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JPEGView Changelog

What's new in JPEGView 1.3.46

Oct 8, 2023
  • New features:
  • Add support for modern RAW image formats with LibRaw, ex: CR3 (ICC profiles are supported)
  • PR #211, thanks qbnu
  • Add basic support for PSD (Adobe Photoshop Document)
  • Color modes supported: Grayscale, RGB, CMYK, Multichannel, Duotone, Lab
  • 8-bit depth PSDs only
  • Compression modes supported: Raw/Uncompressed, RLE
  • (See PR for detailed supported/unsupported breakdown)
  • PR #233, thanks qbnu
  • Add support for reading EXIF data from JXL, HEIF, AVIF, WebP and PNG files
  • PR #213, thanks qbnu
  • Misc EXIF Metadata fixes:
  • GPS info parsed from RAW metadata
  • GPS coordinates in degrees+decimal minutes will now be converted to degrees+minutes+seconds
  • Altitudes below sea level will now show negative
  • Metadata will be shown for either RAW or JPEG, with RAW taking precedence
  • PR #211, thanks qbnu
  • RAW metadata's acquisition date shown in window title
  • PR #242, thanks qbnu
  • Add multithreading when decoding with libavif and reduced memory usage
  • Up to ~20% decoding speed improvement
  • PR #204, thanks qbnu
  • Optimize JXL and HEIF RGBA -> BGRA conversion
  • Speed up ~25% for JXL and ~150% for HEIF
  • PR #234, thanks qbnu
  • New INI file setting: WindowBorderlessOnStartup
  • On startup, set JPEGView window to borderless mode (title bar hidden)
  • New INI file setting: WindowAlwaysOnTopOnStartup
  • On startup, set JPEGView window to be always on top
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Adjust animation frame times to appear closer to their actual values
  • Accounts for time spent processing frame. (Minimum frame time is 10ms due to technical limitations)
  • PR #205, thanks qbnu
  • Changed behavior:
  • INI Option: UseEmbeddedColorProfiles=true can be used without losing Animated PNG support
  • ICC profiles are not supported for Animated PNG
  • PR #202, thanks qbnu
  • Renamed INI Option: OverrideOriginalFileWithoutSaveDialog -> OverwriteOriginalFileWithoutSaveDialog
  • Renamed INI Option: TrimWithoutPromptLosslessJPEG -> CropWithoutPromptLosslessJPEG
  • Other changes:
  • Updated to library versions:
  • libavif 1.0.1
  • libde265 1.0.12
  • libjxl 5d20fbe
  • libpng 1.6.40
  • libwebp 1.3.2 (Fixes CVE-2023-4863)
  • zlib 1.3
  • PR #235, thanks qbnu
  • Official scoop.sh support in bucket extras/jpegview-fork
  • PR #223, thanks Tim Martin
  • Localization updates:
  • New language: sl Slovenian, thanks Jadran Rudec
  • New language: tr Turkish, thanks Kaya Zeren
  • New language: bg Bulgarian, thanks Ivan Georgiev
  • New translation: sr Serbian, thanks Ljuba Cirovic
  • New translation: hu Hungarian, thanks József Ujvári
  • New translation: fi Finnish, thanks Kari Eveli
  • New translation: sk Slovak, thanks Marián Hikaník
  • New translation: ta Tamil, thanks Nirmal G.
  • Updated Japanese translation, thanks maboroshin
  • Updated Korean translation, thanks VenusGirl
  • Updated Russian translation, thanks Dmitry Yerokhin
  • Updated Chinese (Taiwan) translation, by converting chs -> cht
  • Updated French translation, thanks Ronan Plantec
  • Updated Greek translation, thanks Michalis
  • Updated Polish translation, thanks Marcin Czerwien
  • Rename INI option: bel -> be (official ISO 639-1 naming)
  • Rename language: Belorussian to Belarusian (official naming)

New in JPEGView 1.2.45 (Mar 6, 2023)

  • This is primarily a bugfix release, with the new ICC profile support feature.
  • (Minor version bumped to reflect the long awaited bugfix for JPEGView freezing when panning images on newer computers with AVX2 support and 4K+ resolutions.)
  • New features:
  • Add support for ICC Profiles embedded in WebP, JPEG XL, HEIF/HEIC and AVIF images
  • Set INI option UseEmbeddedColorProfiles=true to enable.
  • NOTE: Currently, this option will disable Animated PNG due to usage of GDI+ (see 1.1.44 release notes)
  • PR #156, thanks qbnu
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Fixed: Freeze in JPEGView when CPUType set/auto-detected as AVX2, HighQualityResampling=true, and window width > 3200 pixels (either spanned over multi-monitor or on a single monitor).
  • (This outstanding bug had been extensively reported since v1.0.35+. Thanks to everyone who provided samples, videos, and system configurations to help identify the specific conditions necessary to trigger this bug!)
  • Fixed: Regression introduced in 1.1.44 which caused Fit Image to Screen to create a tiny window instead of a window which filled the screen.
  • Fixed: In certain cases with certain image, after zooming out to 0% (as far as allowed), zooming in did not work and got stuck at 0%
  • Fixed: FileNameFormat INI option %filesize% substitution now shows MB when exceeding 1 MB, not 100 MB
  • Other changes:
  • Updated French translation, thanks LaurentGrenet

New in JPEGView 1.2.0.0 (Jul 17, 2022)

  • File selection dialog.
  • ouse context menu.
  • Brightness/Contrast/Hue/Saturation/Color Balance tool.

