Version history for IrfanView (Portable)

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Changes for v4.53 - v4.54

• Multiple Undo/Redo steps added (max. 20 steps, Properties-Editing)
• - Zoom magnifier added to fullscreen mode
• - Option to disable Zoom magnifier (Properties-Viewing)
• - Profiles option added to Print dialog
• - New option in Properties-Fullscreen: Set horizontal and/or vertical centering
• - New option in Print dialog: Set horizontal and/or vertical centering
• - Option to set selection border thickness (Properties-Editing)
• - Option to enable/disable PlugIns (Help-Installed PlugIns)
• - Extended sidecar files option: Copy/Move possible (Properties-File Handling)
• - New Canvas dialog option/method: Set aspect ratio
• - New option in Watch/Hot Folder dialog: Watch subfolders
• - New Lossless JPG Dialog option: Add (or Replace) ICC color profile
• - New Thumbnails option: Keep focus in folder tree (after folder change/click)
• - Option to show Color Corrections dialog in dark mode
• - Fix in Metadata PlugIn (crash with bad EXIF tag in CR2 files; KVE-2019-1184)
• - BMP loading bug fixed (thanks to Joshua Faust, CVE-2019-16887)
• - JP2 PlugIn loading bug fixed (thanks to Linhlhq)
• - ANI PlugIn loading bug fixed (thanks to Linhlhq, CVE-2019-17252)
• - RAS PlugIn loading bug fixed (thanks to Linhlhq, CVE-2019-17251)
• - EXR PlugIn loading bug fixed (thanks to Linhlhq, CVE-2019-17255)
• - DPX PlugIn loading bug fixed (thanks to Linhlhq, CVE-2019-17256)
• - WSQ PlugIn loading bug fixed (thanks to Linhlhq, CVE-2019-17250)
• - JLS PlugIn loading bug fixed (thanks to Linhlhq, CVE-2019-17253)

Changes for v4.52 - v4.53

• New effect in Image->Effects menu: Insert Speech Bubbles
• Examples/Screenshot: speech_bubbles.jpg
• New effect in Image menu: Add Shadow, Shape, Rounded corners, Snowflake etc.
• New effect in Image menu: Add Hexagon (or tiles), Star, Spikes, Heart etc.
• Show mouse zoom magnifier: CTRL+SHIFT + Mouse-move in the image
• (mouse wheel zooms within magnifier area, click inside closes it)
• New border effect in "Add Frame" dialog: Broken Edge
• New effect added: Radial Brighten (Effects browser dialog)
• New option in Capture dialog: Draw red circle around cursor
• New option in Advanced batch dialog: Set maximal dimensions for resize
• Profiles option added to Contact Sheet dialog
• Option to read 1 BPP images in RAW dialog
• Command line: /filepattern can be combined with /slideshow
• TIF/PCX/PSD loading bugs fixed (thanks to Apriorit)
• Some PlugIns are changed/updated, please install the newest versions:

Changes for v4.51 - v4.52

• Improved Paint PlugIn stability
• Support for DPX and CIN formats (DPX PlugIn, thanks to Patrick A. Palmer)
• Support for FLIF format (Free Lossless Image Format, PlugIn)
• Support for HEIF format (with installed HEVC extensions/codec, see Win10)
• New option in Advanced batch dialog: Set minimal dimensions for resize
• Option to save settings in Canvas dialog
• Insert Text dialog: CTRL + click in image adds the text permanently
• Command line: /filepattern option: accepts multiple extensions ("*.jpg;*.png")
• Improved support for high DPI displays
• Improved JPG2000 format loading
• Several PlugIns are changed/updated, please install the newest versions:

Changes for v4.44 - v4.50

• IrfanView and many PlugIns ported to Unicode!
• The INI file will be converted to Unicode if you call the "Properties" dialog
• IrfanView will NOT run on Win9x anymore
• Support for iPhone PNG files (Formats PlugIn, thanks to Jongware)
• Move selection with: CTRL or SHIFT + right mouse button (Y or X axis only)
• New option in Extract Pages/Frames dialog: Set page/frame range
• Some fixes in the Print dialog
• New text pattern: $m = show number of megapixels
• New Thumbnails sort menu: Sort by Megapixels
• Adjust print preview image to color/bw printer settings
• Wallpaper save format changed to PNG (Win8 and later)
• New zooming method: Mouse wheel alone, if "Browsing->View other files" disabled
• New command line option: /hotfolder="folder"
• => start Hotfolder option with a specific folder
• ANI format moved to FORMATS PlugIn
• JP2 PlugIn loading bug fixed (Talos Advisory TALOS-2017-0310)
• FPX/RLE/DJVU/ANI/SVG PlugIn loading bugs fixed (thanks to Lin Wang)
• Tools PlugIn EXE-loading problem fixed (thanks to Cody Sixteen and Lin Wang)
• Several PlugIns fixed or ported to unicode, please install the newest versions:

