Quivi is an image viewer (specialized for comic/manga reading) for
Windows which supports many file formats and compressed (zip, rar)
files. It is aimed for fast & easy file browsing with keyboard or
mouse.
Features
- Support of many image formats (JPG, GIF, PNG, PSD, BMP, etc.)
- Zip (& cbz) file support
- Rar (& cbr) file support
- Easy browsing with keyboard and/or mouse
- Favorite folders
- Least-privileged user account suppport (& multi-user)
- High-quality zooming and adjusting to screen
Download
Current version: 0.6
- Installer (you'll probably want this one). To install to all users on Windows Vista, you should right click the installer and select "run as administrator"
- Zip file (if you don't like installers)
- Source code
News / Changelog
Version 0.6 - 2008-06-07
- Fixed: program would crash when opening when a non-accessible directory was in the favorites or history list.
- Fixed: Files with a "~" in the path would not open when opened by file association (e.g., opening images inside 7-zip)
- Added: German translation. Thanks to CracKPod and Sebastian Beschke.
Version 0.5 - 2007-08-26
- Fixed: ZIP/RAR files with uppercase extensions wouldn't open
- Fixed: Braindead file numbering sorting improved (will sort if there are multiple numbers in file name)
- Fixed: Installer asks if instalation is for all users
- Fixed: Custom width for image fit wouldn't be saved
- Added: Installer can associate file extensions with Quivi
- Added: Unicode filename support, still doesn't work for zip/rar files though
- Added: Portuguese translation
Version 0.4 - 2007-03-20
- Added: Support for zip/rar inside zip/rar
- Added: Braindead file numbering is sorted in the right order (e.g., 1.jpg, 2.jpg, ..., 10.jpg would be sorted 1.jpg, 10.jpg, ...)
- Added: Support for password protected zip/rar files
- Fixed: Opening files inside corrupt RAR files would crash Quivi
- Fixed: Fast switching would crash Quivi
Version 0.3 - 2006-10-15
- Fixed: refresh would crash when nothing was selected
- Added: Options dialog with view and keys settings
- Added: Remove from favorites (Ctrl+R)
Version 0.2 - 2006-07-20
- Fixed: files with uppercase extensions would not appear in the list
- Added: scroll wheel support
- Added: "Open Directory" in the folder menu, shortcut to it (Ctrl+O)
- Added: middle click selects/opens next item
- Added: fit width (ctrl+w) and fit height (ctrl+h)
- Added: refresh (F5)
- Added: space bar as an alternative key for End (select/open next item)
- Improved: file list gains focus automatically on mouse hover
- Improved: file list selected item always has the highlight color
- Improved: when opening an image, if the file list is visible, it will be aligned away from it (tries to minimize the portion covered by the file list)
Documentation
Installation
If you downloaded the installer, just execute it and follow the instructions. To run Quivi, open it in the Start > Programs menu.
If you downloaded the zip file, unzip it to a location of your choice. To run Quivi, execute the file Quivi.exe inside the unzipped folder.
Usage
To open an image, select it in the file list. To navigate through the folders, double click a folder to open it, or double click the ".." folder (the first in the list) in order to open the parent folder. Alternatively, you can click on the folder icon to select a folder to open.
With an image opened, you can drag it with the mouse to view it. You can also right click it to hide the file list, right click again to show it back. Right click the image list to show a popup with the last directories browsed (only directories in which you have opened a image will show up) and the favorites directories. To add a directory to the favorites, open it and click on the respective icon in the file list toolbar.
You can also do everything with the keyboard. Press home and end (or space bar) to move the file list selection up and down. If you select an image, it will open. You may press shift to prevent this. Press insert to open a selected folder and delete to open the parent folder. Press Ctrl+Page Up/Down to open the previous/next sibling folder (e.g., assuming these directories exists: C:\something\folder1, C:\something\folder2, C:\something\folder3; if you are inside the folder2 directory and press Ctrl+Page Down, it will open the folder3 directory).
Press the arrows to move the image. Press Page Up/Down to move the image up/down one screen at a time.
You can customize the keys bindings in the options dialog (File > Options), where you can also specify how the images are fit in the screen.
Contact
You can find me at conradoplg (at) gmail (dot) com or in the project forum. Please tell me if you have suggestions, bug reports, feature requests, etc!
Acknowledgements
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- FreeImage library
- SmartWin++ library
- Bárbara for the kiwi drawing =)