New in JPEGView 1.1.1.0 (Jul 5, 2022)

  • File selection dialog.
  • Mouse context menu.
  • Brightness/Contrast/Hue/Saturation/Color Balance tool.

New in JPEGView 1.1.0 (Jul 1, 2022)

  • Removed obsolete Visual Studio solutions 2013, 2017, etc. VS2019 is the only supported now.
  • Included WTL library into repository. No external dependencies remained. Just git-clone and build.
  • Updated to much faster Turbo JPEG library version 2.1.0 (4/23/2021).
  • Updated to Google’s WebP library version 1.2.0 HEAD at commit 05b72d4 (4/28/2021).
  • Some minor bug fixes.

New in JPEGView 1.0.37 (Feb 24, 2018)

  • New features:
  • Support for display of GPS coordinates/altitude of JPEG images
  • Location can be shown on map in browser, use new INI setting 'GPSMapProvider' to configure
  • Other changes:
  • New INI file setting: MouseWheelZoomSpeed
  • New command in keymap.txt: IDM_TOGGLE_FILL_WITH_CROP_100_PERCENTS - %exepath% placeholder can be used in IniEditor setting
  • Reading whole INI file with a single API call - Reading ISO EXIF tag 0x8833 that stores high ISO values

New in JPEGView 1.0.36 (Dec 28, 2017)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Fixed problem with EXIF rotation combined with 'Keep parameters' mode (F4).
  • Fixed bug causing wrong image display when minimal display time was set in windowed mode.
  • Fixed bug with navigation mode 'Show Subfolders' and 'Show siblings' and WrapAroundFolder=true.
  • Could not load file on command line in current folder without leading .
  • Made printing more robust when no default printer defined
  • Other changes:
  • "Set current parameters as default values": Saving more parameters to INI file
  • Alt+R to resume stopped slide show.
  • New INI file settings:
  • SkipFileOpenDialogOnStartup. Set to true to skip the 'Open' dialog when starting JPEGView
  • LandscapeMode. Set to true to turn on landscape enhancement mode by default
  • IniEditor. Sets the application to use for editing INI files
  • New command line paramters: /ini [INI file title]. Allows using alternative INI files
  • Improved precision of fixed point arithmetics in up- and downsampling filters. Using more filter kernels for upsampling, thus allowing larger upsampling factors (> 30)

New in JPEGView 1.0.35.1 (Apr 8, 2016)

  • Bugs fixed: 64 bit version did not work on CPUs not supporting AVX

New in JPEGView 1.0.35 (Apr 3, 2016)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Fixed font handle leak, preventing display of movies with more than 5000 frames when EXIF display was enabled during movie playing
  • Reading/saving auto zoom mode correctly from/to INI file
  • Showing zoom factor correctly during slide shows (when shown in Ctrl-F2 display)
  • New features:
  • Support for AVX2 (256 bit SIMD) on processors providing this instruction set (Haswell and later). 64 bit version only!
  • New admin menu item: Update user setting
  • Updates the user settings with new settings from INI template file, while preserving all existing user settings.
  • Other changes:
  • Increased maximum image size to 500 MPixels for 64 bit version
  • Increased maximum JPEG comment length to 4096 characters
  • Changed Ctrl-F11 behavior when 'Fit window to image' is on but window does not fit image: Makes window fitting
  • Readme.html uses css
  • Help display (F1) now uses own window
  • Updated Spanish translation

New in JPEGView 1.0.34 (Jan 5, 2016)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Window frame remains visible when starting in full screen mode and using classic windows style
  • Fit to screen is kept with 'Keep parameters' when zoom is required in full screen mode
  • Removing image from read-ahead cache when it was destructively processed so that it gets reloaded next time it is accessed
  • New features:
  • Printing: Fill with crop mode and ability to move the image with the mouse within the printeable area
  • JPEG comment segment is taken over from existing JPEG when saving to new JPEG
  • Showing some meta data for camera RAW images with F2
  • Considering image orientation from camera RAW images
  • Japanese translation
  • Polish translation
  • New INI file settings:
  • SingleFullScreenInstance=true/false - Allows multiple instances of JPEGView to run in full screen mode
  • UserCropAspectRatio=x y - Sets the user crop aspect ratio, x and y are integers
  • TransparencyColor=R G B - Color used for transparent parts of images
  • ShowEXIFDateInTitle=true/false - Show/Hide the acquisition date from EXIF data in the window title
  • WallpaperPath=path - Set path to store desktop wallpaper image
  • AutoZoomModeFullscreen - Set auto zoom mode for fullscreen mode differently than auto zoom mode for windowed mode

