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Questions tagged [irfanview]

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How to zoom-in without having the image blurred in Irfanview

How can I zoom-in without having the image blurred in Irfanview? I need it for GUI development to see large pixels.
Mike L.
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Make IrfanView ignore text files or other file types?

I just installed IrfanView and while viewing images, I notice IrfanView iterates text files as well as image files. How do I make it NOT include text files (or other kinds of files) in its iteration?
user3109
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Manually Add Program to Open With in Windows 10

I have a standalone version of IrfanView (x64) and want it to appear in the Open With menu for all image files. I do not want it to be the default program however. For some reason no matter what I do, it doesn't want to enter this list. It doesn't…
Ynhockey
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Printing large images as multiple A4 sheets using IrfanView?

I have a massive image about 980px wide and 3000+px high. I want to print this on multiple A4 sheets of paper, how can I do this?
meiryo
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IrfanView replaced my Settings' and Your Phone's icon

I have nearly brand new Windows 10 1903. A day after installing it from scratch, I have installed Irfan View as well. Another day later I have realised that it has (?) replaced my Settings' icon: Things that I tried so far: Reset the icon cache…
trejder
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How to mark files in irfanview?

I need to sort photos. Right now I use Irfanview tool to look through images. I use Del key to move (delete) images into Recycle Bin. I use Del key on images I like, since there are many less than I actually took. I then restore them out of…
dennismv
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Automatic Resizing in Irfanview

Is there a setting to enable Irfanview to open a large imaze to fit your desktop? It's annoying browsing through an SD card and having to manually resize them so you can see what the photo looks like.
RHPT
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Preserving existing alpha channels using irfanview PNG converter

I have tried a lot of different tools and found that Irfanview gives promising results when converting to PNG's under the highest compression settings. One issue I've encountered is when my original image has an alpha channel set. Irfanview's PNG…
MxLDevs
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Erratic window behavior while cycling through images in Irfanview?

As I am using the left/right arrow keys to cycle through a folder full of images with varying dimensions, the window is constantly resizing itself. This is annoying because, with smaller images, the resizing of the window actually hides some of the…
oscilatingcretin
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unicode in irfanview

I tried opening a picture and it mentions activating unicode. UNICODE PlugIn in Properties->Languages I only see english and german. I already installed the plugin pack (via exe). I still cant open unicode, how do i set it up?
user3109
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How can I hide the file name in full screen mode?

I am using IrfanView 4.33 and I cannot work out how to hide the file name in full screen mode. I want to display a photo but when I do I always see the file name in a bright green font! I’ve looked through the Options and View menus and Googled but…
Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE
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Batch Image auto crop, apply fixed width, and maintain aspect ratio

I'm finding it hard to find a solution to what I'm trying to do. Simply put, the usage of these images is for an online store. The IrfanView batch processing using the autio crop borders basically sorts out the cropping. I need to cut out the…
StuyvesantBlue
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Converting a series of bitmap images to grey scale

I have a series of bmp image files containing RGB encoded data. I need to convert all of these images in to their greyscale equivalents. I have considered two approaches for this, both turned out to be insufficient. 1) I tried using IrfanView and…
The Vivandiere
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Batch processing multi-TIFF in Irfan view

I have to convert DPI of more than 5k Tiff images on a monthly basis from 200x200 to 100x100. I can do that in Irfan view using a .bat file that i have created.. the following is the .BAT file code @"c:\program files\irfanview\i_view32.exe" …
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IrfanView startup switches - Toggle caption, toolbar, status, etc

I need to start IrfanView and automatically toggle-off the caption, menu, statusbar and toolbar. From within the app, you can press AltShiftC (then M, S, T) to toggle these features manually. Is there a way to do this on startup, using start-up…
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