Pictoscope is a free graphic viewer.

Pictoscope can display images in four different forms:

· Normal view: the image is contained in a normal window, with borders and clip controls. It is displayed in the original format if it fits in the screen, otherwise it is automatically reduced to the maximum size fitting in the screen. You can then optionally crop or resize the image by dragging the windows borders or the image itself, hide the borders and even set the image in a slow and random motion. The cropped or resized image can be saved in JPEG format with selectable quality level, with original resolution or with the resolution seen on the screen.

· Full screen view: the image is shown in the middle of the screen, on a black background that fills the rest of screen, hiding anything else. You can pass from normal view to full screen view and vice versa by double clicking the image

· Slide show with an optional, barely noticeable status bar showing various indicators, including the number of images unseen compared with the total number of pictures. You can crop and/or resize pictures on-the-fly, using the built-in editing functionality or calling a predefined external editor without breaking the slide show sequence. The modified image will automatically replace the current one in the slide show. You can suspend a slide show, quit the program and resume the show another time exactly from the point of suspension (this sort of hibernation is especially useful when viewing shows with hundreds of pictures). Slide show scripts can be created automatically with a key stroke from the normal view of any picture and include all pictures in the same folder and, optionally, also those contained in all subfolders.

· Thumbnails

Above functions can be combined with a powerful search capability based on character strings to be found in names of image files contained in a directory or directory tree. Up to three search criteria can be entered, with AND/OR operator. Once obtained the search results, the user can run a slide show or create thumbnail with all the images found, no matter in which directory they are.

NOTE: Free for personal, non-commercial use ONLY.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Main window could become invisible.
· Program now works also with vertical start bar.
· Clear paths of previous session on startup.
· Overflow error when working with desktopo extended to 2nd monitor.
· Correction of picture zoom-in in normal view with borders.
· Correction of picture frame size in same coses of normal view with borders.
· Temporary files will be created in Windows' temporary folder.
· Auto size of non-fullscreen window takes into account variable size of start bar.
· In crop mode, use of left, right, up, dn keys has been inverted.
· In crop mode and full screen mode, you can now use page up/dn and home/end keys to move picture faster.
· Avoid error file not found after saving as jpeg to a different folder.
· Number of unseen pictures unduly updated in sequential mode.
· Random/sequential mode, comments hidden mode, auto/manual mode, interval saved in slide show file.
· In normal window (non full screen, framed), improved handling of 'original resolution' mode.
· Improved handling of change from random to sequential mode (do not go immediately to slide #1).
· Association of files jpg, gif or bmp with Pictoscope prompted at startup and inserted in start window context menu.
· In save image, dialog title shows the function you have requested.
· In slide show, avoid loading two pictures at once when pressing 'R' (previous correction not sufficient).
· In slide show, avoid loading two pictures at once when pressing 'R'.
· Function to rename files of a folder to sequence numbers.
· Overflow error when setting a picture in motion.
· Pictoscope is now free of charge.