New in JPEGView 1.0.33 (Jan 8, 2015)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Fixed error when deletion of file fails (e.g. because it is on a read-only storage)
  • New features:
  • Support for image printing
  • Free rotation is now stored in the parameter DB if no destructive processing (e.g. crop) has been applied before
  • Free rotation can be chained without error propagation because image is reloaded before rotation is applied. This only applies if no destructive processing (e.g. crop) has been applied in the processing chain.
  • New INI file settings:
  • MinimalWindowSize=width height Allows setting the minimal window size in pixels
  • MinimalDisplayTime = value Minimal display time of an image when using the PgDn/PgUp keys (in milliseconds [0..1000 ms])
  • Other changes:
  • Hiding parameter DB buttons when image is processed destructively as these operations cannot be stored in the parameter DB.

New in JPEGView 1.0.32.2 (Dec 5, 2014)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • More tolerance on corrupt EXIF data offsets - image is now displayed in this case (without EXIF of course)
  • Showing mouse cursor before asking for confirmations if mouse cursor was off before
  • ESC works again when no image is loaded into JPEGView (e.g. because the last image in a folder was deleted)
  • Taking DisplayMonitor into account also in windowed mode, not only fullscreen mode
  • Using forced sort order on command line (e.g. /order Z) also for slideshow lists
  • New features:
  • Set current image as desktop wallpaper
  • You can either set the original image (in Windows XP only BMP is supported) or the processed image as displayed.
  • The later is using also the size as displayed.
  • Other changes:
  • Removed 'Edit global settings' menu entry. This has led to confusion as users unintentionally edit the global
  • INI file instead of the user INI file and wonder why the settings are not working.
  • If you need this menu item, set AllowEditGlobalSettings=true in the INI file to force showing it.
  • Batch rename dialog: Supporting %h and %min placeholders for hour and minute of modification date

New in JPEGView 1.0.32.1 (Mar 31, 2014)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Prefetching image of correct size in windowed mode - prefetching was actually not working in this situation
  • and thus performance was poor in 1.0.32 in windowed mode.
  • Auto-zoom-mode 'Fill with crop': Handling portrait orientation images correctly in all cases
  • Other changes:
  • Expanding environment variables in user commands and open with commands
  • New command available for mapping to a key: IDM_RENAME to rename current file.
  • By default this command is not mapped to a key and only availabe by clicking on the file name on the bottom panel.
  • Finer granularity control over deleting files (confirmations, availability)
  • AllowFileDeletion=false : Allows disabling file deleting in JPEGView
  • DeleteConfirmation=Always/OnlyWhenNoRecycleBin/Never : Controls confirmation when deleting with navigation panel button
  • When deleting files with the navigation panel button (x), a confirmation is required for files that are deleted permanently.
  • This is the case for drives that have no recylce bin, like memory sticks or network drives.
  • Updated Portuguese translation

New in JPEGView 1.0.32.0 (Mar 24, 2014)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Window size in windowed mode was some pixels too small due to invalid reporting of window border size by OS
  • Fixed wrong line break in file titles in info panel for long file names
  • SingleInstance=true, fixed error on loading image in case window was minimized
  • Lossless JPEG-transformations cannot be applied anymore after the original pixels have been modified, e.g. by a crop. Applying the transformations in this case would lead to unexpected results.
  • New features:
  • 64 bit version (in addition to existing 32 bit version)
  • New image processing: Change size (in menu Transform image > Change size)
  • Improvements in image file deletion
  • Button on navigation panel and 'Del' key deletes the current image file in the same same way Explorer does (by moving to recycle bin)
  • 'Shift+Del' deletes the current image file permanently
  • Showing keyboard shortcuts in tooltips of the toolbox buttons
  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) translation and updated Chinese translation
  • Other changes:
  • Settings/Admin > Set as default viewer: Calls the file association dialog from control panel to perform the associations in Windows 8, because this is the only way under Windows 8 to properly change file associations.
  • Ctrl-X also copies the file name to the clipboard (as Ctrl-C)
  • Using Visual Studio 2013 to compile the 64 bit version

New in JPEGView 1.0.31.1 (Mar 3, 2014)

  • Fixed crash when deleting files in 'Show folders and subfolders' navigation mode
  • Filenames with \t in path are now displayed correctly when using customized file name display format
  • New features:
  • JPEGView is now fully high DPI capable (e.g. 200 % -> 192 dpi) and scales all GUI elements properly to high DPI settings. This fixes problems on high DPI screens.
  • Ctrl-C also copies the file name to the clipboard so that Windows Explorer is able to paste the original file with Ctrl-V
  • Other changes:
  • Moved menu item to store current parameters as default in INI file to 'Setting/Configuration' submenu

