instriuctions from elsewhere:
Seems Mac users can now use IrfanView
using WineBottler <
http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/ >
This free software is a wrapper for WINE, which unlike other Windows emulators is really simple to set up.
It just works.
- download WineBottler from the above site, and install it.
- Download the latest version of IrfanView
- Start WineBottler and Create a Custom Prefix
- For the Install File, select the IrfanView installation file
you just downloaded
- In the Winetricks section select vc6run
- Click Install
You'll then see a standard Windows installation - follow the prompts.
BTW- at the end there's a pop-up, from which you should select ivew32.exe as the executable to run.
WineBottler then generates an Irfanview program that can by launched like any Mac App.
Caveats
WineBottler is Beta, so ymmv
You must have an Intel Mac - mine is a mid 2009 MacBook Pro running OS X10.6.2
X11 must be installed (it is by default on Snow Leopard)
I think I wouldn't be alone on this list in heaping huge amounts of praise on Irfanview as a gross image editor/manipulator, and it's still one of the very few image editors about that can losslessly edit jpgs - and has heaps more appropriate algorithms for up and downsizing images than most other programs. It is however not a 'pretty' program, it's utilitarian, ugly even, but its simple UI hides
a truly formidable image editor.
k