Changes for v4.42 - v4.44

• Metadata PlugIn ported to Unicode (EXIF/IPTC/Comment data in JPG files)
• Batch scan dialog: Scan to multipage file works also with PDF output
• New Edit menu options: Remove or Insert strip (based on selection)
• New Blur filter: Gaussian Blur (thanks to Ivan Kuckir)
• New Blur filter: Fast Gaussian Blur (thanks to Mario Klingemann)
• New Properties->Fullscreen option: Show blurred image sides
• Option to show mouse coordinates (Properties->Viewing)
• New options in Histogram dialog: modeless dialog, selections, curves
• New effect added: Vertical Shift (Effects browser dialog)
• New Thumbnails menu: Show/hide filenames text for thumbnails
• New Image->Effects PlugIn: Film Simulation (thanks to Jan Ingwer Baer)
• (check the PlugIns page for CLUT files download)
• New wallpaper option: Fill (Hotkey: CTRL + SHIFT + F)
• New Rename dialog option: Rename also sidecar files
• New Print dialog option: Save settings (without printing)
• Command line option "/append" works also with PDF output
• A BMP loading bug fixed (thanks to Ren Yi)
• The hotkey "D" (clear screen) works also in Fullscreen/Slideshow mode
• Loading crashes fixed in JP2 PlugIn (JPG-2000 format)
• The Luratech formats (JP2/JPM) are now Freeware (Saving and Batch mode)
• Command line: /convert accepts wildcard also for a single filename, like:
• i_view32.exe c:\testimg.bmp /convert=c:\tifs\*.tif => save as "testimg.tif"
• Command line: /capture=7 can contain the input rectangle, like:
• i_view32.exe /capture=7=(0,0,800,600)

Changes for v4.41 - v4.42

• New File menu: Save Selection as (Hotkey: CTRL + SHIFT + B)
• New option in Capture dialog: Show timer countdown
• New option in Export Tiles dialog: Extract all pages from multipage files
• New option in Fine Rotation dialog: Select "best" old image
• New option in Print dialog: No image overflow on page
• New HTML-Export dialog option: Copy extra files to destination folder
• (prepare a "copy_files.txt" file with filenames)
• Some PCX/BMP/PPM loading bugs fixed (thanks to Moshe Kaplan)
• Improved FITS format loading
• New text pattern: $R = image aspect ratio (width/height)
• New hotkey: CTRL + Click into selection = clear selection
• Some minor fixes (Thumbnails/folder scan)
• Some workarounds for Windows-10 bugs/issues (Installer signature, Associations)
• Several PlugIns are changed/updated, please install the newest versions

Changes for v4.40 - v4.41

• 64-bit version: Use 32-bit TWAIN drivers if 64-bit drivers not installed
• New dialog/GUI on Windows tablets ("2 in 1", Thanks to Arun Anbu from Intel)
• New hotkey: SHIFT + Tab: Start/End Tablet mode dialog
• New hotkey: CTRL + Insert: Edit->Copy
• New Slideshow hotkey: Q = Pause/Resume a timer slideshow
• New option for /info command line: write CSV file: /info=infofile.csv
• Added PlugIns-Installer options for: /silent and /folder (Check FAQs page)
• "Amazon 1Button App" offer removed
• Some fixes (Auto color correction, PNG compression, UNC-Paths in 64-bit)