New in JPEGView 1.0.31 (Dec 16, 2013)

  • New features:
  • New supported file format: TGA (8, 15, 16, 24, 32 bits) - only for reading
  • User commands extensions:
  • Shortcuts with modifier keys can now be assigned to user commands. Shortcut format is as in the keymap, e.g. 'Ctrl+P'
  • User commands can optionally be bound to a menu item in the submenu 'User commands' in the JPEGView context menu
  • Open with' menu:
  • In Settings/Admin it is possible to define applications to be started in the 'Open with' submenu of the JPEGView context menu.
  • The applications get passed the current image file name as argument on process startup.
  • It is also possible to assign a shortcut key for such an application.
  • Files can be sorted upcounting (default) or downcounting in all display order modes (by date, name, etc)
  • Can be set in the context menu of JPEGView
  • Stored to INI file
  • New display order mode: Sort by file size
  • New INI file setting:
  • UseEmbeddedColorProfiles=[true/false]
  • Setting this to true will enable color management for JPEG images and TIFF images (to the extend GDI+ supports it).
  • Default is 'false' because enabling this setting has some disadvantages:
  • Turbo JPEG does not support embedded profiles, so GDI+ needs to be used what is much slower
  • GDI+ cannot read some valid JPEG files (e.g. some grayscale JPEGs, observed with Windows XP)
  • Notice that GDI+ does not support V4 ICC color profiles in Windows XP. It does support these in Windows 7/8.
  • New INI file settings:
  • DefaultGUIFont=fontName fontSize [bold]
  • FileNameFont=fontName fontSize [bold]
  • Enables to change the GUI font, its size in points and its weight
  • Esc key can now be re-defined in keymap (e.g. to display to 'Open file' dialog)
  • Default remains to exit JPEGView
  • Some minor changes in navigation panel appearance
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Read ahead no longer turned off when failed to read one image
  • Fixed loading error of JPEGs with EXIF data and IDF1 section missing
  • Blending issues with nVidia cards fixed (hopefully now works correctly in all situations)
  • Fixed (sporadic) crash when deleting images permanently with the 'Del' key or when executing other user commands
  • Registration of file extensions in Windows 8 improved. Consider however that Windows 8 protects the standard
  • file associations. For changing these associations the 'Default programs' dialog of Windows 8 must be used.
  • Showing system menu and icon in Windows7/8 when switching from full screen to windowed mode

New in JPEGView 1.0.30 (Nov 2, 2013)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Fixed crash (leading to potential exploit) when image width or height is larger than 32767
  • Improved zoom behavior for zoom < 10 %
  • Slide shows with alpha blending: maybe now also works correctly if graphics driver implements alpha blending somewhat inexactly
  • NoStrCmpLogical registry setting also checked in "LOCAL MACHINE" registry hive
  • Fixed size cropping bug fixed
  • Always registering JPEGView in registry when changing file assignments, thus fixing any invalid path, e.g. resulting from move
  • of the EXE to another directory
  • Animated GIFs and multifram TIFFs can now be moved or deleted while displayed
  • New features:
  • New command line parameter '/autoexit'. If passed, ESC key will terminate JPEGView also if a slideshow is running or an animated GIF is playing.
  • Additionally it will auto-terminate JPEGView after the slideshow has finished when combined with the '/slideshow' command line parameter.
  • Thanks to SourceForge user manuthie for implementing this.
  • New command line parameter '/monitor [index]'. Shows JPEGView on the given monitor, overriding the INI file setting.
  • New placeholders that can be used in user commands:
  • exepath% : Path to EXE folder where JPEGView is running
  • exedrive% : Drive letter of the EXE path, e.g. "c:"
  • Displayed image is reloaded automatically when it changes on disk, using a file system change notifier.
  • The image list of the current directory is also reloaded when images are added or deleted in this directory.
  • To disable the file system notifier, set ReloadWhenDisplayedImageChanged=false in the INI file
  • When canceling the 'Open file' dialog after startup, JPEGView is not terminated but an empty window is shown with some hints what to do.

New in JPEGView 1.0.29 (Apr 22, 2013)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • EXIF (F2) and file name info (Ctrl+F2) no longer flicker when active during slide show with transition effect
  • No logical sorting of file names is done if HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoStrCmpLogical
  • registry value is set to 1. This matches the behavior of the Windows explorer.
  • Note that the default registry value for this is 0, therefore almost all users will notice no change.
  • New features:
  • Support for animated GIFs.
  • Limitations:
  • Saving GIFs will only save the currently displayed frame.
  • Some image processings (e.g. free rotation, perspective correction) will stop the animation and work on a single frame only
  • No caching of the decoded frames. This has pros and cons. Pro is that memory consumption is limited. Con is that the CPU
  • load while playing can be rather high. However on a dual core CPU it's not a problem.
  • Support for multi-page TIFF. Note that (singlepage or multipage) TIFFs compressed with JPEG compression are not supported by GDI+.
  • This is a known issue of GDI+ that cannot be fixed in JPEGView (except if another TIFF library would be used)
  • New INI file setting: FileNameFormat allowing to display configurable information with Ctrl-F2. See INI file for information.
  • Other changes:
  • WebP library 0.3.0 from Google is now used. This version supports lossy and lossless compression.
  • To use lossless compression with the WEBP format, select the "WEBP lossless" file format in the "File Save" dialog.
  • Be warned that lossless WEBP compression is very, very slow (decompression is fast however).

