What's new in FreeVimager 9.9.23
Dec 11, 2023
- Possibility to change the tabs order by dragging them
- Fixed "Invalid crop request" error happening for some odd sized jpegs
- Horizontal scroll support for Logitech MX Master, Logitech MX Anywhere, Logitech G502 Lightspeed, ...
New in FreeVimager 9.9.22 (May 16, 2022)
- Improved file header safety checks
- Fixed the .png saving which sometimes could fail
- Correctly handle top-down .bmp files
- For zoomed-in images the crop rectangle starts within the view
- Lossless crop is now the default for unmodified jpeg files
- In Windows 11 our "Global Settings" - "Associate" button opens now the
- "Default apps" page where file extensions can be associated to us
New in FreeVimager 9.9.21 (Mar 22, 2022)
- More robust ICC profiles parser to avoid crashes with some buggy files
- Updated icclib to 2.16
- Fixed ICC profile display bug introduced with 5.0.5
New in FreeVimager 9.9.20 (Dec 7, 2021)
- Better clipboard support for images with transparency
- Updated the avir library to version 3.0
New in FreeVimager 9.9.19 (Aug 26, 2021)
- Added a clear recent file list command
- Added magnetic/snapping borders to the picture windows
- Dropped Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 support
New in FreeVimager 9.9.18 (Jun 9, 2021)
- Updated the avir library to version 2.9
- Solved an issues introduced in 9.9.7 which displayed the color buttons and the color picker pop-up with an old classic style
- Removed the crop rectangular selection possibility because it was often activated by error when clicking outside the crop handles
New in FreeVimager 9.9.17 (Apr 19, 2021)
- We have got a code signing certificate
New in FreeVimager 9.9.16 (Apr 1, 2021)
- Higher priority for CopyTrans .heic decoder because the Microsoft Heif may not be able to open the file if HEVC Video Extensions is missing
- Enabled Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) with /DYNAMICBASE
New in FreeVimager 9.9.15 (Feb 15, 2021)
- In print preview we can now scale the image with the mouse wheel
- High DPI aware crop tool
New in FreeVimager 9.9.14 (Jan 4, 2021)
- No changes (be in sync with ContaCam version)
New in FreeVimager 9.9.13 (Jan 4, 2021)
- Shortcut files (.lnk files) are now correctly opened
- Possibility to paste an image copied in Windows File Explorer
- Added F1 key for "Online Help"
New in FreeVimager 9.9.12 (Nov 17, 2020)
- Trim leading/trailing spaces for entered donation email address
New in FreeVimager 9.9.11 (Oct 12, 2020)
- Added viewing support for .heic, .webp, .avif and .jxr files
- Correctly displaying exif ISO equivalent values smaller than 50
- Updated the avir library to version 2.6
New in FreeVimager 9.9.10 (Aug 3, 2020)
- Always open images with zoom level Fit or Fit Big
- File formats like .png and .gif can store a background color which is used to render the images. When watching pictures one after the other a fixed background color may be preferred. That's now possible with the "Lock Background Color" option found in View menu
- More robust exif metadata reader, for some corrupted jpeg files the program could crash
- Solved a Color Picker display bug (thanks to Veksha for helping)
- Updated the avir library to version 2.5
New in FreeVimager 9.9.9 (May 2, 2020)
- The full path shown in titlebar is shortened to fit the system given maximum titlebar text size of 159 characters
- Fluid and constant speed when quickly forwarding several images
- Zoom ComboBox working now correctly when a slideshow plays
- Background color toolbar button high DPI and high contrast aware
- Fixed scrolling for big images and big zoom factors
New in FreeVimager 9.9.8 (Feb 20, 2020)
- Showing the full path in titlebar
- File/directory dialogs open now the folder of the active image
- Fixed statusbar for high dpi devices
New in FreeVimager 9.9.7 (Jan 30, 2020)
- Supporting high DPI aware NSIS 3 (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)
New in FreeVimager 9.9.5 (Dec 19, 2019)
- Bottom toolbar color popup must not cover its own button
New in FreeVimager 9.9.3 (Nov 23, 2019)
- Increased a security check limit which prevented loading big .png images
New in FreeVimager 9.9.0 (Oct 9, 2019)
- Better support for high contrast themes
- Support for .jfif graphics files
- Updated installer with an improved closing logic for multiple running instances of FreeVimager
- Fixed a bug which in some circumstances blocked the display of a good image placed near a corrupted one
- Updated the avir library to version 2.4
New in FreeVimager 9.7.0 (Jun 20, 2019)
- Improved languages support
New in FreeVimager 9.5.0 (Apr 30, 2019)
New in FreeVimager 9.0.9 (Feb 18, 2019)
- New temperature, humidity, pressure and water depth exif tags
