# FastPreview Manual

A PicaView replacement.

## About

FastPreview is build to mimic old PicaView by ACDSystems. (mTools sucks :p). It has two components:

- The Viewer - built do easily display images (at different zoom states)
- The Shell Extension - it integrates with the regular Windows Contextual File Menu and displays wherever possible.

## Features

The features are pretty limited. As intended!

### Viewer

- Best Fit-Zoom
- "Free" zooming (10%-wise)
- Auto-Refreshing files upon changes
- Re-sampling display filters
- Lossless JPEG transformation

- Rotations
- Flipping (Mirror-effects)

- Adds the Viewer to the Open with list for supported types, so you can easily open the viewer from there, or even make it the default application.

Keyboard shortcuts
General
`DEL` | Delete File
`ESC` | Quit program
`ALT + F4`
`R` | Forced Reload
`F5`
Navigation / Zoom
`Arrow-Keys` | Scroll
`A` | Switch Best Fit/Free Size
`ENTER`
`+` | Zoom +10 percent points (Free Size)
`-` | Zoom -10 percent points (Free Size)
`# or 0` | 100% (Free Size)
Lossless Transformations
`CTRL + Up` | Lossless Rotate 180° (jpeg)
`CTRL + Down`
`CTRL + Left` | Lossless Rotate Left/Right (jpeg)
`CTRL + Right`
`SHIFT + Up` | Lossless Vertical Flip (jpeg)
`SHIFT``+ Down`
`SHIFT``+ Left` | Lossless Horizontal Flip (jpeg)
`SHIFT``+ Right`
Resampling method selection
```Numbers` | Corresponding method

### Shell Extension

- Configurable Thumbnail dimensions
- Disable the in-menu Thumbnails altogether if you just want the other stuff.
- Adds a page to the File Properties dialog detailing the image meta-data.
- Adds a thumbnail maker component to the system, so that Explorer, etc. will be able to show thumbnails for supported file files, e.g. WebP.

## Requirements

Minimal configuration

- Windows Vista or later - and I indeed mean this! XP is dead — Get over it ;)
- CPU that supports SSE3 instructions (64-bit version only)

## Misc. stuff

- You might have noticed by now that I hate writing manuals...
- Pretty basic application in C/C++ without any frameworks (besides FreeImages and the XMP stuff).
- Compiled using the Intel Compiler 14. If you're on AMD and the performance sucks, complain to Intel, not me ;(
- There was a Version 1 developed in Borland C++Builder 6. Good times :p
- Made in Germany — no, really!
- Free in use, i.e. actually free; I don't monetize this application at all.
- No support-ware!

## Changes

See Changes.txt

## Legal stuff

    The MIT License (MIT)
    Copyright © 2006-2014, Nils Maier

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