New in JPEGView 1.0.28 (Mar 16, 2013)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Fixed bug in the window resizing code when 'DefaultWindowRect=max' and toggling between 100 % zoom and fit to window (space key)
  • Fixed bug causing that zoom was not saved to parameter DB when auto fitting window to image was on
  • Fixed bug that file pointer was invalid when deleting last file in folder and WrapAroundFolder=false in INI file
  • New algorithm to guess encoding (UTF-8, ANSI) of JPEG comments when no encoding is explicitly specified
  • New features:
  • Support for slide show transition effects (only in full screen mode) This can also be set in the INI file and on the command line
  • File extensions can be registered to be opened by JPEGView over the 'Administration-Set as default viewer...' menu item
  • New info button in top, left corner of screen in fullscreen mode to show EXIF info. EXIF into closable on the EXIF panel itself.
  • When a supported camera RAW file was excluded in INI file but opened nevertheless in JPEGView (e.g. from explorer), the camera raw file type is added temporarily until program termination
  • Russian translation of readme.html
  • Improved Chinese translation

New in JPEGView 1.0.27 (Jan 21, 2013)

  • Replaced Intel JPEG library by Turbo JPEG
  • This replacement has many reasons:
  • The Intel library license was not an open source type license
  • Newer versions of the Intel library are not free of charge. The old versions are not supported by Intel anymore.
  • Some JPEG files could not be read by the Intel library. tjpeg can read these files.
  • There is no free 64 bit version of the Intel library.
  • This is important for the future when there may be a 64 bit version of JPEGView)
  • The tjpeg library is open source and (at least on modern CPUs) performs comparable to the Intel library. It is used by many other
  • viewers and several Linux distributions.
  • Note that tjpeg including lossless JPEG transformations has been statically linked to JPEGView. Therefore the application has grown
  • by 300 KB. However the total size of the package is lower than before because IJL15.dll and jpegtran.exe are no longer needed.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • When a folder is called 'pictures.jpg' for example, JPEGView no longer tries to process this folder as image
  • Exposure time display: When nominator and denominator are both big numbers, a fractional value is shown instead of bigNum/bigDenum
  • Reading slideshow list files (txt) encoded with UTF-8 and UTF-16 (little endian only) correctly
  • Reading slideshow list files (txt) using uppercase file endings for image files correctly
  • New features:
  • Lossless JPEG transformations integrated into JPEGView. The jpegtran.exe application is no longer part of the distribution of JPEGView.
  • Basque translation
  • Chinese translation
  • Keymap.txt now also supports to remap mouse buttons to commands.
  • New INI file setting: 'TrimWithoutPromptLosslessJPEG'. Set to true to trim image before lossless JPEG transformations if needed without
  • prompting the user for each image.
  • New INI file setting: DefaultWindowRect=sticky to save and restore the window size and position in window mode
  • New INI file setting: 'SingleInstance'. Set to true to open all images in one single instance (window) of JPEGView.
  • New INI file setting: 'ShowBottomPanel'. Set to false to disable showing the bottom panel when hovering with the mouse on bottom part
  • of window/screen.
  • Default is true (as before, was not configurable).
  • New INI file setting: 'MaxSlideShowFileListSizeKB'. Sets maximum size of slide show text files in KB.
  • New INI file setting: 'ForceGDIPlus'. If true, use GDI+ for reading JPEGS. Note that using GDI+ is much slower than the tjpeg library!
  • New command line parameters:
  • slideshow xx - Starts JPEGView in slideshow mode, xx denotes the switching time in seconds. Only use when providing a file name,
  • folder name or file list on the command line as first parameter.
  • Example: jpegview.exe "filelist.txt" /slideshow 2
  • fullscreen - Starts JPEGView in full screen mode, ignoring the INI file setting that is currently active
  • order x - Forces file ordering mode 'x', ignoring the INI file setting that is currently active
  • x' can be M, C, N or Z, for the file ordering modes 'M:modification date', 'C:creation date', 'N:file name', 'Z:random'
  • Example: jpegview.exe c:\pictures /slideshow 2 /order z
  • Shows a slideshow of the files in the folder "c:\pictures" using random ordering and an interval of 2 seconds.
  • Other changes:
  • Because the tjpeg static library cannot be linked with VS2005, JPEGView is now compiled with VS2010. If you are using Windows XP
  • before SP2, install SP2 or keep using version 1.0.26.

