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The Image Viewer preferences determine what happens when you view an image. This includes whether the image is viewed in a window or full screen, how the image is centered, and how the image is magnified. To open the Image Viewer preferences, click on the 'Image Viewer' link on the left side of the Preferences window. | -->

Image Viewer Preferences Image Viewer Options
View images full screen - this checkbox determines whether images are viewed full screen mode, or in overlapped windows mode. By default this is checked, and images are displayed one at a time against a solid color background. When unchecked, each image opened is opened into its own window.

View raw data when format unknown - if a file format it not recognized, display the file data as raw hexidecimal data.

Exiting Options
Exit on click (full screen) - in full screen mode, clicking on an image while viewing full screen will close the Image Viewer unless the image has been substantially modified.

Exit on click (windowed) - in windowed mode, clicking on an image while viewing in a window will close the Image Viewer unless the image has been substantially modified.

Confirm exit - if the image has changed since it was opened, you must confirm losing changes to an image. If the image has not been modified, there is no confirmation.

Centering Options
Center images for initial display - allows images to be centered when viewed full screen or in a larger window.

Horizontally - enables horizontal centering when the viewed image is wider than the screen. This option is only used if the above centering option is not enabled.

Vertically - enables vertical centering when the viewed image is taller than the screen. This option is only used if the above centering option is not enabled.

Audio Autoplay Options
Autoplay matching WAV files - automatically play any .WAV file with a matching filename.

Autoplay matching MIDI files - automatically play any .MIDI file with a matching filename.

Advanced Image Viewer Options Auto Scaling Options
Fit standard sized images to screen - images with known standard sizes will be stretched to fit the entire screen. These resolutions are:

320 x 200 320 x 240 320 x 400 360 x 480 | 640 x 200 640 x 350 512 x 480 640 x 400 | 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 960 | 1280 x 1024 1600 x 1200

Always fit to entire screen - resize standard sized images to full screen size, regardless of aspect ratio (may distort some images).

Scale images for initial display - enable resizing prior to display (maintains aspect ratio). This option enables all of the following options in this section.

Magnify if smaller than screen - enlarge images which are smaller than the screen.

Even factors only - enlarge images only by even amounts (2x, 4x, etc).

Disable smooth reading during even magnification - during reading an image which is enlarged by an even magnification factor by default, this option prevents from updating the display for each line of the image being read.

Disable smooth reading during odd magnification - during reading an image which is enlarged by an odd magnification factor by default, this option prevents from updating the display for each line of the image being read.

Reduce if larger than screen - reduce images to current screen size if the image is larger than the screen.

Even factors only - reduce images by even factors only (2x, 4x, etc).

Disable smooth reading during even reduction - during reading an image which is reduced by an even reduction factor by default, this option prevents from updating the display for each line of the image being read.

Disable smooth reading during odd reduction - during reading an image which is reduced by an odd reduction factor by default, this option prevents from updating the display for each line of the image being read.

Max Auto Magnification - maximum amount to automatically magnify images.

Misc. Advanced Image Viewer Options
Disable multitasking - turns off multitasking.

Disable multitasking when palette remapping occurs - turns off multitasking only when image colors are remapped.

Display selection areas slower - selected areas are drawn slower (helpful to resolve some buggy video drivers).

Disable hi-color optimizations - turns off hi-color optimizations (helpful for some buggy video drivers).

Reverse arrow key direction - reverse the effect of arrow key panning.

Never use system colors - avoids using the system colors. This option only has an effect in 256 color display modes.

Use if convenient - uses the system colors only in situations where doing so will result in a better image rendition.

Image Editing Options
Display selection areas slower - selection areas during image editing are drawn differently to work around some buggy video drivers.

Show crop as masked region - turns on / off the masking of cropping areas

Use high quality (oversampled) resizing - enables higher quality resizing.

Instant Zoom Options
Direct Ram access - Avoids Windows GDI by writing directly to screen under Windows 3.x, 95 and 98 to improve speed of Instant Zoom.

Use 320x240 mode rather than 320x200 - this option allows to use the 320x240 'X-Mode' for super VGA's to draw the instant zoom. Many video drivers do not work with this mode. The advantage of this mode is that the pixel aspect ratio is 1:1 rather than 5:4.

Color Replacement Level Options
Black - this is the level (0-255) at which will replace colors in a palettized image in order to preserve true black. It is impossible to change true black or white in a 256 color palette in most operating systems.

White - this is the level (0-255) at which will replace colors in a palettized image in order to preserve true white. It is impossible to change true black or white in a 256 color palette in most operating systems.

Apply - applies the current Black and White replacement levels.

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