IrfanView 4.44 now available for download

IrfanView

IrfanView is a fast and simple freeware image viewer, editor and converter that supports all major graphic formats, including AIF, ANI/CUR, ASF, AU/SND/AIF, AVI, B3D, BMP/DIB, CAM, CLP, CRW, DAT (VideoCD), DCR, DDS, DXF, Dicom/ACR, DJVU, ECW, EMF/WMF, EPS, FLI/FLC, FPX, FSH, G3, GIF, ICO/ICL/EXE/DLL, IFF/LBM, IMG/GEM, JPG2000, JPG/JPEG, JPM, KDC, LDF, LWF, MED, MID/MIDI/RMI, MNG/JNG, MOV, MP3, MPG/MPEG, MrSID, MRW, NEF, LM/NOL/NGG, OGG, ORF, PBM/PGM/PPM, PCX/DCX, PhotoCD, Mac PICT, PNG, PSD, PSP, QTIF, RAS/SUN, RAW, RAF, RA, RLE, SFF, SFW, SGI/RGB, SWF, TGA, TIF, TTF, TXT, WAD, WAV, WBMP, WBZ/WBC, WMA, WMV, XBM and XPM. In addition it features drag and drop support, directory viewing, TWAIN (Technology Without An Interesting Name) scan support, slide shows, batch conversion, multi language support, thumbnail option, preview option, print option, IPTC edit, capturing, extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs, lossless JPG (Joint Photographic Expert Group) rotation, EXE/SCR creating, many hotkeys, many command line options and modifications such as changing color depth, crop, blur and sharpen.

IrfanView 4.44 changelog:

Metadata PlugIn ported to Unicode (EXIF/IPTC/Comment data in JPG files)
Batch scan dialog: Scan to multipage file works also with PDF output
New Edit menu options: Remove or Insert strip (based on selection)
New Blur filter: Gaussian Blur (thanks to Ivan Kuckir)
New Blur filter: Fast Gaussian Blur (thanks to Mario Klingemann)
New Properties->Fullscreen option: Show blurred image sides
Option to show mouse coordinates (Properties->Viewing)
New options in Histogram dialog: modeless dialog, selections, curves
New effect added: Vertical Shift (Effects browser dialog)
New Thumbnails menu: Show/hide filenames text for thumbnails
New Image->Effects PlugIn: Film Simulation (thanks to Jan Ingwer Baer) (check the PlugIns page for CLUT files download)
New wallpaper option: Fill (Hotkey: CTRL + SHIFT + F)
New Rename dialog option: Rename also sidecar files
New Print dialog option: Save settings (without printing)
Command line option "/append" works also with PDF output
A BMP loading bug fixed (thanks to Ren Yi)
The hotkey "D" (clear screen) works also in Fullscreen/Slideshow mode
Loading crashes fixed in JP2 PlugIn (JPG-2000 format)
The Luratech formats (JP2/JPM) are now Freeware (Saving and Batch mode)
Command line: /convert accepts wildcard also for a single filename, like: i_view32.exe c:\testimg.bmp /convert=c:\tifs\*.tif => save as "testimg.tif"
Command line: /capture=7 can contain the input rectangle, like: i_view32.exe /capture=7=(0,0,800,600)