New in JPEGView 1.0.26 (Jan 24, 2012)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Lossless rotate and crop now works in folders containing Unicode characters in the path. Note that the file title must not contain Unicode characters due to the fact that jpegtrans.exe does not support this.
  • New features:
  • Portuguese (Portugal) translation, thanks to Sérgio Marques
  • Support for viewing embedded JPEG images in camera RAW files using code from the dcraw project.
  • Support for loading images using Windows Image Codecs (WIC). By default WIC is used to load JPEG XR files (also called High definition photo). When using Windows Vista or Windows 7, the Windows Camera Codec pack can be installed to get support for full size camera RAW images in JPEGView. Refer to the readme.html for instructions.
  • New image processing: Perspective correction, use button on navigation panel to activate
  • Rotation and perspective correction: Option to keep aspect ratio when auto cropping
  • New INI file setting: 'AutoRotateEXIF' to disable auto rotation of images based on EXIF image orientation tag. Default is true (the EXIF auto rotation is supported since many versions, this setting is introduced to turn this off).
  • New INI file setting: 'ScaleFactorNavPanel' to scale the navigation panel buttons, e.g. to make them larger on touch screens
  • Clicking into the image (without dragging) toggles visibility of navigation panel
  • Zoom by dragging mouse, activate with 'Shift-left mouse click' or with button on navigation panel
  • Random sorting order for images within folder, can be used e.g. for random slideshow mode (activate with 'z' key)
  • Improved crop handling: Crop rectangle can be resized using handles
  • When in 'Adjust window to image' zoom mode and in window mode, the window adjusts automatically to zoomed image size while zooming
  • Other changes:
  • Russian version of keymap and INI file (KeyMap_ru.txt, JPEGView_ru.ini) containig explanations in Russian. Be aware that these files must be renamed to KeyMap.txt and JPEGView.ini and copied over the original (English) versions when JPEGView shall use them.

New in JPEGView 1.0.25.1 (Nov 14, 2011)

  • Rollback to VS2005 to compile the project because of problems with Windows 7 and Windows XP before SP2.
  • The Windows 7 issues can be solved by using the latest versions of Windows SDK, WTL and ATL but the XP issue can't.
  • JPEGView will remain on VS2005 at least for some versions.
  • For VS2010 users, a solution and project file for VS2010 is included in the source code distribution.
  • WebP library needs to be compiled with VS2010 as the VS2005 compiler produces crashing code from the Google source - so WebP will not work in XP SP1 or earlier.
  • libwebp_a.dll made delay loaded - therefore JPEGView runs without this DLL when you do not need webp.

New in JPEGView 1.0.25 (Nov 12, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Previous image now works correctly when WrapAroundFolder is set to false
  • New features:
  • Czech translation
  • Greek translation
  • WEBP image format supported (load and save), using the source code provided by Google
  • Keyboard shortcuts are now defined in the file KeyMap.txt, located in the EXE folder. Users can edit the key map if desired.
  • New INI file setting: ExchangeXButtons to exchange the forward and backward mouse buttons (default is true, now can be switched to false)
  • Putting file name first in window title (as it is convention in Windows) Double-click to fit image to screen (according auto zoom mode currently set), respectively 100 % when already fit
  • New transformations: Mirror horizontally and vertically (and put the rotation commands also under the new transformations submenu)
  • Other changes:
  • After having had massive problems with a compiler bug when compiling the WEBP source code, I decided to switch to Visual Studio 2010. Install VS 2010 to compile JPEGView
  • Express Edition (free) is sufficient.

New in JPEGView 1.0.24.1 (Oct 12, 2011)

  • Crash fixed when zooming down images of some sizes to 10 %

New in JPEGView 1.0.24 (Jun 17, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Navigation panel not truncated when window is small, instead the buttons are smaller. Tooltip texts are also no longer truncated in small windows. Modification date displayed with correct time zone adjustment
  • New features:
  • Portuguese translation
  • New windowed mode that fits window size to image size, avoiding black borders. Enable in INI file using: DefaultWindowRect=image
  • New auto full screen mode that starts JPEGView in fullscreen mode when the image is larger than the screen or in windowed mode (window fit to image) when the image is small enough to fit to the screen.
  • Enable in INI file using: ShowFullScreen=auto Note: This is the new default value in the INI file.
  • Changed behaviour:
  • In the EXIF display (F2), the file name is broken into multiple lines when it is very long
  • F11 key is now used for toggling full screen (used to be Ctrl-W). Navigation panel visibility now uses Ctrl-N (instead of F11)
  • If the first image shown is smaller than the screen, JPEGView now starts in 'window fit to image' mode. To restore the old behavior (always use fullscreen), set ShowFullScreen=true in INI file