Changes for v4.38 - v4.40

• The 64-bit version of IrfanView is available
• The 64-bit version is faster for very large images (25+ Megapixels)
• Option to support IrfanView by installing "Amazon 1Button App" (OPTIONAL !)
• Support for animated PNG files (APNG)
• EXIF date (taken) sort menu added to main window sort menu
• New Sort dialog option: Sort by EXIF date (date taken)
• New toolbar item: Zoom box with common values (Properties->Toolbar)
• (You can also write a new zoom value and press Enter)
• New PDF PlugIn (enable in Properties->PlugIns->PDF)
• New in Thumbnails window: Export image tiles for selected files (batch mode)
• Load cursors and bitmaps from EXE/DLL files (Thanks to Jason Hood)
• Option to set a custom font for TXT loading (Properties->Browsing/Editing)
• Option to use left mouse button for fullscreen scrolling (for touch screens)
• The 2 GB limit for EXE/SCR-Slideshow files changed (now: 4 GB, Windows EXE limit)
• New Fine Rotation method/option added (faster for very large images)
• New option for the Red-Eye-Correction effect (dialog): Set gray intensity
• Some fixes in the Paint PlugIn
• New hotkey: CTRL + SHIFT and '+' or '-' to change GIF/ANI/PNG animation speed
• New hotkey: CTRL + SHIFT + mouse click: Create selection based on clipboard image
• New button in Batch processing dialog: Pause/Resume
• New button in Advanced batch dialog: Get current selection for cropping
• You can Drag&Drop (or Send To) multiple files to IrfanView shorcut or window
• PlugIns "Metadata" and "JPG-Transform" included in the IrfanView installer
• New command line option: /file=filename(s)
• => set the input filename(s) (at the end of the command chain)
• New command line option: /display=(x,y,w,h,zoom,scrollX,scrollY)
• => set position, size, zoom and scroll position of the window and image
• Command line: wildcards support for /extract (see "i_options.txt")
• Command line: /panorama, /multitif and /multipdf can use "filelist=txtfile"
• (see "i_options.txt" for examples)
• Several PlugIns are changed/updated, please install the newest versions

Changes for v4.35 - v4.36

• New Lossless JPG Dialog option: Rebuild EXIF-Thumbnail
• Update of EXIF-Thumbnail on JPG-Lossless-Crop
• Option to Edit EXIF date/time (Options menu or Thumbnails window for batch mode)
• Improved color accuracy in "Decrease color depth" function
• Added "Best quality" option in "Decrease color depth" dialog (Thanks to Kornel Lesinski!)
• New (Freeware) PlugIn for DWG format - thanks to BabaCAD-Software guys!
• New feature: Replace Color (Image menu and Advanced Batch dialog)
• New feature: Create tiled image (Image menu)
• New effects PlugIn: Filter Sandbox (Image->Effects menu, JewelScript, thanks to Stefan Kuhn!)
• Option to invert single color channels only (Image menu)
• New Edit menu option: Show Grid (see also Properties->Editing for cell size)
• New Slideshow Burning PlugIn for WinXP SP3 or later (Thanks to Eric Haddan!)
• New display options added: Fit small image side to window/desktop
• Profiles option added to Batch Rename dialog
• New Advanced Batch dialog option: Set new image size in MegaPixels
• New options for Fine Rotation effect: Keep old image size and background
• New feature in Color Corrections dialog: Change White Balance
• New effect in "Image->Add border/frame" dialog: Inside fading frame
• New Thumbnails menu: Extract pages from selected multipage files
• New Add Text dialog effect: Filled outline text (Thanks to Wong Shao Voon)
• Negative and Grayscale menus can work on selections
• Improved selection handling with large zooms
• Updated Icons-Plugin (bigger/nicer icons, thanks to Florian Kilzer)
• New hotkeys: CTRL + SHIFT + left/right arrow: Fine rotation, 0.10 deg
• New hotkeys: CTRL + SHIFT + up/down arrow: Fine rotation, 0.05 deg
• Batch-Scan dialog: some placeholders can be used for the filename (help file)
• New text placeholders to add $ and | characters (see help file)
• New (admin) INI file option: Set save formats in Save-As dialog (see FAQs)
• New hotkey for slideshow mode: SHIFT + Z = show all or portrait/landscape images
• Hotkey: G = stop or resume GIF/ANI animation (browse frames/pages if stopped)
• DCX/ANI loading bug fixed (reported by FuzzMyApp, thanks!)
• FPX bug fixed (reported by Secunia/Krystian Kloskowski, thanks!)
• Added reading support for 32-bit (96 BPP) TIF images
• New command line option: /multipdf (same syntax as /multitif)
• Several PlugIns are changed/updated, please install the newest versions

Changes for v4.30 - v4.32

• Improved Resampling (Speed; Lanczos artefacts: thanks to Marcel Lancelle)
• New feature: Add watermark image (Edit menu and Advanced batch dialog)
• Improved zooming: CTRL + wheel (keep mouse coordinates) and centered zoom
• Support for WebP format (Weppy format, PlugIn, reading + saving)
• Support for PDN format (Paint.NET format, PlugIn, thanks to ComSquare AG)
• Support for XCF format (GIMP format, PlugIn, thanks to ComSquare AG)

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