nomacs - image viewer

[I am Baas]

nomacs is a free image viewer for windows and linux systems. nomacs is small, fast and able to handle the most common image formats. Features:

■supports the most common image formats (see table below)
■displays exif information (Screenshot)
■fast thumbnail preview (Screenshot)
■drag and drop images
■save screenshots
■synchronize multiple instances (Screenshot) (Howto)
■synchronized zooming
■synchronized panning
■synchronized next/previous file
■overlay of two or more instances (with changing opacity)
■arrange synchronized instances
■synchronize multiple instances in the LAN (Howto)
■synchronized zooming
■synchronized panning
■images can be sent over LAN connection
■change transparency of windows (Screenshot)
■slideshow (with adjustable background color)
■hide menubar and toolbar
■display overview while zooming (Screenshot)
■rotate images

http://www.nomacs.org/



Download @ http://sourceforge.net/projects/nomacs/ ... p/download

Settings: Registry @
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Nomacs\Image Lounge\AppSettings
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Nomacs\Image Lounge\DisplaySettings
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Nomacs\Image Lounge\GlobalSettings
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Nomacs\Image Lounge\MetaDataSettings
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Nomacs\Image Lounge\SlideShowSettings
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Nomacs\Image Lounge\SynchronizeSettings
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Nomacs\Image Lounge

Also writes Trolltech junk to the registry.

[I am Baas]

nomacs is a free image viewer for windows, linux, and mac systems, which is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3. nomacs is small, fast and able to handle the most common image formats including RAW images. Additionally it is possible to synchronize multiple viewers. A synchronization of viewers running on the same computer or via LAN is possible.

http://www.nomacs.org/



Dl @ http://www.nomacs.org/download/ (x86 | x64 available)

Settings: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Nomacs\Image Lounge
+ Trolltech keys

[joby_toss]

Tested nomacs v1.6.4-x64 portable. Still not portable (confusing, isn't it? ).
But found a nice video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pydMeEbnzA8

@moderator: please, merge with this topic http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... 20&t=20459

[webfork]

@moderator: please, merge

Thanks ... all set.

[I am Baas]

Tested Nomacs 2.4.2 x64

Saves settings.nfo in application folder but I also got the following entries in the registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Photoshop
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ShellCompatibility\Applications\photoshop.exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Picasa
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\IrfanView\Shell
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Trolltech\OrganizationDefaults\Qt
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Trolltech\OrganizationDefaults\Qt Factory Cache 4.8
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Trolltech\OrganizationDefaults\Qt Plugin Cache 4.8.false
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Trolltech\OrganizationDefaults

[I am Baas]

nomacs is at version 3.2

http://nomacs.org/nomacs-3-2/



ghacks review Nomacs image viewer with synchronization

http://www.ghacks.net/2016/04/29/nomacs ... ewer-sync/

[smaragdus]

I checked my registry and found these nomacs keys:

nomacs 3.2.0 - 2016-05-07 - 004.png (7.26 KiB) Viewed 53241 times

Then I contacted one of the developers (Markus Diem) blaming him that the portable version wasn't portable:

The so called nomacs portable is not portable at all- it writes to Windows registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\nomacs)...

He was kind to respond immediately:

This is not true. I just checked it on a clean virtual machine. All settings are written to the settings.nfo which is contained in the nomacs portable folder. If you delete this file - nomacs will fall back to the registry.

Obviously the registry records were from previous versions of nomacs I once used. So I deleted them and ran nomacs-3.2.0.zip afresh and now I can confirm that nomacs version 3.2.0 is portable- settings saved in settings.nfo inside program folder. I am Baas, please connfirm.

[I am Baas]

Tested nomacs v3.2.0 build 174 (64-bit): Portable (not stealth)

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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Photoshop
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ShellCompatibility\Applications\photoshop.exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Picasa
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\IrfanView\Shell
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\QtProject\OrganizationDefaults\FileDialog
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\QtProject\OrganizationDefaults\Qt
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\QtProject\OrganizationDefaults

[smaragdus]

@I am Baas
Thanks for the test. All these lines were written by nomacs? Or just the last 3 ones?

@moderators
Please move this thread to the Portable Freeware Submission sub-forum.

[I am Baas]

All these lines were written by nomacs? Or just the last 3 ones?

All by nomacs; I tested on a clean machine in a sandboxed environment and I have never used IrfanView, Picasa, or Photoshop before.

[Andrew Lee]

@moderators
Please move this thread to the Portable Freeware Submission sub-forum.

Done.

[smaragdus]

nomacs at version 3.4.0, changes:

– Batch UI reworked
– Batch Profiles added
– Cropping to metadata
– RGB to Gray improved
– Crash on delete fixed
– Slow thumbnail rendering fixed
– Start-up time improved
– RAW/PSD orientation fixed

@Andrew Lee
Thanks.

[Specular]

All these lines were written by nomacs? Or just the last 3 ones?

All by nomacs; I tested on a clean machine in a sandboxed environment and I have never used IrfanView, Picasa, or Photoshop before.

Hmm. I just tested v3.4.0 in Sandboxie with RegFromApp and no Registry entries were created apart from the standard MuiCache ones. I wonder if this has to do with the testing environment.

[I am Baas]

All these lines were written by nomacs? Or just the last 3 ones?

All by nomacs; I tested on a clean machine in a sandboxed environment and I have never used IrfanView, Picasa, or Photoshop before.

Hmm. I just tested v3.4.0 in Sandboxie with RegFromApp and no Registry entries were created apart from the standard MuiCache ones. I wonder if this has to do with the testing environment.

Same here, clean machine, Win 7.64, sandboxed, and no admin privileges. I still get the registry entries. Can you launch nomacs 3.4 open an image and then exit. Launch regedit and manually verify you don't have those keys? Thanks.

[Specular]

Same here, clean machine, Win 7.64, sandboxed, and no admin privileges. I still get the registry entries. Can you launch nomacs 3.4 open an image and then exit. Launch regedit and manually verify you don't have those keys? Thanks.

Just to note, I use Photoshop and apparently have QtProject for something (I checked all the entries before launch) so the following registry entries existed previously on my system:

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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Photoshop
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ShellCompatibility\Applications\photoshop.exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\QtProject\OrganizationDefaults\Qt
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\QtProject\OrganizationDefaults

So for my non-Sandboxed test I was looking for these entries:

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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Picasa
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\IrfanView\Shell
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\QtProject\OrganizationDefaults\FileDialog

The first two did appear following an unsandboxed launch of nomacs. Was FileDialog meant to be a 'sub-directory' (whatever it's called) in the registry or a value? As I have a 'filedialog' value there already in the \Qt\ tree and looking at the binary value it links to an old directory I used once for a mosaic generator program.

My guess is the program is creating something similar to 'open with' values (Irfanview, Picasa, Photoshop). Who knows, but I can confirm these keys are created.