New in JPEGView 1.0.23 (Mar 15, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Improved memory handling for very large images. Read ahead turned off for very large images.
  • Also improved memory footprint for processing large images by stripwise processing.
  • Note that images > 100 MPixel still fail loading in most cases (tested with XP and 2GB memory)
  • When out of memory, image loading fails with error message instead of crashing
  • Set file modification time to EXIF time now correctly considers time zone
  • New features:
  • New image processing: Rotation by arbitrary angle
  • Using a button on the navigation panel, the image can be rotated with the mouse by a user-defined angle.
  • The preview of rotation is real-time and uses simple point-sampling. When the rotation is applied to the image, bicubic interpolation is done, providing a good quality rotated image.
  • Note that this processing cannot be stored in the parameter DB.
  • Lossless crop
  • Display of JPEG comments (EXIF user comment, EXIF image description, JPEG COM marker, in this order)
  • Use INI file setting ShowJPEGComments to disable display of comments
  • Set modification time to EXIF time for all files in folder
  • New INI file setting: WrapAroundFolder. Can be set to false to disable cyclic navigation within a folder (going from last to first image)

New in JPEGView 1.0.22.1 (Feb 18, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Fixed crash on startup when ShowFullScreen=true in INI file
  • New features:
  • Swedish translation

New in JPEGView 1.0.21 (Feb 18, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • After saving, navigation panel was not painted correctly sometimes
  • New features:
  • New image processing: Unsharp mask Using a button on the image processing panel, an unsharp mask can be applied to the original pixels. Note that preview is always in 100 % zoom. Unsharp masking cannot be stored in the parameter DB and it is not possible to apply unsharp masking automatically after loading each image (unlike other processings)
  • New image processing: Color saturation Support includes: Saturation on image processing panel, default saturation in INI file, parameter DB and landscape picture mode
  • UI colors can be set in INI file. New default colors instead of the traditional green. To restore the old colors, change them in the INI file to: GUIColor=0 255 0 HighlightColor=255 255 255 SelectionColor=255 255 0 SliderColor=255 0 0
  • New INI file setting: OverrideOriginalFileWithoutSaveDialog If set to true, Ctrl-S overrides the original file on disk, applying the current processings without showing a dialog or prompting the user to confirm. Use with care, the original file will be replaced by the processed file!

New in JPEGView 1.0.20 (Feb 18, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Flag 'ReloadCurrent' used in user commands does no longer keep geometric parameters after reloading (zoom, pan, rotate)
  • New features:
  • French translation
  • Korean translation
  • New INI file setting: DefaultSaveFormat to set the default format when saving images

New in JPEGView 1.0.19 (Feb 18, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Corrected Italian translation
  • Hiding of mouse cursor when starting up in window mode and switching to fullscreen mode
  • Application shown in taskbar also when the file open dialog is displayed after startup
  • File names having a & in the name are now displayed correctly
  • New features:
  • 'DefaultWindowRect=max' in INI file will start with maximized window (if fullscreen mode is false)
  • Dropping files or folders to JPEGView from Windows Explorer now works
  • Edit global and user INI file using context menu
  • Backup and restore/merge parameter DB using context menu
  • Small buttons for minimize/restore/close on top, right corner of screen in full screen mode (only shown when mouse moved to top of screen)
  • New crop modes with fixed aspect ratio and fixed crop size
  • Set modification date to current date or to EXIF date
  • New command: Ctrl-M to mark file for toggling. Use Ctrl+Left/Right to toggle between marked files
  • Showing file name in window title
  • Smooth blending in and out of the navigation panel if mouse not moved for some time
  • Thumbnail view behavior changed somewhat - pan by click supported

New in JPEGView 1.0.18 (Feb 18, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Resize now possible to sizes smaller than 800 x 600
  • Renaming files with %x placeholder now works correctly
  • New features:
  • Auto-rotate image using EXIF image orientation
  • Save image in screen size (Ctrl-Shift-S)
  • Keeping last selected image format when saving images
  • Italian translation updated
  • Toggle to window mode and back now first uses low quality sampling and improves quality on idle

New in JPEGView 1.0.17 (Feb 18, 2011)

  • Bugs removed:
  • Image processing panel no longer truncated on 1024x768 screens, sliders are smaller in this case
  • New features:
  • Toggle screen with Ctrl-F12 on multiscreen systems
  • Window mode, toggle between window mode and full screen mode with Ctrl-W or with button on navigation panel The window mode can be made default in INI file and the starting window size can also be set in the INI file
  • New INI file setting (LandscapeModeParams) that allows defining the parameters used in landscape enhancement mode
  • New INI file setting (BackgroundColor) that allows setting the background color
  • New INI file setting (NavigateWithMouseWheel) that allows using the mouse wheel for navigation (Ctrl-Wheel for zoom)

New in JPEGView 1.0.16.1 (Feb 18, 2011)

  • New features:
  • Italian translation

New in JPEGView 1.0.16 (Feb 18, 2011)

