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)
  • https://kanryu.github.io/quickviewer/
• OSDN (Second official, in Japanese)
  • https://ja.osdn.net/projects/quickviewer/

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

binary distributions

• 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.

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 [email protected]

Thus, your feedback is welcome at KATO Kanryu<[email protected]>.

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.