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Irfanview is a freeware (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows.

IrfanView seeks to create unique, new and interesting features, unlike some other graphic viewers, whose whole "creativity" is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView! (for example: XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 10+ years).

IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support. One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIF support. The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple ICO support.

Some IrfanView features:

Many supported file formats (click here the list of formats)
Multi language support
Thumbnail/preview option
Paint option - to draw lines, circles, arrows, straighten image etc.
Toolbar skins option
Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc.
Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
Fast directory view (moving through directory)
Batch conversion (with advanced image processing)
Multipage TIF editing
File search
Email option
Multimedia player
Print option
Support for embedded color profiles in JPG/TIF
Change color depth
Scan (batch scan) support
Cut/crop
Add overlay text/image (watermark)
IPTC editing
Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
Screen Capturing
Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs
Lossless JPG rotation
Shell Extension PlugIn
Unicode support
Many hotkeys
Many command line options
Many PlugIns
Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages like "I Agree" or "Evaluation expired"
No registry changes without user action/permission!
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Setting transparent images background in IrfanView

I have some PNG images which consist of a black shape and a transparent background. Unfortunately, IrfanView shows transparent background as black color, so I see just black on black. I've found in Irfan settings that I can change the window's…
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Batch convert from XCF version 11

I have a folder of images saved in .xcf format, and I would like to batch convert them to a more convenient format. I've tried a few approaches that haven't worked: I used to do this using IrfanView, but that no longer works because it refuses to…
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How to replicate IrfanView's colordepth reduction using ImageMagick?

I usually use IrfanView v4.62 to decrease colour depth for PNG images to 4 bits per pixel. But I now need to use ImageMagick v7 because I need to cron a batch job on Linux (CentOS 7.9). IrfanView doesn't run on Linux (except on Wine, which is not…
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Batch convert different image formats to multipage pdf Irfanview

I am new to batch scripting. I am trying to convert different image files into a multipage pdf file using Irfanview. The batch file needs to recurse through the subfolders and merge all of the image and pdf files into a multipage pdf file. The…
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python subprocess call to irfanview fails

I'm attempting to get Irfanview to extract some multipage images for me. As you can't batch do that operation within Irfanview I'm trying to use Pythons subprocess.call() to do the commandline work for me. I've got the command in powershell working…
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Batch conversion PNG w/ alpha-channel in IrfanView

I have to batch convert a couple of PNG logos, each with transparent background. I used to do it with IrfanView, but now I just can't get it to work properly. I tried different options, but every one breaks transparency in some or another way. So,…
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Bulk Combine TIFFs Based on Common File Name Using Irfanview

I have a folder containing 2000 or so single page TIFFs. The TIFFs have a variable number of common file names that indicate how the files should be combined. The common file names are different lengths. Using Windows 7, standard productivity…
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IrfanView automation

I'm trying to do 2 tasks with IrfranView. First, I need to grab 2 tiff images and merge them into a single tif. I'm using the command /multitif=(fileName, 1st_image, 2nd_image), but always give me an error: Error: Can't load 1st_image. After click…
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Batch create images from text file with Irfanview?

I have a file of several thousand text strings with an associated ID number. I want to take each distinct text string and make it a JPG image of the text, and have the file named with the associated ID number. All of the strings are a maximum of 75…
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Why does IrfanView say my jpg file is a png file?

My utility is supposed to resize either .jpg or .png files. It seems to work fine in one location (at work, where I don't have IrfanView installed). But at home, when I open a *.jpg and then save it (resized), I see: However, the image still…
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IrfanView: Can I Batch Convert Images and Set File Size with Command Line?

I find using the InfanView 64.exe program/interface to batch convert multiple files tedious because it never remembers the last folder I opened/converted from. Is there a way to batch convert a whole folder of .png files to .jpg with the file size…
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Automated Script to Rename and Resize jpg Images

I have a bit of a difficult problem to solve. I have a folder that contains a large amount of image files, and new image files are added daily (all JPG) that are named in a way that ensures there are no duplicates. The file names never change. I…
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Converting georeferenced .png files to .ecw using IrfanView

Is there anyway I can preserve image georeferencing information after processing or converting the image via IrfanView? I have a couple of .png files with spatial reference and I'm trying to save them as ecw images. Unfortunately this process…
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Reducing image size before pasting into Word

I have images taken with my phone. If I paste them into Word, they're huge! If I resize them with Irfanview before pasting into Word, the quality is poor. If I resize the image in Word by dragging its corners, it's fine. I'm obviously missing…
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Display image command line in Windows 10 using IrfanView

I'm using windows 10, connected to a server using bash. This server runs unix and it have eog and gwenview to display images. I can't use this programs in windows, so I was looking for one that does the same in windows. I tried IrfanView but I don't…
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