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PMView
Original author(s)Peter Nielsen
Developer(s)Peter Nielsen
Initial release1992;32 years ago(1992)
Stable release
3.82 / 24 February 2020;4 years ago(2020-02-24)
Written inC++
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows,OS/2
Size7MB
Available inEnglish, German, French, Swedish; the OS/2 version also Russian
TypeImage viewer
LicenseProprietary
Websitewww.pmview

PMViewis araster graphics image viewer,converter,and organizer with basicimage editingcapabilities. It was originally developed forOS/2but is also available forMicrosoft Windows.

What it is and what it does

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PMView reads and writes andconvertsbetween more than 40image file formats,shows the images on the screen, single and inslide shows,rotates or mirrors them, changes sizes andcolor depth,cropsparts out of the images, and provides global editing of the image, all this individually on the image displayed on the screen, by prerecordedmacroscalled 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,showingthumbnailsof 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 operationmacros.[1]

PMView can acquire images by scanning of images using aTWAINinterface 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,negativeconversion,solarization,sharpeningand softening of edges, and a number of filters includingGaussian blurand user-defined filters.

For images withindexed color(2, 4, 16, or 256 colors), typical forGIFimages and found in mostPNGimages, 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.

History

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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.

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References

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  1. ^ The web page linked shows the File Open Container with all kinds of context menus: "PMView File Open window".pmview.2014.Retrieved28 December2014.
  2. ^"COMPUTERCRAFT's Link to IBM's FTP Mirror of the PCC BBS - OS/2 Graphics and Music".
  3. ^ A list of all supported file formats with detailed explanations: "PMView File Format Overview".pmview.2003.Retrieved28 December2014.
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