Windows Image Viewer Replacement February 5, 2023
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When I upgraded to Windows 10, I quickly started to miss the image viewer that came with Win 7.
The image viewer of Win10 is bad enough that I decided to write my own as a replacement that had more of a feel of the win 7 version.

Image formats supported:
GIF, BMP, DDS, EXR, HDR, ICO, IFF, JNG, JPG, JPEG 2000, KOALA, LBM, Kodak, MNG, PCS, PBM, PGM, PNG, PPM, Photoshop (PSD), Fax G3, SGI, RAS, TARGA, TIFF, WEBP, XBM and XPM

Other features:

  • Drag and drop loading
  • scroll wheel zoom and mouse panning
  • Load next and previous image in directory with arrow keys
  • Print image

Update 2/1/2024
I’ve updated the program with the ability to send the current image to the default windows printer. The image will print with it’s current zoom and orientation.
The command is: Left Control + p
Let me know if you encounter a bug.

Download EXE and BlitzMax source code Here

The source code is a bit messy. When I wrote the tool I was doing a lot experimenting and never initially intended to share the project. It’s only about 300 lines of code though.