- Updated the AVIR library to version 2.2
New in FreeVimager 9.0.7 (Dec 27, 2018)
- - Updated the AVIR library to version 2.1
- - Fixed dialog positioning when the secondary monitor is to the
- left of the primary monitor
New in FreeVimager 9.0.5 (Nov 8, 2018)
- Building the application with LARGEADDRESSAWARE set to have up to
- the double of address space
New in FreeVimager 9.0.1 (Sep 20, 2018)
New in FreeVimager 9.0.0 (Sep 10, 2018)
- FreeVimager is now DONATIONWARE
- Document tabs have got a close button
- User interface clean up
- Using better random generators
- Libpng updated to 1.2.59
New in FreeVimager 7.7.0 (Feb 19, 2018)
- Bigger close buttons for dialogs (handy for tablets)
- Replaced menu circles with check marks
New in FreeVimager 7.5.0 (Oct 18, 2017)
- Better brightness, contrast, saturation and hue adjustment (the Ansel Adams Zone System Histogram has been removed because of incompatibility)
- Tabbed document interface (TDI)
- Dropped Windows XP and Windows 2003 support (ReactOS support has also been dropped because it only implements the Windows 2003 API)
New in FreeVimager 7.0.0 (May 14, 2017)
New in FreeVimager 5.5.0 (Feb 19, 2017)
- libpng updated to 1.2.57
- Fixed memory leak of CRT threads under Windows XP
New in FreeVimager 5.3.0 (Nov 19, 2016)
- Using the AVIR image resizing algorithm
New in FreeVimager 5.1.0 (Sep 21, 2016)
- Made the application High DPI Aware (displays well on 4K monitors)
- File association is now Windows 10 compliant: the user must confirm the associations in an OS dialog opened from the FreeVimager Global Settings dialog
- Compiling with Visual Studio 2015 (FreeVimager runs on Windows XP SP3 / Windows Server 2003 SP2 or higher)
New in FreeVimager 5.0.9 (Jun 27, 2016)
- Enhanced the Sharpen dialog by using the unsharp mask method
New in FreeVimager 5.0.7 (May 9, 2016)
- Bigger toolbar buttons
- Fixed the recognition of the email client used to send pictures
- Using UTF-8 encoding for JPEG/JFIF COM comment sections
- Using UTF-8 encoding for GIF comments
New in FreeVimager 5.0.5 (Jan 8, 2016)
- When sorting in Batch Processing dialog if the Date Taken doesn't exist use the oldest between Date Created and Date Modified
- Added crash dump support and verbose diagnostic logging
- libpng updated to 1.2.56
New in FreeVimager 5.0.3 (Nov 18, 2015)
- Jpeg loading is more fault tolerant: ignore missing SOI marker
- Show/hide commands for Statusbar and Toolbars
- Removed fullscreen only slideshow mode as CD/DVD slideshows are from the old days
- Removed audio file opening support as we are a graphics viewer and not an audio player
New in FreeVimager 5.0.1 (Oct 4, 2015)
- Small enhancements and fixes
- Full Vietnamese language support
New in FreeVimager 5.0.0 (May 20, 2015)
- Silently open all supported image types with wrong file extension and when changes are saved the file content is converted to match the file extension
- Fixed the "Server Busy" error message popping-up while scanning
- libpng updated to 1.2.52
- Removed avi player as there are many modern players out there
- Removed outdated audio CD player (cda file extension)
- Removed zip file opening support as we are a graphics viewer and not an archiver
New in FreeVimager 4.9.9 (Nov 4, 2014)
- Dropped DirectX (IDirectDraw7) drawing support because it is obsolete and poses stability and in some cases even memory leaks problems on Windows 8/8.1
- Avi player has now an AAC codec
- Licensed under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3
New in FreeVimager 4.9.7 (Aug 26, 2014)
- Faster transition to full-sized jpeg image
- High Quality Stretch enabled by default
- libpng updated to 1.2.51
- icclib updated to 2.14
- Simplified video encoding settings by removing the bitrate parameter and dropped vorbis, flac and mp2 audio encoding support
- In installation folder there is a new MasterConfig.ini file which determines the configuration files location, the temporary folder location and whether to use the registry or an ini file
New in FreeVimager 4.9.5 (Mar 25, 2014)
- Touch screen gesture support for print preview (pan & zoom)
- In print preview the images are now correctly closed with
- File - Close or when pressing the view's [X] button
- Slideshow settings are now stored in a simple .ini file instead of the more complicated .xml file
- In Batch Processing dialog update thumbs when sorting columns
New in FreeVimager 4.9.0 (Nov 21, 2013)
- Updated touch screen gestures support for Windows 8 and added next/previous tiff page/gif frame gestures (swipe up or down)
- FreeVimager opens now all numeric extensions as tiff files because some fax/scan devices/programs highlight the pages count in the extension (.001, .002, .003, ...)
