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| PMView | |
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| Original author | Peter Nielsen |
| Developer | Peter Nielsen |
| Initial release | 1992; 34 years ago (1992) |
| Stable release | 3.82 / 24 February 2020; 5 years ago (2020-02-24) |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows,OS/2 |
| Size | 7 MB |
| Available in | English, German, French, Swedish; the OS/2 version also Russian |
| Type | Image viewer |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www |
PMView is araster graphics image viewer,converter, and organizer with basicimage editing capabilities. It was originally developed forOS/2 but is also available forMicrosoft Windows.
PMView reads and writes andconverts between more than 40image file formats, shows the images on the screen, single and inslide shows, rotates or mirrors them, changes sizes andcolor depth,crops parts out of the images, and provides global editing of the image, all this individually on the image displayed on the screen, by prerecordedmacros called batch scripts on a range of images, or directly in the File Open Container. And it can, of course, also print the images.
PMView uses its ownfile open dialog, showingthumbnails of all images in a given folder in what PMview calls the "File Open Container", unless the user chooses to see only the filenames. The size of those thumbnails can be changed by the user, and the user can choose if the thumbnails are taken from the operating system, out of the JPEG or PNG files, or dynamically generated by PMView. Still in the "File Open Container", all or selected images can be processed by file copy and move operations, conversion between file formats, application of various image editing tasks inbatch operation macros.[1]
PMView can acquire images by scanning of images using aTWAIN interface to anImage scanner, and by grabbing a part of the computer's screen byscreenshots. And of course, from theclipboard, as a new image and as a new area of an existing image.
Image editing features are global color modifications regardingcolor balance,gamma correction, luminance,negative conversion,solarization,sharpening and softening of edges, and a number of filters includingGaussian blur and user-defined filters.
For images withindexed color (2, 4, 16, or 256 colors), typical forGIF images and found in mostPNG images, PMView can edit thepalette of colors, thus modifying the color of individual spots within the image.
The Windows version runs on all Windows versions from Windows 98 to Windows 8, including native 64 bit versions, the OS/2 version on OS/2 3 "Warp" and newer. The program is written inC++ with some routines inAssembler, making heavy use ofmultithreading, creating and destroying threads as needed, thus enabling PMView to be very fast.
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PMView is short for Presentation Manager Viewer. The name dates back to 1992 and OS/2 version 1.x where the graphical shell for OS/2 was calledPresentation Manager. An early OS/2 version of PMView was on the IBM BBS[2] as "pmview86.zip, 231751, 11-30-93, PM Picture viewer. GIF/BMP/JPG/PCX/TGA". PMView version 1.00 was released in 1997. PMView version 1 was available in English, German, French, and Spanish. The last OS/2-only version of PMView as version 1.05.
PMView 2000 (aka PMView v2.00) was released in early 2000 for both Windows and OS/2. The last version of PMView 2000 is v2.32.
PMView Pro (aka PMView v3.00) was released in 2003.
| PMview supported file formats[3] | ||||
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| Format | Extension | Read | Write | notes |
| OS/2 Bitmap | BMP | Yes | Yes | |
| Windows Bitmap | BMP | Yes | Yes | |
| Windows Cursor | CUR | Yes | Yes | |
| DCA/IntelDCX, or multipage PCX | DCX | Yes | Yes | Digital Communications Associates (DCA) and Intel had designed the DCA/IntelCommunicating Applications Specification (CAS). It defines a standard, high-level programming interface for data communications applications. The DCX format is the standard file format for storing FAX images in CAS. |
| Encapsulated PostScript | EPS | No | Yes | |
| Flexible Image Transport System | FITS | Yes | Yes | image with a BITPIX value of 8, 16, 32, -32, or -64. The value of NAXIS must be two (2) or greater. |
| CCITT Group 3 Facsimile | G3 | Yes | Yes | |
| Graphics Interchange Format | GIF | Yes | Yes | |
| OS/2 Icon | ICO | Yes | Yes | |
| Windows Icon | ICO | Yes | Yes | |
| Electronic Arts IFF | IFF | Yes | Yes | only FORM type IFF files that hold an image, subtypes ILBM: 1..n planes, PBM: 8 bits chunky format, special subtypes HAM: 3..16 planes, DHAM, SHAM, Palette change PCHG |
| Digital Research GEM | IMG | Yes | Yes | |
| JPEG File Interchange Format | JPG | Yes | Yes | |
| OS/2 Boot Logo | LGO | Yes | Yes | |
| MacPaint | MAC | Yes | Yes | |
| Microsoft Paint | MSP | Yes | Yes | |
| Kodak Photo-CD | PCD | Yes | No | |
| ZSoft Paintbrush /PC Paintbrush | PCX | Yes | Yes | |
| PCPaint/Pictor Paint | PIC | Yes | Yes | |
| Bio-Rad Image | PIC | Yes | No | only reads grayscale Bio-Rad PIC files that have eight bits per pixel |
| Autodesk Softimage Picture | PIC | Yes | Yes | |
| Netpbm Portable Bitmap | PBM | Yes | Yes | |
| Netpbm Portable Graymap | PGM | Yes | Yes | |
| Netpbm Portable Pixmap | PPM | Yes | Yes | |
| Netpbm Portable Anymap | PNM | Yes | Yes | |
| Portable Network Graphics | PNG | Yes | Yes | |
| Adobe Photoshop Document | PSD | Yes | Yes | |
| OS/2 Pointer | PTR | Yes | Yes | |
| Sun Raster | RAS | Yes | Yes | |
| CompuserveRLE | RLE | Yes | Yes | |
| Utah RLE | RLE | Yes | Yes | The Utah RLE format was developed around 1983 by Spencer Thomas at the University of Utah Department of Computer Science, as part of the Utah Raster Toolkit |
| Structured Fax File | SFF | Yes | Yes | |
| Seattle FilmWorks | SFW | Yes | No | |
| Silicon Graphics Image | SGI | Yes | Yes | |
| PMView Slideshow File | SHW | Yes | Yes | |
| Truevision Targa | TGA | Yes | Yes | |
| Tagged Image File Format | TIF | Yes | Yes | |
| WAP Bitmap Format | WBMP | Yes | Yes | |
| WordPerfect Graphics | WPG | Yes | Yes | |
| X BitMap | XBM | Yes | Yes | |
| X PixMap | XPM | Yes | Yes | |
| X Window Dump | XWD | Yes | Yes | |
