A lightning-fast cross-platform image viewer written in Rust
This is a very slim image viewer that aims to replicate the most important functions found in commercial software like ACDSee.
- Lightweight
- Cross Platform
- Common image format support
- RAW file support for popular cameras
- Browsing through the current directory with arrow keys
- Pan/Zoom with the mouse
- Basic file operations such as deletion
- Quick way to start the default image editor (planned)
- Any form of image modification
- File format conversion
- Plugin system
To start viewing images:
lightningview.exe <imagefile.ext>
To register as default program for viewing images on older versions of Windows:
lightningview.exe /register
To remove this registration from your windows registry and settings:
lightningview.exe /unregister
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| Left Cursor | Show previous image in directory |
| Right Cursor | Show next image in directory |
| Home | Jump to first image in directory |
| End | Jump to last image in directory |
| R | Sort images randomly |
| N | Sort images by name |
| F | Toggle fullscreen |
| Enter | Toggle between scale to fit and 1:1 display |
| Delete | Delete the currently viewed image file |
| Ctrl+C | Copy current image to clipboard |
| Mouse wheel | Zoom in / out |
| Drag Mouse | Pan image |
General image formats:
- BMP
- GIF
- ICO
- JPEG
- PNG
- PNM
- SVG
- TIFF
- TGA
- WEBP
- XBM
- XPM
RAW formats:
- Minolta MRW
- Sony ARW, SRF and SR2
- Mamiya MEF
- Olympus ORF
- Samsung SRW
- Epson ERF
- Kodak KDC
- Kodak DCS
- Panasonic / Leica RW2
- Fuji RAF
- Kodak DCR
- Adobe DNG
- Pentax PEF
- Canon CRW
- Leaf / Phase One IIQ
- Hasselblad 3FR
- Nikon NRW
- Nikon NEF
- Leaf MOS
- Canon CR2
- ARRI's ARI
- Add a way to edit the currently viewed file
- Display sorting mode on screen when pressing R or N
- OpenCL support for RAW processing
Just run the usual command:
cargo build --release
Under Linux, you may need to install additional dependencies first:
apt install libx11-dev libcairo-dev libxcursor-dev libxfixes-dev libxinerama-dev libxft-dev libpango1.0-dev libstdc++-11-dev