- First version especially optimized for Windows XP and higher
- Dropped support for theora encoding because many modern players are not able to play avi files encoded in such a way
New in FreeVimager 4.7.0 (May 31, 2013)
- The crop tool permits now precise selections through the arrow keys (use the tab key to switch crop handle)
New in FreeVimager 4.5.0 (May 15, 2013)
- The generated pdfs are now smaller and compatible with all current viewers (solved wrong color display issue of Nitro Pdf Reader and some mobile pdf viewers)
- Files sorting an viewing is now done like in Windows Explorer (1.jpg, 2.jpg .. 10.jpg, 11.jpg, 12.jpg)
New in FreeVimager 4.3.0 (Feb 12, 2013)
- New image Reload (from disk) command
- Changed command accelerators to be more translation friendly
- Removed Burning with Nero support (the Microsoft Windows burning API works well since Windows XP)
- Removed OCR txt batch output support because it needed the Microsoft Office MODI component
New in FreeVimager 4.1.0 (Dec 5, 2012)
- Fixed wrong parsing of dpi value for some type of jpeg files
New in FreeVimager 4.0.9 (Nov 12, 2012)
- Save As Pdf stores now all high resolution bit depths with jpeg compression (8bpp grayscale, 16bpp, 24bpp and higher -> jpeg)
- Removed single pages save when tiff multi-page scanning because since version 4.0.5 there is the lossless extract all pages command if somebody wants the single tiff pages
New in FreeVimager 4.0.7 (Nov 3, 2012)
- New Scan and Email toolbar button
- New Screenshot toolbar button
- Small fixes
New in FreeVimager 4.0.5 (Aug 28, 2012)
- Possibility to extract all pages from a multi-page tiff file
New in FreeVimager 4.0.3 (Aug 10, 2012)
- More productive working because less dialogs are popping-up when saving files and scanning to PDF (the save as dialogs have now a jpeg quality slider)
- ESC key always exits the program if set so in Global Settings
- Icons update
- Email button pops-up the open file dialog if no documents open fixed emailing of two or more files with the same name
- 2pass log file is not overwritten if encoding at the same
- time two or more videos with the same destination file name
- obviously to different directories)
- Fixed uniqueness of temporary subdirectories
New in FreeVimager 4.0.1 (Jul 10, 2012)
- Fixed uniqueness of temporary files
New in FreeVimager 4.0.0 (Jun 18, 2012)
- If file to open through command line (double-clicking on it) is empty or not existing paste the clipboard into it; if nothing in clipboard make it a 1x1 image
- Libpng updated to 1.2.49
New in FreeVimager 3.9.9 (May 2, 2012)
- Beside the multi-page file the Scan to Tiff command saves now also the single pages in separate files
- New toolbar button for Scan to Tiff and for Email
- When Scan to Tiff or Scan to Pdf dialogs are closed the program asks whether more pages are to be scanned (removed the superfluous Lock Scan Dialog option)
- Convert 32 bpp images to 24 bpp when sending them to the printer; this because the alpha component is interpreted by some printers even if it's not an image with alpha channel
New in FreeVimager 3.9.7 (Mar 27, 2012)
- The zoom selection box is now working as expected when canceling the zoom level selection by pressing ESC or clicking outside the selection box
New in FreeVimager 3.9.5 (Feb 27, 2012)
- Better and faster printing for low-resolution images (1bpp, 4bpp, 8bpp and 16bpp)
- Updated toolbar min. width calculation
New in FreeVimager 3.9.0 (Dec 20, 2011)
- Reduced dialogs and resources
- Fixed randomness for slideshow in random mode
New in FreeVimager 3.7.0 (Dec 20, 2011)
- Rename command (F2 key)
- String and other fixes
- Dropped memory mapped BMP support (today's PC have enough RAM)
New in FreeVimager 3.5.5 (Oct 11, 2011)
