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XnView

Screenshot of XnView showing a .png image with transparency.
Developed by	Pierre-emmanuel Gougelet
Latest release	Windows: 1.95.3 / 5 November 2008; 13 days ago Linux: 1.70 / 07 September 2005; 1168 days ago Mac OS X: 1.70.1 / 28 June 2007; 509 days ago PocketPC: 1.40 / 28 May 2007; 540 days ago Smartphone: 1.10 / 10 September 2007; 435 days ago
OS	Microsoft Windows and Unix-like
Available in	44 languages (Windows only)^[1]
Type	Image viewer
License	Freeware
Website	www.xnview.com

XnView is a free cross-platform image viewer used for viewing, converting, organising and editing graphical & video files. It is free of charge for private non-commercial, educational use and non-profit organisations. XnView for Unix-like is free for commercial use as well. It is popular with users as it provides many features normally found in commercial image viewers and it supports many image file formats that other powerful image organizers such as ACDSee do not. The author no longer uses exe compressors to compress executables in the newest version, 1.95, after a long discussion about XnView 1.95 rc1 in the official forum.^[2]^[3]

1 Features
2 Windows Mobile version
3 Problems
4 Reception
5 XnView MP
6 XnView Deluxe
7 See also
8 References
9 External links

Features

XnView is highly customisable and multi-lingual, supporting 44 languages in the Windows version.^[1] The language can be changed via the options menu. The toolbar buttons can be modified to a certain extent, or be replaced by altering skins.

Also, XnView has been able to support more and more file formats (mainly image file formats). It can read more than 400 image file formats, some audio and video file formats, and write 50 image file formats.^[1] XnView also supports ICC profiles in JPEG, PNG and TIFF files.

XnView can show IPTC, Exif and XMP metadata, and write IPTC metadata (but cannot do batch writing of IPTC metadata, and some users are longing for the batch IPTC editing function).^[4] A further limitation is that it currently does not allow to sort thumbnails within a folder by a user-defined order.^[5]

XnView can search files that have the same filename or data, and can search for similar graphics as well.

In addition, the display of the histogram of a picture is possible (IrfanView does not have this function). And within a few mouse clicks, scripts can be created to convert, manipulate and rename a batch of images in one go.

Several image editing tools are included, for instance color and size manipulation, several filters and effects (full version even includes Harry's Filters 3.0). Lossless (without new encoding) turning, flipping and cropping of JPEG files is supported. Creation of advanced slideshows is possible as well. Furthermore, it can upload images to an FTP site or ImageShack, burn images to a CD or DVD (Nero Burning ROM required) with a few clicks (full version only).

XnView is accompanied by NConvert, a command line image conversion tool.

Windows Mobile version

XnView exists now for PocketPC and Smartphone with Windows Mobile 5 & 6, Pocket PC 2002-2005.

Problems

XnView does not support Unicode, however the author promises that in v2.0 Unicode will be supported.^[6]

Reception

Please help improve this section by expanding it. Further information might be found on the talk page or at requests for expansion. (October 2008)

XnView has been awarded by various sites, e.g. Tucows.^[7]^[8]

XnView MP

The author creates XnView MP (XnView Multi Platform) to replace XnView for *nix and XnView for Mac OS X. The final version would include all the features in XnView 1.92, Unicode support, internal 16/32 bits per component support, easier handling of native language support (text based files) and better database. Currently the newest version is 0.10.

XnView Deluxe

Please help improve this section by expanding it. Further information might be found on the talk page or at requests for expansion. (September 2008)