers several nifty, intuitive functions :

• Adjust (Manual) Brightness | Contras | Gamma | Color temp | Red | Green | Blue
• Filter  Auto-Adjust | Sharpen | Blur | Monochrome | and more...
• Text    Insert any text and move it at will within an image
• Exif    Display full exif metadata

Also, the file selection pane includes a "Text-filter", very handy for quick file lookup
(would have preferred a case-insensitive search, tho...)

All in all, a most valuable trove in a long while !

Give our man billon a cigar !

• ...(screenshot resize request)...Granted!

Ta ! Feeling much relieved already

[__philippe]

...BTW, the main download link will only yield the installer; you'll have to click further down on the "portable" text to get the archives.

Alternatively, one can just unpack the installer, for instance:

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C:7z x FocusOnIV_1.8_en.exe

7-Zip 9.22 beta  Copyright (c) 1999-2011 Igor Pavlov  2011-04-18

Processing archive: FocusOnIV_1.8_en.exe

Extracting  $PLUGINSDIR\System.dll
Extracting  $PLUGINSDIR\UAC.dll
Extracting  $PLUGINSDIR\nsDialogs.dll
Extracting  $PLUGINSDIR\modern-wizard.bmp
Extracting  $PLUGINSDIR\modern-header.bmp
Extracting  Uninstall.exe
Extracting  ImageMagick_LICENSE.txt
Extracting  ImageMagick_NOTICE.txt
Extracting  vcomp140.dll
Extracting  foni1033.dll
Extracting  fonires.dll
Extracting  fimage.dll
Extracting  foni.exe

Everything is Ok

Files: 13
Size:       14050803
Compressed: 4285784

[__philippe]

Wonder if anyone else noticed FocusonImageViewer keeps creating multiple "magick-1.*" files
differentiated by a seemingly random string extension, such as:

• magick-1.357720872715uAQFXpJLu8iL
  magick-1.357720872715-_HQgUZFQGTx
  magick-1.357720872715v6mRBqgoN2j_
  ...

Magick-1.* files generation seems to be triggered after the "Text" function (under SHFT-I)
has been used to enter character strings into an image, which is later saved.

Can anyone confirm ?

[__philippe]

Just exchanged email with FocusOn Image Viewer (FIV) developers, who assured me that those funny "magick-1"
files are merely a side-effect of using ImageMagick built-in library, and can be safely deleted after FIV ran.

I also submitted a few suggestions,...which they promptly agreed to implement in an upcoming FIV release !

1 - "Text-filter" search bar: option to make the Text search case-INsensitive
2 - "Add text to image" edit tab: option to save modified Font/Color/Size attributes
3 - "View details" files selection main panel:

• option to save modified columns width/positions
• add a new column to mark every file containing EXIF metadata with a CameraEXIF tag

  (shades of imagine... )

Wait and see...

[Midas]

Nice going, _philippe.

You could perhaps also make them aware of our little discussion here at TPFC...

Moreover, your exif button isn't linked with https...

[__philippe]

@Midas

I'll be damned...
Would you believe the very same thought fleetingly entered my foggy mind while writing the mail suggestions to FIV's developers ?...

...only to be rescued in the nick of one NYC microsec before hitting SEND,
...thus allowing this innocent self-reference to hopefully find its merry way to the appropriate recipient's attention ...

PS
Appreciate the tactfully subdued reminder, but it was really meant that way.
Just recycling some convenient static illustration from a former post of mine, plain cut&paste sloth, No Button Today(*), am afraid...
(*) Can be hummed to a possibly recognizable tune https://youtu.be/LesWfbkJJlQ?t=7

[Midas]

OK, I get it. It' just that when you do that I get this...

[__philippe]

@Midas

Colour me perplexed, but I, for one, don't really get it...

The inline "CameraEXIF" tiny tag image in my above post dated 16 Nov 2017 21:01 is not clickable,
it is merely displayed as a tiny icon, on my system, at least. (works the same under XP an Win7, BTW)

Do I understand correctly your screenshot warning message is produced as a result of clicking my post "CameraEXIF" tag ?

On the other hand...

Considering two code snippets extracted from:

1 - MY original post

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http://i42.tinypic.com/zilp51.png

2 - YOUR warning message

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https://s8.postimg.org/bunrnasj9/https.png

One can see that

• clicking URL#1 does correctly display the expected tiny image
• clicking URL#2 does indeed display your warning message

Now, the question is :
Where is that mystifying URL#2 of yours coming from

[Midas]

Do I understand correctly your screenshot warning message is produced as a result of clicking my post "CameraEXIF" tag?

Nope, just displaying it suffices...

The answer to this riddle is simple: tinypic.com doesn't support direct https linking, while postimage.org does.

[__philippe]

Right, but the riddle is only half answered, and the question remain:

Why would the innocuous URL http://i42.tinypic.com/zilp51.png built into my above post
magically turn (on your side) into evil https://s8.postimg.org/bunrnasj9/https.png , to our mutual annoyance ?

[webfork]

Right, but the riddle is only half answered, and the question remain:

Why would the innocuous URL http://i42.tinypic.com/zilp51.png built into my above post
magically turn (on your side) into evil https://s8.postimg.org/bunrnasj9/https.png , to our mutual annoyance ?

If you connect to a page with some resources encrypted and not others, some browsers will throw up an error. There are a long list of reasons for this that I realize don't seem to apply to viewing a page about a freeware program. As the tinypic link isn't encrypted, that's something that prompts the error.