Imagine - Image/Animation Viewer for Windows

1.  Introduction

a.  What is Imagine?

b.  What’s new?

Imagine is Copyright (c) 2003-2004 by Chun Sejin.


What’s new?

Version 0.9.0.0 beta 5 'Dec 27 2004

- Shell extension context menu available.

  (You can view the image briefly with context menu in Explorer.)

- Toolbar data is now in Imagine.ini

- Shortcut data is now in Imagine.ini

Version 0.9.0.0 beta 4 'Dec 10 2004

- Thumbnail window was decorated.

- The main routine file was changed from Imagine.wlx to Imagine.DLL

- Some file operations added. (Copy/Move)

- Resize available (Primitive yet)

- Print available (Primitive yet)

- Help available (Primitive yet)

Version 0.9.0.0 beta 3 'Aug 28 2004

- Thumbnail window available.

- 'Supported file formats' menu added.

- Packer Plugin for Total Commander now can read Imagine.ini.

- Some window menu added.

Version 0.9.0.0 beta 2 'Aug 14 2004

- Packer Plugin for Total Commander available. (Imagine.wcx)

- Some translation added.

- MRUD available.

- Some window option added.

  (Center window, Fit to image)

Version 0.9.0.0 beta 1 'Aug 06 2004

- Stand-alone executable can be executed without arguments.

- File extension registering dialog was reformed. (Now in Preference dialog)

- Save, Close, Clear clipboard command added.

- File format added:

  PIC;CEL (Autodesk Animator PIC)

Version 0.8.4.0 'Jul 26 2004

- Toolbar added. (customizable)

- Some delete bug fixed.

- Palette import added.

Version 0.8.4.0 beta 3 'Jul 14 2004

- Stand-alone executable available.

- Transparency set/clear available.

- File format added:

  CDR;CDT;PAT;CMX (CorelDRAW Drawing)

- PNG interlaced saving added.

- TGA 32bit alpha value supported.

- Some JPEG error fixed.

Version 0.8.4.0 beta 2 'Mar 18 2004

- Keyboard shortcuts configure available.

- Some bugs of Multiple TIFF were fixed.

- More texts can be translated.

- Comments in language file(menu,text) available.

- Multiple Icon/Cursor saving added.

- Show zoom factor when image is fitted.

- 16bit color depth conversion available.

Version 0.8.4.0 beta 1 'Feb 26 2004

- 'Display while loading' option added.

- Multilingual support.

- Image information enhancement.

- File list sorting support.

- 'Delete(Direct/Recycle Bin)' menu added.

- 'Reopen' menu added.

- 'Paste' menu added.

- Fixed: 'Preference' shortcut was changed to 'Alt+Enter' again.

- Support saving Progressive JPEG.

Version 0.8.0.0 'Feb 07 2004

- Effect filter supported (Requires plugin)

- 'Full screen' menu added.

- Multiple page image(TIF,ICO,DCX) supported.

  (Browse the pages with Shift+PgUp/PgDown(Home/End).)

- EXIF(JPEG) information available.

- Information dialog was reformed.

- Most common TIFF compression method added.

  (RAW,Packbits,CCITT,LZW,ZIP,JPEG,ThunderScan)

- TIFF saving added.

- 'Rotate free' menu added.

- 'Installed plugins' menu added.

- 'Ask to overwrite file' option added.

- 'Don't notify end/begin of the directory' option added.

- Zoom out smaller than original size of the image.

- Zoom in/Zoom out with mouse wheel supported. (with Shift key)

- Refresh speed enhancement when image is zoomed in.

- Horizontal scroll with mouse wheel supported. (with Ctrl key)

- Some palette file type added.

- 'Palette export' menu added.

- File format added:

  DCX (Zsoft Multi-Page Paintbrush)

  WBMP;WAP;WBM (Wireless Bitmap)

- Fixed: Some PCX error fixed.

- Fixed: Some RLE error fixed.

Version 0.7.3.0 'Jan 01 2004

- An image has alpha value (ex. PNG 32bit) now showed correctly

- Drag&Drop supported.

- Zoom in/Zoom out supported.

