Zoomer Image Viewer -- Information

Zoomer v5.01

There are a lot of image viewers. The Zoomer is just one more image viewing application for Windows. It supports the most popular graphic formats such as bmp, ico, cur, ani, jpg, gif, png, tiff, psd, tga, pcx, raw, rgb and several rare formats like flic or ppm. Additionally it can extract graphic resources from executables of PE and NE format (so it can handle ICL icon library files too since it is just a dll of NE format).

Great News:
Zoomer Lite now available, totally freeware!

And, in version 5, printing and collage making added.

The main features of the Zoomer are:

Fast start (and fast close). Among many other viewers, the Zoomer is the unique one, allowing you to use it as fast image viewing application starting from the explorer (or other file manager application) via <Enter> key or mouse double click (certainly, when the file extension is associated with the Zoomer). Not because other similar viewers can not handle images by the such way, but because only the Zoomer can save your time starting fast and showing the clicked image immediately, but not several seconds later. When you decide to finish viewing image(s) with the Zoomer, you can close it fast and not only with Alt+F4 or pressing [x] button in the top right corner of the window. For people preferring the keyboard, always <Escape> works, and for mouse lovers - simultaneous click with left and right mouse buttons.

Handling extremely large images (jpg, png, tiff) with a suitable speed. The Zoomer can open and view even very large pictures and maintain it sufficiently fast: scroll, rescale, rotate, crop, etc. The size of unpacked image can be large then 4 Gigabytes, this is not matter, even on 32 bit platform. (E.g., a jpeg with 24 bits per pixel with a size 30000x30000 pixels when unpacked occupies more then 3 Gigabytes of memory). For jpeg and png it is just necessary to have enough free disk space, and tiff images are unpacked from its location without repacking the entire image (so it is not require additional space to view it, just some memory to view currently displayed portion of the image).

Easy gamma correction, image rotation and other control of image view. E.g. slide show can be started with <Ctrl>+<arrow> key and it is not necessary to open special dialog to adjust slide show speed: time between two last arrow keys is used to setup initial slide show speed (and it can be corrected with mouse wheel while sliding). Another example: to change gamma correction it is possible to press keyboard keys '<' and '>' (or correspondent toolbar buttons) and get the result immediately, without opening special dialogue and making settings from where each time.

Among other features, the Zoomer suggests you Aspect ratio correction (especially for unusual display modes with non square pixels, distorting images) and the Original Smooth Zoom in algorithm providing better looking of small images after zooming it in several times.

The Zoomer provides its own method of image files protection. You can set a password for images in the current folder (or including subfolders, if such option is selected). These images are encrypted using strong protection algorithm (AES), and since that time it can be opened only with the Zoomer, and only after entering a correct password. To simplify remembering passwords, you can type also prompt which is stored in the encrypted files and is showing for you while typing a password. Certainly, encrypted files can be decrypted with the Zoomer later (but only in case when the correct password is entered).

The Zoomer gets you additional options setting an image as a wallpaper, allows to add its screen saver to a system (which allows to set several images sets used at different time eventually and can also control other screen savers to be launched).

In most cases the Zoomer provides you with a progress bar, displayed during time-consuming operations and having [Cancel] button, allowing to stop the operation if this seems to be necessary.

Zoomer allows creating very large collages from other images, and print it on a printer changing a lot of parameters including paper size, orientation, gamma-correction, color scheme (colored, grayscale, black and white) etc.

The Zoomer has a lot of other features like Zoom screen, Auto-save screenshots, Move-to-folders (with a single right mouse click), etc. To get know about it you can look to the online documentation. Starting from version 4.01, the Zoomer became a shareware. But a freeware "Lite" version with some restrictions also available. Also, read Frequently Asked Questions, which can answer you on some questions. Look at the Screen shots page also. And, read my "Author's sentences"

about the Zoomer. Hope, in future it will be filled up with more pieces of text, and will become a my Blog voted to Zoomer's developement.

Distribution

The Zoomer is distributed as a setup executable, which installs the application on the computer. But it can be just copied as usual file and used from the removable device like USB-flash or even from floppy disk. (Anyway, to run it registered, you must have a license for each computer and for each user account, where it is used, otherwise it is run as unregistered).
Help file in CHM format is distributed in a separate archive. You can either download it, or use Online Documentation, this is for your choice.

Downloads

Registration

Please note: still I decided to process requests manually a while, you should wait about a day (rarely - for 2 days) after sending registration request by e-mail (while I get you e-mail, generate license key and send it to you). Please be patient.

Purchasing 1 license you have rights to request up to 5 license keys for a year - for different combinations of computers and user accounts (license key is not limited by date, the restriction just means that you can not request new license key too often). Please, apply additional requests only in case when you really have reinstalled Operating System or upgraded machine configuration so your old license key stopped working (though it is still legal to use the Zoomer on up to 5 workstations simultaneously, if you don't care about a reserve for 4 license keys for some kind of force-majors, but do not complain in such case if you'll have to buy an additional license in such case if something wrong occur).

The registration never expires, you need not to pay for the Zoomer again when the new version is released. But it works only on a single machine and under single account, so if you change machine or upgrade hardware or reinstall Operating System you just send me new request, and if you are registered user, I generate a key for you very soon.

But to prevent possible deceptions from unfair people, you are restricted to 5 such requests for a year and this is for your decision if you prefer to install the program on two or three machines (under different accounts) or to save your 5 additional requests for renewal registration under the same account during a year, if something occur.

Requirements

Minimal OS required: Windows 95 and NT4 with IE 4 installed. All Windows 9x/Me and NT4, 2K, XP, 2003 Server and Vista are supported.

Minimal hardware configuration: Pentium-I 100MHz 32Mb RAM. Desired: Pentium-IV at least 400MHz 256Mb and above (the more the better).

Info for resellers and catalog publishers: here a PAD file in XML format and here a PAD file in html format can be found.