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FastStone Image Viewer
FastStone Image Viewer | | Latest release | 3.7 / 2009-01-20; 332 days ago |
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| Preview release | 3.8 Beta / 2009-03-19; 274 days ago |
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| Written in | Borland Delphi |
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| Operating system | Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista/2003 Server |
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| Available in | English, multilingual available |
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| Type | Image viewer |
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| License | Proprietary, Free for non-commercial use only |
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| Website | www.faststone.org |
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FastStone Image Viewer is an image viewer and image organizer for Microsoft Windows, provided free of charge for personal and educational use (as of version 3.6[update]).
[edit] Features
Highlights:
- Relatively fast HQ image/thumbnail viewing (using Lanczos resampling algorithm)
- Support for dual head configuration
- Custom order arranging (via DnD) and automatic renumbering
- Color space management
- Magnifier lens
- Portable version to be used without installation, typically installed on USB key, including all user settings.
Other more common features include:
- Support for all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA), with a particular focus on popular digital camera RAW formats.
- Thumbnail cache and database
- Basic image editing tools ( resizing, cropping, color correction, red-eye removal
- Lossless JPEG rotations
- Side-by-side image comparison tool (up to 4 at a time)
- Fully customizable contact sheet Builder* Emailing
- Memory card image retriever
- Slideshow (including music and many transition effects)
- Emailing
[edit] Versions
The FastStone Image Viewer was first released in 2004 by FastStone Soft. Since then, a new stable version of the program has been released every few weeks to few months.
Since version 3.1, a multilingual version has been made available (supporting Simple and Traditional Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish).
This Windows program is provided in three forms: as a normal-install executable, a zip file of the same, or as a fully portable no-install zip file.
According to FastStone, version 2.7 and all previous releases have been found to be using improperly licensed images and icons, and as a result, FastStone requested that version 2.7 and older copies of FastStone Image Viewer cease to be used, with all licenses updated to version 2.8 for both free and commercial versions. This announcement was made on their web site the same date that version 2.8 was posted.
[edit] Issues
- Version 3.5 is incompatible with 64-bit operating systems (XP/Vista) on machines with more than 2 GB of RAM. This was resolved in version 3.6.
- Also, as of version 3.6, Unicode is not yet supported.
- When the program is launched, there may be a delay as the thumbnail view is managed, particularly the first time when the thumbnail cache database is built.
[edit] See also
- Comparison of image viewers
- XnView, a cross-platform free image viewer
[edit] References
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