Written by Tom Wickline

Tuesday, 23 October 2007 09:05

About IrfanView

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista.

It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.

IrfanView is trying to create new and/or interesting features in its own way, 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 7+ 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
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 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
IPTC editing
Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
Capturing
Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs
Lossless JPG rotation
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!
and much much more

Wine configuration

This is with a clean configuration directory and running in a 1024x768 virtual desktop.

$ winecfg

Once the .wine directory is built the configuration tool will start and you can set a virtul desktop in the graphics tab if you wish.

Installing IrfanView

You will need a native MFC42.dll in ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32 before the install work work.

Download WineTricks and install the MFC42.dll that it provides, or install the dll from a Windows XP box.

tom@tom:~$ wine iview410_setup.exe
fixme:advapi:CheckTokenMembership ((nil) 0x1298a8 0x33f428) stub!

IrfanView first run

tom@tom:~$ cd /home/tom/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/IrfanView
tom@tom:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/IrfanView$ wine i_view32.exe
fixme:commdlg:GetFileName95 Flags 0x00800000 not yet implemented
fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 88 (SPI_SETICONS)

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Ubuntu and Irfanview

Ken Laninga 2008-12-25 14:39:56

Irfanview has been one of my favorite tools for a long time. Now I am trying to move from Windows to
Linux Ubuntu and wonder if I should try this. I really don't have a clue how and wish there was
somebody who could guide me thru it with even more (!) detail than is shown on this excellent site.

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Hint on Irfanview install on an Ubuntu

gari 2009-02-10 09:45:03

Just a short message to inform those still having some problem to install Irfanview on Ubuntu
...

It is very important to pay attention to the mcf42.dll file to be added to the wine's
dll.
Indeed, in my case, the mfc42.dll downloaded from www.dll-files.com (or equivalent) was not
working and was leading to irfanview simply crashing while starting.
On the other hand, the
mfc42.dll file taken directly from my windows XP partition worked perfectly and allowed me to use
Irfanview on my Ubuntu 8.10!

I hope that this hint will be useful to some of you, as in my case, I
have lost quite some time on this issue !

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Tom Wickline 2009-02-10 15:49:45

Thanks gari,

I looked into this a little and the MFC42.dll that winetricks installs works as well..
maybe the dll from some of the online dll servers is from windows 98 e.g a older dll and that is the
cause of the trouble. I made a small edit to the post about installing MFC42.dll

Tom

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Tom Wickline 2009-02-12 01:04:53

I just posted a IrfanView 4.23 guide, here is the link to it.

IrfanView 4.23 Guide

Cheers,

Tom

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gosh

nage 2009-06-21 01:14:43

Gosh, that is so complicated. And for one simple programme! Damn it! Coundn't it be easier!

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Tom Wickline 2009-06-21 01:31:47

download winetricks and install mfc42.dll is complicated?

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"I can't hear" and "I don't want to hear" are diff

John 2009-06-21 16:22:21

To Linux users: why you don't like to hear people's opinion? if a user says that "is complicated
to do something", then it has to be so. There's no reason to lie.

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