pxlViewer is a slim, in appearance, image viewer.
Supporting JPG, JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF; more to come.
I was getting a little tired of the default options in linux; so I made this thing.
For Windows users-
If you download the repo, copy dist/pxlViewer to an appropriate location.
Then delete the extract directory and assign file associations / test by 'Open With . . .'
pxlViewer is self contained within dist/pxlViewer
Left click drag to move image around
Wheel up/down or right click drag to zoom
Hitting Spacebar or Return will reset the zoom; fitting the image to your window.
R to refresh the current image
H to home the image, sets 100% zoom.
Escape will close pxlViewer
Left Key loads Previous image in directory.
Right Key loads Next image in directory.
F toggles full screen.
Alt key toggles menuBar; displays 'File' 'Image Info' and 'Help.
File shows exit.
Image Info displays the file name, resolution, and file size of the image.
Help displays keyboard shortcuts.
Use the -debug or -d flag to enter debug mode. Allows for inspecting the WebView's page; the developer tools window.
Upgrading pip helped the other modules install correctly for me
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
pip install Pillow
sudo apt-get install python-qt4
I've linked it to an alias for ease of use; in .bash_aliases or .bashrc you can add-
alias v='python /your/path/to/pxlViewer.py '
It can be ran locally from any folder--
With no specified file to load, the first image found is displayed-
v
Or with a specific file given-
v imageFile.jpg
What worked for me on Windows 10 -
Open a Command Prompt, search for cmd in your windows menu
Find the pip.exe in your python folder, copy that path, add cd, then paste into cmd; it should look similar to this-
cd C:\Python27\Scripts
Running the command should move you to the folder-
C:\Python27\Scripts>
This helped me for installing some packs correctly in general, update the pip exes; run this-
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
Pillow Image Library (PIL) is required to run pxlViewer, install by running-
pip install Pillow
You'll need to download SIP and PyQt4;
But as of 4/1/2018, there was no exe built for the newest version of PyQt4.12
Sooo, either (1) try an older bundle version, 4.11.4 This worked fine for me -
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyqt/files/PyQt4/PyQt-4.11.4/
Or (2) manually set up Sip and PyQt through their source-
https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/sip/download
https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download
To test that pxlViewer works, find directory with images by browse to and copy the path into the command prompt, or navigate there in prompt-
cd C:\path\to\image\directory
You can view the first image in the directory with-
python C:\your\path\to\pxlViewer.py
Or view a specific image with-
python C:\your\path\to\pxlViewer.py imageName.ext
To install pyinstaller, from your python/Scripts folder again-
cd C:\Python27\Scripts
Run -
pip install pyinstaller
Then browse to your pxlViewer download/extract folder and double click the buildExe.bat file.
This may take a couple minutes to build.
After this, you can right click an image, go to Open With..., and navegate to-
C:\path\to\pxlViewer\dist\pxlViewer\pxlViewer.exe
If all is well, your image should open with pxlViewer!