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Sharp IMG Viewer 2008 is a resource explorer which lets to open images, extract from various sources, save images in other formats, view image properties including metadata, perform operations on selected images.
Sharp IMG Viewer 2008 is developed for the .NET Framework 2.0 or later. .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 is highly recommended to install the program. Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86) is needed to view PDF files if you are using the .NET Framework 4.0
The most important supported features are:
Loading and saving of images in a variety of formats
Extracting images from assemblies, archives (ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, LZIP, TAR, Z, PPMd, 7z, LZMA, XZ, RAR, ARJ, XAR, CPIO, Zstandard, Brotli, Snappy, LZ4, LZ5, Lizard, LZH, LZO, LZFSE, UNIX dump, Microsoft Cabinet, Encrypted APPX and WIM formats), disk image files (ISO, FAT, NTFS, EXT, SquashFS, Btrfs, XFS), virtual disk files (VMware VMDK, Oracle VirtualBox VDI, Microsoft VHD and VHDX, XenServer Virtual Appliance XVA, Apple DMG), Windows executables, resources, Shockwave Flash (SWF), video, RPM packages, compound and compiled help files
Transferring image data from a scanner or camera
Sending image to E-mail and Skype recipients
Easy access to the image metadata
Converting bitmap's bit depths from one to another
Accessing frames in an image when there are multiple
Basic manipulation of images, such as rotation, flipping and resampling
Alpha compositing and alpha blending applying layers to draw lines, shapes (rectangles, ellipses, rounded rectangles, arcs, pies, chords, polylines, polygons), curves (cardinal and Bézier splines), text strings and bar codes ( ITF, Code 39, Code 93, Code 128, EAN-8, EAN-13, UPC-A, UPC-E, Codabar, Plessey, MSI, Dutch Post TNT KIX, Royal Mail CBC 4-state, Royal Mail Mailmark 4-state, USPS Intelligent Mail, Australia Post, Japan Post, DataMatrix, PDF417, Aztec, DotCode, MaxiCode, Han Xin, QR Code ).
Barcode detection on images
Import and export to Adobe PDF, multipage TIFF, multiframe GIF, Scalable Vector Graphics and video files
Drag and drop support
Clipboard copy and paste operations support
Recommended hardware:
Intel® Pentium® processor, or an AMD Opteron, AMD Athlon64 or AMD Athlon XP processor 400 MHz (800 MHz+ recommended)
128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended)
45 MB hard disk space
800 x 600 256 colors display (1024 x 768 High Color - 16-bit recommended)
mouse or pointing device
Supported operating systems:
Microsoft® Windows® 98
Microsoft® Windows® Millennium Edition
Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Professional
Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server
Microsoft® Windows® XP™
Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003
Microsoft® Windows® Vista
Microsoft® Windows® 7
Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008
Microsoft® Windows® 8
Microsoft® Windows® Server 2012
Microsoft® Windows® 8.1
Microsoft® Windows® Server 2016
Microsoft® Windows® 10
Microsoft® Windows® Server 2019
Microsoft® Windows® 11
Microsoft® Windows® Server 2022
Supported image file formats
Formats supported when writing are marked in boldBMP - Windows or OS/2 Bitmap format (*.bmp;*.dib;*.rle)
ICO - Windows Icon format (*.ico)
CUR - Windows Cursor format (*.cur)
GIF - Graphics Interchange format (*.gif)
JPEG - JPEG Group format (*.jpg;*.jpeg;*.jpe;*.jfif)
PNG - Portable Network Graphics format (*.png)
TIF - Tagged Image File format (*.tif;*.tiff)
WMF - Windows Metafile format (*.wmf)
EMF - Extended Metafile format (*.emf)
PBM - Portable Bitmap format (*.pbm)
PGM - Portable Graymap format (*.pgm)
PPM - Portable Pixelmap format (*.ppm)
PFM - Portable Floatmap format (*.pfm)
TARGA - Targa format (*.tga;*.targa)
HDR - High Dynamic Range format (*.hdr)
WBMP - Wireless bitmap format (*.wbmp;*.wbm)
XPM - X11 Pixmap format (*.xpm)
XBM - X11 Bitmap format (*.xbm)
CUT - Dr. Halo format (*.cut)
DDS - DirectDraw Surface format (*.dds)
FAXG3 - Raw Fax format CCITT G3 (*.g3)
IFF - Amiga IFF format (*.iff;*.lbm)
JNG - JPEG Network Graphics format (*.jng)
KOALA - Commodore 64 Koala format (*.koa)
MNG - Multiple Network Graphics format (*.mng)
PCD - Kodak PhotoCD format (*.pcd)
PCX - Zsoft Paintbrush PCX bitmap format (*.pcx)
PSD - Adobe Photoshop format (*.psd)
RAS - Sun Rasterfile format (*.ras)
SGI - Silicon Graphics SGI format (*.sgi)
PICT - Macintosh PICT format (*.pct;*.pict;*.pic)
EXR - ILM OpenEXR format (*.exr)
JP2 - JPEG-2000 File format (*.jp2;*.jpc)
J2K - JPEG-2000 codestream format (*.j2k;*.j2c)
JPEG-XR - JPEG-XR image format (*.jxr;*.wdp;*.hdp)
WEBP - Google WebP image format (*.webp)
ANI - Animated Cursor format (*.ani)
SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics format (*.svg)
PDF - Portable Document format (*.pdf)
RAW - RAW camera image formats (many extensions)
Supported video file formats
MPEG video files (*.mpeg;*.mpg;*.m1v;*.m2v;*.mp2;*.mpa;*.mpe;*.ts;*.ifo;*.vob)
Windows Media files (*.asf;*.wm;*.wmv;*.wmd)
Audio-Video Interleaved files (*.avi)
Adobe filmstrip files (*.flm)
Shockwave Flash files (*.swf)
Flash video files (*.flv)
Ogg files (*.ogg;*.ogv)
QuickTime files (*.mov;*.qt)
Mobile video files (*.3gp2;*.3gpp;*.3gp;*.3g2)
MP4 format files (*.mp4)
Matroska files (*.mkv)
Motion Pixels files (*.mvi)
NUT Open Container format files (*.nut)
DV video format files (*.dv)
Psygnosis YOP files (*.yop)
Beam Software SIFF files (*.siff)
CD Graphics format files (*.cdg)
IndigoVision 8000 video server files (*.iv8)
Nullsoft Streaming Video files (*.nsv)
NuppelVideo files (*.nuv)
RealMedia files (*.rm;*.rmvb)
Smacker video files (*.smk)
AviSynth files (*.avs)
Material eXchange format (*.mfx)
GXF format (*.gxf)
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