Posts Tagged ‘JPEG XR’

FuturixImager “Splash” α3

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

And another update – but this one will probably be interesting only for the plug-in developers ;-)

New features:

  • FuturixImager now correctly works with alpha channel in 32-bit images (except some filters in the editor) – for example now you can convert 32 bit PNG to 32 bit BMP and keep the transparency intact
  • Added support for 32 bit JPEG XR photos with transparency
  • Plug-in system changes: removed support for animation, reimplemented support for multi-page images (with quite noticeable speed up)

Download now (1.29 MB)

Please note that this is a very early preview of the next release of FuturixImager – it lacks many features that are expected of a normal image viewer and undoubtedly has a lot of bugs (but that is the point of alpha and beta releases, isn’t it?).
The next update (aka Alpha 4) will be available by the end of the next week (or earlier). I promise, it will be much more interesting :-)

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FuturixImager 5.9.4

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

So… after a half year break I’m happy to announce a new release of FuturixImager – a minor one, but finally with more than just bug-fixes (as all previous release in 2009 were). The download is in the usual place :-)

Imager now supports JPEG XR format (also known as HD Photo or Windows Media Photo) – in July it was approved as ISO standard and will possibly be a successor to JPEG. Or at least that’s what Microsoft wants it to be!

Warning: if you are running Imager on Windows XP SP2 or Windows Server 2003, you will need to install a small system update to make JPEG XR support work (32 bit or 64 bit). You already have it if you have installed .NET Framework 3 (or newer). The update is not needed for Windows Vista or newer (and it is included in XP SP3).

I also started rewriting parts of Imager that can be incompatible with the future Unicode release – so version 5.9.4 is the first one to have some will benefit from some improvements resulting from that. For example I discovered and fixed some performance issues with loading multi-page TIFF file (some of my test images now load twice faster!).

And finally, I have several experimental plug-ins that I plan to publish next week – so come back soon :-P

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