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16-592: Digital Darkroom was the first Macintosh program to incorporate a plug-in architecture. Silicon Beach and Ed Bomke are credited with having coined the term "plug-in". Another innovation of Digital Darkroom was the Magic Wand tool, which also appeared later in Photoshop . When Silicon Beach Software was acquired by Aldus Corporation , Digital Darkroom continued to be published by the Aldus Consumer Division, but

32-722: A wide variety of image formats. In a series of image quality tests conducted in 2004, compared with commercial image compressors and Adobe Photoshop 7, Irfanview 3.91 produced "consistently better images than the Adobe Photoshop JPEG encoder at the same data rate", and its JPEG2000 compression quality "closely followed" the best codec, JasPer ." According to IrfanView's official website, since 2003, IrfanView has been downloaded over 1 million times per month. One independent review in 2017 described Irfanview, as "the Swiss Army Knife of image viewers". Irfan Škiljan graduated from

48-436: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Plug-in (computing) In computing , a plug-in (or plugin , add-in , addin , add-on , or addon ) is a software component that adds a specific feature to an existing computer program . When a program supports plug-ins, it enables customization. A theme or skin is a preset package containing additional or changed graphical appearance details, achieved by

64-404: Is an external viewer program—like IrfanView or Adobe Reader —that displays content retrieved using a web browser . Unlike a plugin whose full code would be included in the browser's address space , a helper application is a standalone application. Web browsers choose an appropriate helper application based on a file's Media type as indicated by the filename extension . In the mid-1970s,

80-720: Is free for non-commercial use; commercial use requires paid registration. It is noted for its small size, speed, ease of use, and ability to handle a wide variety of graphic file formats. It was first released in 1996. IrfanView is named after its creator, Irfan Škiljan, from Jajce , Bosnia and Herzegovina , living in Vienna . The current version of IrfanView, 4.70, works under all versions of Windows from Windows XP to Windows 11 . Version 4.44 and older versions were compatible with Windows 95 / 98 / Me and can also be run in Linux under Wine and in macOS using WineBottler . IrfanView

96-1424: Is specifically optimized for fast image display and loading times. It supports viewing and saving of numerous file types including image formats such as BMP , GIF , JPEG , JP2 & JPM (JPEG2000), PNG (includes the optimizer OptiPNG ; APNG can be read), TIFF , raw photo formats from digital cameras, ECW (Enhanced Compressed Wavelet), EMF (Enhanced Windows Metafile), FSH (EA Sports format), ICO (Windows icon), PCX (Zsoft Paintbrush), PBM (Portable BitMap), PDF (Portable Document Format), PGM (Portable GrayMap), PPM (Portable PixelMap), TGA (Truevision Targa), WebP , FLIF (Free Lossless Image Format) and viewing of media files such as Flash , Ogg , Vorbis , MPEG , MP3 , MIDI , and text files . Image editing includes crop, resize, and rotate. Images can be adjusted by modifying their brightness , contrast , tint , and gamma level manually or automatically, and by converting them between file formats. Many of these changes can be applied to multiple images in one operation using batch processing . A plugin allows IrfanView to support lossless JPG operations : horizontal or vertical flip, rotation by 90° increments, and cropping . IrfanView uses plugins to handle several additional images, video, and sound formats and to add optional functionality such as filter processing or other program features. With its diverse set of format plugins,

112-531: The Apple Macintosh , both released in 1987. In 1988, Silicon Beach Software included plug-in capability in Digital Darkroom and SuperPaint . IrfanView IrfanView ( / ˈ ɪər f æ n v j uː / ) is an image viewer , editor, organiser and converter program for Microsoft Windows . It can also play video and audio files, and has some image creation and painting capabilities. IrfanView

128-652: The EDT text editor ran on the Unisys VS/9 operating system for the UNIVAC Series 90 mainframe computer . It allowed a program to be run from the editor which can access the in-memory edit buffer. The plug-in executable could call the editor to inspect and change the text. The University of Waterloo Fortran compiler used this to allow interactive compilation of Fortran programs. Early personal computer software with plug-in capability included HyperCard and QuarkXPress on

144-479: The Vienna University of Technology . In a 2006 interview, then 32-year-old Škiljan said that he was able to more or less live off the software, generating income with the sale of licenses for commercial users and of special versions for different customers. The author claims that the software is pronounced as "EarfanView"; it is named after himself and is an Islamic Arabic name, Irfan . According to Škiljan,

160-473: The host application. Programmers typically implement plug-ins as shared libraries , which get dynamically loaded at run time. HyperCard supported a similar facility, but more commonly included the plug-in code in the HyperCard documents (called stacks ) themselves. Thus the HyperCard stack became a self-contained application in its own right, distributable as a single entity that end-users could run without

176-446: The most common and the most powerful one. Mozilla applications come with integrated add-on managers that, similar to package managers , install, update and manage extensions. The term, "plug-in", however, strictly refers to NPAPI -based web content renderers. Mozilla deprecated plug-ins for its products. But UXP -based applications, like web browsers Pale Moon and Basilisk , keep supporting (NPAPI) plug-ins. A helper application

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192-413: The need for additional installation-steps. Programs may also implement plug-ins by loading a directory of simple script files written in a scripting language like Python or Lua . In Mozilla Foundation definitions, the words "add-on", " extension " and "plug-in" are not synonyms. "Add-on" can refer to anything that extends the functions of a Mozilla application. Extensions comprise a subtype, albeit

208-439: The plug-in can use, including a way for plug-ins to register themselves with the host application and a protocol for the exchange of data with plug-ins. Plug-ins depend on the services provided by the host application and do not usually work by themselves. Conversely, the host application operates independently of the plug-ins, making it possible for end-users to add and update plug-ins dynamically without needing to make changes to

224-640: The program has been recommended for viewing obscure image formats, or corrupted files, which commercial photo editing software cannot read. Prior to version 4.41 installer versions of IrfanView supported a number of browser toolbars . Version 4.40 optionally installed the Amazon 1Button App (formerly the Amazon Browser bar). Irfanview has been positively reviewed as "really good" for easily and rapidly viewing and manipulating images, with its editing and drawing tools. Other writers have focused on its ability to open

240-417: The use of a graphical user interface (GUI) that can be applied to specific software and websites to suit the purpose, topic, or tastes of different users to customize the look and feel of a piece of computer software or an operating system front-end GUI (and window managers ). Applications may support plug-ins to: Types of applications and why they use plug-ins: The host application provides services which

256-473: Was never updated to include color. The trademark "Digital Darkroom" was acquired by MicroFrontier in 1997 and used for a completely new image-editing program that does work with color. The software was acquired by Digimage Arts in 2002 and is sold in versions for Windows and Mac operating systems. This graphics software –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Classic Mac OS and/or macOS software –related article

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