PictView 1.94
PictView is a DOS-based multiformat image viewer and converter, one of the
fastest in the world. PictView supports more than 40 file formats in more than
140 versions. PictView is freeware, and you do not have to register to use it, however
donations for the future development are very welcome.
You may proceed directly to downloads .
PictView reads files in the following formats:
In brief: BMI, BMP, BW, CAL, CDR, CDT, CEL, CLP, CMX, CPT, CUR, CUT, DCX, DIB, FLC, FLI, GIF, HAM, HRZ, ICN, ICO, IFF, IMG, JFF, JIF, JMX, JPE, JPG, LBM, MIL, MAC, MSP, OFX, PAN, PAT, PBM, PC2, PCD, PCT, PCX, PGM, PIC, PNG, PNM, PPM, PSD, PYX, QFX, RAS, RGB, RLE, SAM, SCx, SEP, SGI, ST, STW, SUN, TGA, TIFF, UDI, WPG, ZBR
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PictView writes files in the following formats:
In brief: BMP, BW, CEL, CUT, DIB, GIF, ICO, IFF, IMG, JFF, JIF, JPE, JPG, LBM, PBM, PCX, PGM, PIC, PNM, PPM, RAS, RGB, RLE, SCx, SGI, SUN, TGA, TIFF
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Other important features
Single EXE file that uses only 150 KB (plus 24 KB for the configuration program)
Support of multi-page TIFFs, OFX faxes, and DCX faxes
Support of animated GIFs, and of animations in FLI and FLC formats
Fast moving between images using Ctrl-left arrow and Ctrl-right arrow keys
Palette operations (e.g. color reduction, conversion to grayscales)
Automatic palette reduction for viewing of TrueColor (e.g. JPEGs) images on old video-cards supporting at most 256 colors
3 types of resizing of large images to fit them (without scrolling) on screen
Resizing, mirroring, rotating
Command-line conversion and viewing
Dozens of options for conversion and viewing
Support of many non-standard subformats (e.g. 15, 16, 32, and 48bit images)
English, French, and Czech versions
Mouse driven
History
Changes in PictView 1.94
Features added: reading of Zoner Bitmaps BMI
reading of bilevel CALS Raster Type I images
reading of 1, 4, and 24bit packed bitmaps PBM/IFF
reading of NeoPaint Stamps ST and STW
reading of progressive mode JPEGs in grayscales
reading of JPEGs with subsampling 4x1:1x1:1x1
command-line parameter --o for output path/file name
command-line parameter --c for color reduction
the best resolution icon in ICO/CUR files is read by default, the others are accessible now as well
reading of bitmaps embedded to CMX files
Features fixed: padding of IFF/ILBM changed to conform to the seemingly standard way
memory management of decompression of certain JPEGs rewritten, as a result, some wider JPEGs can be read
reading of buggy TrueColor TIFF images created by NeoPaint for DOS 3.2d
reading of wide bilevel TIFFs with G4 fax compression
eager scanning for VESA modes removed on most cards since it was causing strange runtime errors on Windows and OS/2
color reduction
analysis of proprietary LZ encoded bitmaps by Conducent
reading of 4-bit grayscale TIFFs
reading of poorly compressed GIFs
Changes in PictView 1.93a
Features fixed: reading of TrueColor PCXs with odd number of bytes per scan line
rotation and conversion to grayscales of images with 17-255 colors
creating of 256-color ColoRIX SCXs
Changes in PictView 1.93
Features added: reading of 16color Sun Raster images
reading of 48bit TIFFs
reading of 48bit Adobe Photoshop PSDs
reading of further subformats of Dr.Hallo/Dr.Genius
reading of preview and imported bitmaps in CorelDraw! 9.0 CDR images
reading of preview of SmoothMove Pan Viewer images
Ctrl-Right/Left for next/previous image viewing
faster response when viewing animated GIFs
Features fixed: '65535x65535' error modes fixed on several new video cards (such as NVidia)
many bugs in animated GIFs viewing
reading of Progressive JPEGs
reading of uncompressed HiColor MacIntosh PCTs
reading of HiColor PCTs with odd width
reading of Microsoft Paint MSPs with empty lines not included in the file
memory management for GIF reading and writing rewriten. As a result, GIFs can be processed faster and without out of memory errors.
large TIFF reading fixed
XMS allocation under Windows NT improved
analysis of compressed ColoRIX images improved
OS/2 stability improved (OS/2 users, please report, we do not have an OS/2 machine)
Rerelease of March, 4: VESA scanning fixed, reordered and time-out increased
Changes in PictView 1.92
Features added: reading of interlaced 2- and 16-color PNGs
reading of PYXs
option for creating GIF87a or GIF89a
conversion of the 1st frame of Autodesk FLC/FLIs
Ctrl-Left and Ctrl-Right for viewing of multipage TIFFs
option for fast exit without confirmation
option for ignoring transparent background of single-framed GIFs
Features fixed: scrolling of single-framed GIF89a with transparency
reading of mono TIFFs with LZW compression
reading of Macintosh PICTs - a bug introduced in 1.91
reading of Amiga PC2s
blank screen when starting in a monochrome mode
Rerelease on the 6th of Sep '99: a XMS memory allocation bug fixed
Changes in PictView 1.91
Features added: Reading of 16bit uncompressed SGI images in grayscales
Features fixed: Conversion of TrueColor images (e.g. JPEGs) to GIFs
Some bugs related to VESA BIOS 3.0
Changes in PictView 1.90
Features added: French version of PictView available (Bernard Schweitzer, merci!)
Reading of multipage TIFFs - use the CTRL-Left and CTRL-Right keys!
Reading of CCITT IV (T.6) fax TIFFs
Reading of Kodak PhotoCD - Base/16, Base/4 and Base sizes
Reading of OFX fax files used by OLIFAX package
Displaying of DPI in the F3 ImageInfo window
PCX compression and decompression sped up three times
Image resizing (rescaling), including command-line conversion
Creating of Autodesk Animator CELs
Creating of negative (inverse) images
Images can be shrinked for viewing in order to fit on screen
Features fixed: Displaying of animated GIFs
Reading of CCITT G3 Fax TIFFs
Creating of grayscale TIFFs
Creating of MS Windows Icons
Changes in PictView 1.80
Features added: reading of Animated GIFs
reading of bitmaps from Windows Clipboard CLPs
reading of interlaced TrueColor PNGs
reading of compressed SunRaster RAS/SUN images
reading and creating of black-and-white RLE compressed Intergraph RLE images
FLI/FLC viewer built-in to PictView, no external viewer needed
option to create 32bit TGAs on command line conversion
automated conversion from lower to higher bitdepth on command line conversion, if the target format doesn't support source's depth
config option to treat TGA16 images as if they were 15 bit (buggy programs create 15 bit TGAs and label them as 16 bit)
reading of PIC2 JFIF images created by PICPress 3.8
reading of uncommon 15bit TIFFs created by PICPress 3.8
reading of buggy SGI RGB images created by PICPress 3.8
writing of PCXs with optional DPI
Features fixed: reading of black-and-white PCXs
reading of palettes from GIFs with local palette but w/o global palettes
added heuristics into PackBits decompression to correctly treat code 128 (this may have impact on HAMs, IFFs, LBMs, PC2s, PSDs, TIFs )
reading of tiled large uncompressed blocks in PNGs
4:3 ratio is now preserved on command line viewing with specified width