- No changes (be in sync with ContaCam version)
New in FreeVimager 3.5.0 (Sep 21, 2011)
- Fixed Xmp metadata reading, sometimes this caused a really slow loading of jpeg or tiff files
- Animated gifs are now displaying in high quality when that setting is chosen
- libpng updated to 1.2.46
New in FreeVimager 3.3.0 (Sep 21, 2011)
- Optimized installer size and removed installer CRC check because it can fail on network shares
- Fixed background color popup not displaying correctly bug appeared with version 3.1.0 and affecting the unicode executable running under Win 2003, XP and Win 2000
- Enhanced the Paste command
- Fixed Preview Display not showing correctly bug for small sizes on Windows 7
- Added a Cut operation to the Crop/Copy/Cut command
New in FreeVimager 3.1.0 (Jul 9, 2011)
- New compile with MFC security update (MS11-025 and KB2538241)
New in FreeVimager 3.0.0 (Jul 9, 2011)
- Fixed W/H ratio info display for the crop tool with cm units
- Optimized first picture soft load
- Main window and File Info dialogs are restored to the primary monitor if the last position is on a invalid monitor (for example after the removal of a video projector)
- Enhanced translations
- Added some codecs
New in FreeVimager 2.3.9 (Mar 14, 2011)
- Fixed playing problems for audio files with really long path
- Fixed Loading... keeps occasionally showing in file open dialog
- Fixed animated gif preview problems in file open dialog for big files with many frames
- German translation
New in FreeVimager 2.3.5 (Feb 23, 2011)
- Standalone version is now clean: it will not create a directory in the user's application data folder
- View image location in Google Map
New in FreeVimager 2.3.0 (Feb 23, 2011)
- Open in full-screen settings option
- Possibility to play slideshow in random order
New in FreeVimager 2.1.0 (Feb 23, 2011)
- More robust thread start/stop logic
New in FreeVimager 2.0.9 (Feb 23, 2011)
New in FreeVimager 2.0.7 (Aug 13, 2010)
- In this release there are bug fixes and translation fixes
- Added touch screen gestures support for zoom in/out and for next/previous picture
- Fixed batch processing when input and output files have overlapping names in same directory (-> reorder in same directory now works as expected!)
New in FreeVimager 2.0.5 (May 19, 2010)
- In this release there are translation fixes, download it from here
- YUV video rendering support check
- New internal avi audio/video codecs (lossless, mjpeg, theora, vorbis and ADPCM)
New in FreeVimager 2.0.1 (Apr 26, 2010)
- Small bug fixes, download it from here
- New internal avi audio/video codecs (lossless, mjpeg, theora, vorbis and ADPCM)
- Two ultra small standalone exe versions: one optimized for Win2000 or higher, the other works on all Windows versions
New in FreeVimager 2.0.0 (Apr 14, 2010)
- New internal avi audio/video codecs (lossless, mjpeg, theora, vorbis and ADPCM)
- Two ultra small standalone exe versions: one optimized for Win2000 or higher, the other works on all Windows versions
New in FreeVimager 1.9.7 (Sep 4, 2009)
- New Crop/Copy rectangle... command which supports intuitive rectangular selection
- Tiff loading is more fault tolerant
New in FreeVimager 1.9.5 (May 12, 2009)
- In this release there are some bug fixes, download it from here
- Added toolbar buttons for: Save As, Rotate 180°, Next and Previous Page for multi-page tiffs
- Paste Into with different corners and coordinates text file, there is a new tutorial explaining that
- Bmp loading is more fault tolerant
New in FreeVimager 1.9.0 (Nov 20, 2008)
- In this release there are bug fixes and speed optimizations, download it from here
- Save As Pdf command
- A New command for empty documents creation
- Shorter tutorials
- Jpeg loading is more fault tolerant