QuickViewer
A image/comic viewer application for Windows, Mac and Linux, it can show images very fast
Project Website(in English / Japanese)
- GitHub (Official, source code repository)
- OSDN (Second official, in Japanese)
Summary
- To show images very fast (using OpenGL)
- Portable (without installers, registries, external libraries)
- 2 Page Spread viewing (two images once, for digital books/comics)
- To read archives directly (zip/7z/rar/cbz/cb7/cbr/cab/tar.gz/tar.bz2/tar.xz/etc...)
- To show images (bmp/png/jpeg/ico/dds/tga/tiff/gif)
- Supported for modern formats(JPEG 2000/JPEG XR/WebP)
- Supported for Animated PNG(APNG)/GIF
- Auto rotation (using JPEG EXIF)
- To show Raw digital camera images
- Canon(crw, cr2)
- Nicon(nef)
- Sony(arw)
- Ricoh(dng)
- etc..
- Can make/view/search catalog from thousands of your digital books
- Multilingual support(English/Spanish/Simplified Chinese/French/Arabic/Russian/Japanese/Greek)
Download
- Windows zip (x86/x64)
- Mac dmg (x64)
- Linux AppImage (x64)
Contributing
Contributions go far beyond pull requests and commits. Although we love giving you the opportunity to put your stamp on QuickViewer, we also are thrilled to receive a variety of other contributions including:
- Documentation updates, enhancements, designs, or bugfixes
- Spelling or grammar fixes
- Additional other language translations, espetially yours, this is very easy
- README.md corrections or redesigns
- Adding unit, or functional tests
- Triaging GitHub issues -- especially determining whether an issue still persists or is reproducible.
- Blogging, speaking, tweeting
We contracted with OpenCollective to allow this project to accept donations. Your one-off, or ongoing, money contributions will help us improve QuickViewer's capabilities and make it easier to use on each computer.
https://opencollective.com/quickviewer
Screenshots
1 page viewing
2 page spread viewing
Stripped viewing
If you want, you can remove all attached bars and display only images. Hidden bars are displayed automatically when needed.
How to use
- Run the app, and drop image folder/archive to the window.
- Create shortcut, and drop image folder/archive on it.
Features
- Next Page (Press 'right Arrow Key', 'Mouse wheel down', 'Mouse forward button', or Click left end of window)
- Prev Page (Press 'left Arrow Key', 'Mouse wheel up', 'Mouse back button', or Click right end of window)
- Fullscreen (Press 'F11 Key', click Mouse wheel, or 'Esc Key'(to windowed only))
- Auto loading (auto loading the last book when the app executed)
- Fittng (To fit images up to window size)
- Spread viewing (two image once)
- Bound on the right side book(e.g. Japanese Style)
- Pre page loading(since v0.2.0)
- Exif Information(since v0.3.0)
- Show Windows Explorer for the current image
- Put the current image into your mailer
- Shader Program Filters(since v0.5.1)
- Nearest Neighber
- Bilinear
Bicubic (by GPU, obsoleted since v0.9.3)Lanczos (obsoleted since v0.9.3)- Bicubic by CPU
- Lanczos3 by CPU (since 1.0.9)
- Lanczos4 by CPU (since 1.0.9)
- Catalog(since v0.6.0)
- Database for your digital books, can manage thansands of volumes, quick view and search
- File Associations(since v0.8.3)
- Retouching(change Brightness, Contrast, Gamma value, since 1.0.8)
Screen operations
You can do screen operations with the main menu, tool bar, mouse button, wheel, keyboard and so on.
| Operation | Device | Input | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Page | Keyboard | Right Key(→) | |
| Keyboard | Space Key | ||
| Mouse Wheel | Downward scrolling | ||
| Mouse | Forward Button | ||
| Touch Panel | Swipe left | at the bottom of the screen | |
| Prev Page | Keyboard | Left Key(←) | |
| Keyboard | BackSpace Key | ||
| Mouse Wheel | Upward scrolling | ||
| Mouse | Back Button | ||
| Touch Panel | Swipe right | at the bottom of the screen | |
| First Page | Keyboard | Home Key | |
| Last Page | Keyboard | End Key | |
| Next Volume | Keyboard | Page Down Key | open a folder/archive of neighbor |
| Prev Volume | Keyboard | Page Up Key | open a folder/archive of neighbor |
| Fullscreen | Keyboard | F11 Key | |
| Mouse | Wheel Clicked | as Center Button | |
| Keyboard | ESC Key | Fullscreen mode only | |
| Touch Panel | Swipe up with two fingers | ||
| Exit App | Keyboard | ESC Key | not Fullscreen mode only |
| Scale Up | Keyboard | Ten keys(+) | do nothing with Fitting |
| Scale Down | Keyboard | Ten keys(-) | do nothing with Fitting |
| Fitting | Keyboard | F12 Key | |
| Keyboard | Ten keys(-) | ||
| Mouse | Right Button + Wheel Clicked | ||
| Mouse | Ctrl + Wheel Clicked | ||
| Image to trash box | Keyboard | Delete Key | Move the Image of current page to trash box |
| Rename Image | Keyboard | F2 Key | |
| Copy Image | Keyboard | Ctrl+C Key | Copy Image of current page |
| Zoom in | Mouse Wheel | Right Button + Upward scrolling | |
| Mouse Wheel | Ctrl + Upward scrolling | ||
| Zoom out | Mouse Wheel | Right Button + Downward scrolling | |
| Mouse Wheel | Ctrl + Downward scrolling |
System Requirement
- Operating System
- Windows Vista,7 or newer
- Windows Sever 2008 or newer
- Linux Distributions(Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Fedora, etc..)
- CPU
- minimum Dual Core(more better with internal GPU or external GPU)
- Memory
- over 1GB free Memory(strongly recommended on x64 architecture)
Looking for contributers!
- Portuguese/Hindu/Bengali/Malay speaker
- Mac/Linux software engeneers
Report issues
Public Project Issues: https://github.com/kanryu/quickviewer/issues
Please report issues as well as configuration details for your working QuickViewer installations at k.kanryu@gmail.com
Thus, your feedback is welcome at KATO Kanryu<k.kanryu@gmail.com>.
Project Source Code Repository
https://github.com/kanryu/quickviewer
To build from the sourcecodes, to see: HowToBuild.md
License
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
