What's new in Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable FreeVimager 9.9.20 (Dec 7, 2021)
- Better clipboard support for images with transparency
- Updated the avir library to version 3.0
New in Portable 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 Portable FreeVimager 9.9.18 (Jun 8, 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 Portable FreeVimager 9.9.17 (Apr 19, 2021)
- We have got a code signing certificate
New in Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable FreeVimager 9.9.14 (Jan 4, 2021)
- No changes (be in sync with ContaCam version)
New in Portable 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 Portable FreeVimager 9.9.12 (Nov 17, 2020)
- Trim leading/trailing spaces for entered donation email address
New in Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable FreeVimager 9.9.7 (Jan 30, 2020)
- Supporting high DPI aware NSIS 3 (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System)
New in Portable FreeVimager 9.9.5 (Dec 19, 2019)
- Bottom toolbar color popup must not cover its own button
New in Portable FreeVimager 9.9.3 (Nov 25, 2019)
- Increased a security check limit which prevented loading big .png images
New in Portable FreeVimager 9.9.0 (Oct 11, 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 Portable FreeVimager 9.7.0 (Jun 20, 2019)
- Improved languages support
New in Portable FreeVimager 9.0.9 (Feb 19, 2019)
- New temperature, humidity, pressure and water depth exif tags
- Updated the AVIR library to version 2.2
New in Portable FreeVimager 9.0.5 (Nov 8, 2018)
- Building the application with LARGEADDRESSAWARE set to have up to
- the double of address spac
New in Portable FreeVimager 9.0.1 (Sep 20, 2018)
New in Portable 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 Portable FreeVimager 7.7.0 (Feb 19, 2018)
- Bigger close buttons for dialogs (handy for tablets)
- Replaced menu circles with check marks
New in Portable 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 Portable FreeVimager 7.0.0 (May 14, 2017)
New in Portable FreeVimager 5.5.0 (Feb 19, 2017)
- libpng updated to 1.2.57
- Fixed memory leak of CRT threads under Windows XP
New in Portable FreeVimager 5.3.0 (Nov 19, 2016)
- Using the AVIR image resizing algorithm
New in Portable 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 Portable FreeVimager 5.0.9 (Jun 27, 2016)
- Enhanced the Sharpen dialog by using the unsharp mask method
New in Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable FreeVimager 5.0.1 (Oct 4, 2015)
- Small enhancements and fixes
- Full Vietnamese language support
New in Portable 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 (thanks to Oleg A. Glushko which convinced me to implement a solution for the wrong file extension problem)
- 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 Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable FreeVimager 4.1.0 (Dec 5, 2012)
- Fixed wrong parsing of dpi value for some type of jpeg files
New in Portable FreeVimager 4.0.9 (Dec 5, 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 Portable FreeVimager 4.0.7 (Nov 3, 2012)
- New Scan and Email toolbar button
- New Screenshot toolbar button
- Small fixes
New in Portable FreeVimager 4.0.5 (Aug 28, 2012)
- Possibility to extract all pages from a multi-page tiff file
New in Portable 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 Portable FreeVimager 4.0.1 (Jul 10, 2012)
- Fixed uniqueness of temporary files
New in Portable 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 Portable 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 Portable 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