PNG - Ideas to Integrated Circuits

PNG-supporting Image Viewers
support; freeware. (Be sure to grab both viewpng.gz and pnggzip.gz . This app is no longer
under development.)
● ViewTEK [Thomas Krehbiel] (Amiga) - any version via a PNG DataType (see the miscellaneous
apps page for several); read-only; freeware; 425K. (Click here if link breaks.)
● Visage [Magnus Holmgren] (Amiga) - version 39.12 and later (natively), or any earlier version
via a PNG DataType (see the miscellaneous apps page for several); read-only; full gamma
support; full alpha support; progressive display of interlacing (four-pass replicating method)
● Visere [Digital Multi-Media Design] (Win32) - all versions; read/write; freeware.
● VisualPng [Willem van Schaik] (Win32) - all versions; read-only; requires libpng and zlib;
freeware with source. (This is a very simple viewer designed to compile as an MSVC project in
conjunction with the new DLL support in libpng 1.0.7. See also the related FishEye above.)
● vPNG [Viktar Pakhomau/Victor Pakhomov] (Amiga 68k) - all versions; read-only; for OS 3.0
and later; broken interlaced support; freeware for non-commercial use; 11k. (This is very closely
related to vPNG.datatype on the toolkits page. Click here if link breaks.)
● VuePrint [Ed Hamrick] (Win32) - version 7.6 and later via the Microsoft Graphics Import
Filters; read-only; shareware.
● wb0 [Karel "Clock" Kulhavy] (Linux/SVGA) - version of 8 November 1999 and later; read-only;
requires libpng and zlib; freeware (GPL) with source.
● WebGraphics Optimizer [Plenio Software Solutions] (Win32) - version 2.0(?) and later; read/
write; no gamma support; no control over compression level or filtering (output was 10% bigger
than input on one test image); broken 2-bit support; commercial.
● WhimPro [MoGrow] (Win32) - all versions; read/write; full alpha support; gamma support;
shareware (freeware as an image viewer only). (This is a viewer/converter with a number of
editing features, as well, including overlaying text.)
● Windows Picture and Fax Viewer [Microsoft] (Windows XP) - all versions; read-only? uses
libpng and zlib; commercial.
● WinJPEG [PixVision Software] (Windows 3.x) - version 3.00 and later; read/write? shareware.
● wxyzv [David Flater] (Unix/X) - all versions; read-only; freeware (GPL) with C++ source.
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