  • Bugs removed:
  • PNGs with transparency (alpha channel) are now rendered correctly. Other formats supporting alpha channel are rendered correctly when GDI+ can render them correctly - I have not tested this.
  • The 'R' key for rotating lossless works again
  • Navigation panel was not visible when OS regional settings did not use a point as decimal number separator (All other INI file settings represented by floating point numbers were also not read correctly in this case)
  • Crash removed when scaling up images with heigth=1
  • Cropping small areas (1 x n, n x 1) now possible
  • Not using IJL for 1 channel JPEGs anymore - seems to crash sometimes. GDI+ is used for these images instead.
  • Two bugs fixed causing crashes with very small images or images with extreme aspect ratio
  • New features:
  • Support for multiple CPU cores. To set the number of cores to use to a specific value, set the CPUCoresUsed key to a specific value in the INI file. Default is to use all cores (max 4) of the CPU.
  • Small thumbnail displayed when zooming, showing the visible section of the image. The section can be moved with the mouse in the thumbnail image. To disable this feature set ShowZoomNavigator=false in INI file.
  • Spanish translation
  • About dialog
  • Tooltips for navigation panel buttons
  • New button on navigation panel to switch to actual image size / fit to screen
  • New INI file setting (Language=xx) to force user interface language (default is to use operating system language if supported by JPEGView)
  • New INI file setting (StoreToEXEPath=true/false) forcing to write to config data and parameter DB to EXE path (used when installed on USB stick)

New in JPEGView 1.0.15 (Feb 18, 2011)

  • Bugs removed:
  • If using ClearType fonts, the button text on the image processing area is now rendered correctly
  • EXIF information is now also found if not placed directly after SOI in JPEG image (e.g. after an APP0 block)
  • File name flickering fixed in image processing area (was happening when file name was long)
  • Zoom to 100% now always correctly zooms mouse cursor centered when the cursor is visible
  • New features:
  • Display of EXIF information from digicam JPEG files (F2) - can be made permanantly using the INI file
  • Smoother screen update with less flickering by using back buffering of transparent areas
  • Navigation panel blended into image. The navigation panel is turned on by default but can be disabled with the F11 key. To disable it permanently, press F11 then save the settings to the INI file with the context menu. The blending factor of the panel can be configured also in the INI file.
  • New mode for optimal display of landscape pictures - lightens shadows and darkens highlights very progressively Use Ctrl-L to enable or the button on the navigation panel
  • Other changes:
  • Using smaller font for help display (F1)
  • Exclusion/inclusion folders for LDC and color correction: More specific folder overrides less specific when matching for inclusion and exclusion
  • Using Crop without Ctrl pressed when image cannot be dragged
  • New INI file entry: CreateParamDBEntryOnSave to disable/enable creation of a parameter DB entry for images saved in JPEGView

New in JPEGView 1.0.14 (Feb 18, 2011)

  • Bugs removed:
  • If a JPEG cannot be read with the IJL library, GDI+ is tried as a second chance
  • Copy/rename dialog: Replacement text can now be longer than text input field (auto scroll enabled)
  • Reader no longer crashes when stripe is negative for images read with GDI+
  • Images with ending TIFF are no longer duplicated in file list
  • New features:
  • File open... always uses tumbnail view (not only in 'my picture' directory)
  • Saving files is now possible in the following formats: JPG, BMP, TIFF, PNG
  • Copy/rename dialog: New placeholder %n for number from original file name
  • Panning is faster and uses high quality resampling mode during pan
  • New command to reload current image (Ctrl-R)
  • Crop image section or zoom to image section with CTRL-Left mouse and dragging the mouse
  • Paste image from clipboard (Ctrl-V)
  • Other changes:
  • Color and contrast correction switched off in default INI file. It is recommended to switch it on for dedicated folders only, e.g. folders with digicam photos. Of course any user INI file remains untouched by this change.
  • Due to an internal code simplification, all parameter DB entries for BMP images created with older versions are lost with 1.0.14. Note that other formats (e.g. JPG) are not affected.

New in JPEGView 1.0.13 (Feb 18, 2011)

  • Bugs removed:
  • Sorting by name now works correctly for names of the form X1 X1_y X2 X3
  • When saving default values to INI file using the context menu, these default values are now immediately in effect for the next images
  • New features:
  • File lists (text files) now support relative paths (relative to file list location)
  • Movie mode enhanced and improved, now accessible using the context menu and automatically using fastest processing modes
  • Batch rename/copy, allowing to copy and rename a series of files, e.g. from the digicam to the harddisk. Several placeholders are supported, e.g. file dates and consecutive numbers.
  • Possibility to set the auto zoom mode, enabling to zoom images to fit the screen with or without border
  • Other changes:
  • Keeping parameters between images (F4) will now override any values from the parameter DB while active. Note that while keeping parameters is on, storing to parameter DB is disabled.
  • ICO removed from supported format list - GDI+ claims to be able to read it but can't