- 'Open' menu added.

- 'Fit only big images' menu re-added.

- Fixed: 32bit BMP that has color mask isn't loaded.

- Fixed: Properties dialog is not opened in Windows NT

Version 0.7.0.1 'Nov 24 2003

- Windows XP runtime error fixed.

Version 0.7.0.0 'Nov 22 2003

- Sorry for the late update. (I worked hard with my image library. :( )

- Now with TC 6.0, BMP,ICO files can be viewed with Imagine plugin.

- File format added:

  JBG;JBIG (JBIG Bi-level Image)

  ICO (Windows Icon)

  CUR (Windows Cursor)

  ANI (Windows Animated Cursor)

  CLP (Windows Clipboard)

  RLE (Utah RLE)

- Flic saving added.

- Animation file saving is now 'Save as'.

  (Some export menus(except for AVI) were deleted.)

- Plugin system added.

  (If you don't need the file type, you can delete the plugin file.

  Plugin files are loaded at the first time when Imagine is loaded,

  So, don't care about the speed when you use plugins :) )

- 'Center Image' option added.

- Menu was reformed.

- Mouse left button to get pixel color information.

- Mouse right button to scroll.

- Next/Previous image (Space/Backspace).

- Ini file location was changed. (Same directory as Imagine.wlx)

- Fixed: Keyboard shortcuts doesn't work in Win9x.

Version 0.6.0.0 'Sep 06 2003

- File format added:

  RAS (Sun Raster Image)

  SGI;RGB;BW (Silicon Graphics Image)

- 'Change color depth' added.

- Auto color conversion when saving file.

  (Now you can save JPG to GIF with auto color conversion.)

- 'Set as wallpaper' added.

- Edit palette keyboard access added. (Use arrow keys and press 'E' or 'Alt+E')

- 'Preferences' added. (Background color, Transparent background color/pattern)

- Small scroll bug fixed.

Version 0.5.0.0 'Aug 10 2003

- Status bar added.

- Save option available.

- Show progress(in save file/modify image) available.

- Some shortcuts added.

Version 0.4.9.0 'Aug 06 2003

- PNG transparency added.

- Portable Bitmap/Graymap/Pixelmap file format added.

Version 0.4.8.0 'Aug 02 2003

- PNG saving added.

Version 0.4.7.0 'Aug 01 2003

- 'Show transparency' added.

- JPEG2000 Wavelet file format added.

- Kodak PhotoCD file format added.

Version 0.4.1.1 'Jul 28 2003

- Some PNGs error fixed.

Version 0.4.1.0 'Jul 28 2003

- 'Edit palette' added.

Version 0.4.0.0 'Jul 24 2003

- 'Fit only big images' option added.

- 'Vertical/Horizontal flip' added.

- 'Grayscale, Negative' added.

- 'Swap colors' added.

- 'Rotate' added.

Version 0.3.7.0 'Jul 22 2003

- Some GIFs error fixed.

- Scroll error fixed.

Version 0.3.0.0 'Jul 16 2003

- First release.


What is Imagine?

Imagine is a image viewer for Windows (TM). Imagine also provides Total Commander lister plugin.

Features

- Views Image/Animation files with the fastest speed.

  (NO depends on their extensions)

- Numerous image formats supported.

- Shows informations of image/animation files.

- Shows EXIF(JPEG) informations.

- Shows transparency.

  (Imagine also shows the alpha channel in 32bit image.)

- Extracts a frame(or whole frame) from Animation file.

- Exports Animation file to Animated GIF file/AVI/Flic/Pro Motion Animation.

- Manipulates image

  (Flip,Grayscale,Negative,Change color depth,Swap colors,Rotate,Resize

   Effect filter,Edit palette,Transparency set)

- Tiny & Fast & Pure & Neat executable.

- Fully customizable. (Keyboard shortcut, Toolbar)

- Plugin add-on available.

- Multilingual support

- NO depends on any OLE method or any other external viewer.

- NO creates or uses any registry value.

  (except for only when setting desktop wallpaper)

- Shell extension support.

  (Context menu in Windows Explorer is available.)