FreeVimager

[I am Baas]

FreeVimager is am image viewer and editor. It can as well play avi video files and some type of audio files.

•View & Edit graphics file of type: jpeg, bmp, gif, tiff (multi-page), png, pcx and emf
•Save As Pdf command
•Jpeg lossless rotate and crop
•Works with all Windows versions from 95 up to Windows 7
•Multi-monitor support: switch form one monitor to another through context menu or TAB key
•The executable only version stores the settings to a INI file
•Preview Display with transparency (useful when working with two or more monitors)
•Unicode support: Open, Edit, Batch Process or Batch Rename your files named in russian, indian, chinese, japanese...
•EXIF is displayed and all data are kept when editing and saving images
•EXIF date / time adjustment in batch mode
•IPTC & XMP single file / batch editing support for jpeg and tiff files
•Batch Processing and CD / DVD Slideshow creation
•Print Preview with image positioning by dragging
•Size optimized Email sending of images and avi files
•Well known editing features like: rotate, crop, resize, brightness, contrast, sharpen, ...
•Live configurable Redeye removal tool
•Live Ansel Adams Zone System Histogram under Brightness, Contrast, ... (thanks Jordi for the suggestion)
•Twain Scan multiple pages to tiff and pdf (possibility to Email directly)
•Avi video player with snapshot functionality and draggable borders in full-screen mode
•Audio and CD player
•Zip extraction (context menu entry available)

More Screenshots Here.

Settings: .ini file in application folder. Creates empty folder in Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Contaware. This is now fixed in V2.35. Can someone help testing on other versions than XP?
Requirements: Win 95, NT4, 98, ME, 2k, XP, Vista and 7

Download @ http://www.contaware.com/component/opti ... lect/id,2/

[panting portable]

Thanks will check this out, seems really good, able to edit IPTC info and small and portable

[I am Baas]

FreeVimager is @ V2.07. Changes since last post:

2.0.7:

· In this release there are bug fixes and translation fixes
· Added touch screen gestures support for zoom in/out and for next/previous picture
· Fixed batch processing when input and output files have overlapping names in same directory (-> reorder in same directory now works as expected!)

2.0.5:

· In this release there are translation fixes, download it from here
· YUV video rendering support check
· New internal avi audio/video codecs (lossless, mjpeg, theora, vorbis and ADPCM)

Download @ http://www.contaware.com/component/opti ... lect/id,2/

[Emka]

Version 2.0.9 (24th of September 2010)

In this release there are some updates [...]

[I am Baas]

FreeVimager V2.1.0 available.

• In this release there are threading improvements.

Download @ http://www.contaware.com/component/opti ... lect/id,2/

[I am Baas]

FreeVimager V2.30:

•Possibility to play slideshow in random order
•Open in full-screen settings option

Download @ http://www.contaware.com/component/opti ... lect/id,2/

[I am Baas]

FreeVimager V2.3.5:

•In this stable release there are minor improvements
•Standalone version is now clean: it will not create a directory in the user's application data folder
•View image location in Google Map

Edited 1st post to reflect this fix.

Download @ http://www.contaware.com/component/opti ... lect/id,2/

[I am Baas]

V2.3.9 (March 12th 2011) released.

- Fixed playing problems for audio files with really long path
- Fixed Loading... keeps occasionally showing in file open dialog
- Fixed animated gif preview problems in file open dialog for
big files with many frames
- German translation

Download @ http://www.contaware.com/component/opti ... lect/id,2/

[I am Baas]

FreeVimager is @ V3.0.0 (May 9th 2011)

- Fixed W/H ratio info display for the crop tool with cm units
- Optimized first picture soft load
- Main window and File Info dialogs are restored to the
primary monitor if the last position is on a invalid monitor
(for example after the removal of a video projector)
- Enhanced translations
- Added some codecs

http://www.contaware.com/content/view/45/45/

[I am Baas]

FreeVimager is at V.3.7.0 (8th of November 2011):

- Rename command (F2 key)
- String and other fixes
- Dropped memory mapped BMP support
(today's PC have enough RAM)

Previous changes @ http://www.contaware.com/downloads/Hist ... imager.txt

Download @ http://www.contaware.com/component/opti ... lect/id,2/

[lautrepay]

Can someone help testing on other versions than XP?

Clean on Vista 64.

[I am Baas]

Can someone help testing on other versions than XP?

Clean on Vista 64.

Thanks for testing, lautrepay.

[Emka]

3.9.0 (December 20th 2011)

- Reduced dialogs and resources
- Fixed randomness for slideshow in random mode

[I am Baas]

FreeVimager V3.9.5 (27th of February 2012):

- Better and faster printing for low-resolution images
(1bpp, 4bpp, 8bpp and 16bpp)
- Updated toolbar min. width calculation

http://www.contaware.com/content/view/45/45/

Settings: Application folder
(creates FreeVimagerUnicode-x.x.x folder in AppData\Local\Temp\)

Tested: Portable

Added to TPFC @ http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=2248

Please vote.

[webfork]

I liked some of the things I read above so I went back and tested this. Some usage notes:

* Will open whole directories recursively (only images) to let you open the first image it finds and then advanced through all others. This combined with the slideshow or random slideshow can show a variety of selected images. RecursiView will do that in a thumbnail format, but it's not quite the same thing. This is maybe my favorite part of the program
* Does a very basic unzip, music player, screenshot mechanism ... added that to the entry and categories
* Scan function works fine, although it (on my system) just pulled up the existing HP tool to scan it in so not a big gain over my current setup

Wishlist -

* Ability to paste in directories, not just navigate to them
* Prefer a black background for images. This program tries to guess the background color (often incorrectly), which creates a flickering effect when cycling through images