org.libvips.vipsdisp.metainfo.xml

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<component type="desktop-application">
  <id>org.libvips.vipsdisp</id>
  <url type="homepage">https://github.com/libvips/vipsdisp</url>
  <url type="vcs-browser">https://github.com/libvips/vipsdisp</url>
  <branding>
    <color type="primary" scheme_preference="light">#d4b526</color>
    <color type="primary" scheme_preference="dark">#6360d6</color>
  </branding>
  <content_rating type="oars-1.1" />
  
  <name>Vipsdisp</name>
  <summary>Image viewer</summary>
  <developer_name>jcupitt</developer_name>
  
  <metadata_license>MIT</metadata_license>
  <project_license>MIT</project_license>
  
  <recommends>
    <control>pointing</control>
    <control>keyboard</control>
    <control>touch</control>
  </recommends>
  
  <description>
    <p>
Vipsdisp can display huge (many, many gigabyte) images quickly and without
using much memory.

As well as the usual PNG, JPG, TIF, PDF, SVG, WEBP, JP2, JXL, QOI and GIF,
it supports many scientific and technical image formats, including SVS,
MRXS, OpenEXR, FITS, Matlab, NIfTI, Analyze, and PFM. It supports and 
translates HDR metadata between JPG, PNG, AVIF and JXL, though there's no 
HDR display yet.

Vipsdisp supports pixel types from 1 bit mono to 128-bit double precision
complex, you can convert image formats, it support copy-paste and drag-drop,
and it has a range of useful visualisation tools and display modes.

vipsdisp includes a very simple "paintbox" you can use to annotate images.
It can paint on images in all these numeric formats.
    </p>
  </description>

  <launchable type="desktop-id">org.libvips.vipsdisp.desktop</launchable>

  <screenshots>

    <screenshot type="default">
      <image>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jcupitt/vipsdisp/master/screenshots/overview.png</image>
      <caption>Even very large images open quickly</caption>
    </screenshot> 

    <screenshot>
      <image>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jcupitt/vipsdisp/master/screenshots/visualisation.png</image>
      <caption>Visualization tools let you explore technical images</caption>
    </screenshot> 

    <screenshot>
      <image>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jcupitt/vipsdisp/master/screenshots/save-as.png</image>
      <caption>Save as lets you change image formats, and supports features like image pyramids</caption>
    </screenshot>

    <screenshot>
      <image>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jcupitt/vipsdisp/master/screenshots/animation.png</image>
      <caption>Animated images with alpha channels are also supported</caption>
    </screenshot>

    <screenshot>
      <image>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jcupitt/vipsdisp/master/screenshots/paintbox.png</image>
      <caption>A simple paintbox lets you annotate images</caption>
    </screenshot>

    <screenshot>
      <image>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jcupitt/vipsdisp/master/screenshots/hdr.png</image>
      <caption>HDR metadata is loaded and saved (though not yet displayed)</caption>
    </screenshot>

  </screenshots>

  <releases>

    <release version="4.2.0" date="2026-09-17">
      <description>
        <p>
          This release is based on the latest nip4 code for lots of useful
          features, speedups and bugfixes. The big one is the new paintbox
          (see View > Paintbox), a simple tool for annotating images, but
          there's also support for QOI, PNGA, and HDR metadata.
        </p>
      </description>
    </release>

    <release version="4.1.4" date="2026-04-19">
      <description>
        <p>
          Disable file format limit checks, update runtime to 50, improve 
          directory navigation sort order.
        </p>
      </description>
    </release>

    <release version="4.1.3" date="2025-12-17">
      <description>
        <p>
            This version fixes load cancel and adds UltraHDR and camera RAW 
            support.
        </p>
      </description>
    </release>

    <release version="4.1.2" date="2025-08-02">
      <description>
        <p>
          This adds an icon to the Windows build.
        </p>
      </description>
    </release>

    <release version="4.1.1" date="2025-07-31">
      <description>
        <p>
          This adds high DPI support, fixes borders in tiled rendering, and 
          fixes TIFF page pyramid detection. 
        </p>
      </description>
    </release>

    <release version="4.1.0" date="2025-07-26">
      <description>
        <p>
          Updated from nip4 again, so there should be further improvements to 
          image repaint speed and quality. There's a much better focus 
          indicator, better complex image display, and much better handling 
          of next / previous / reload.
        </p>
      </description>
    </release>

    <release version="4.0.0" date="2025-05-31">
      <description>
        <p>
          Redone based on the revised image view widget in nip4. It should be 
          faster, smoother, with better quality output for more image 
          sources and in more image view modes.
        </p>
      </description>
    </release>

    <release version="3.1.0-5" date="2024-11-15">
      <description>
        <p>
          Improve screenshots for flathub metadata.
        </p>
      </description>
    </release>

    <release version="3.1.0-3" date="2024-11-10">
      <description>
        <p>
          Improve flathub metadata.
        </p>
      </description>
    </release>

    <release version="3.1.0-2" date="2024-11-09">
      <description>
        <p>
          Improve flathub metadata.
        </p>
      </description>
    </release>

    <release version="3.1.0-1" date="2024-11-09">
      <description>
        <p>
          Add FITS support to the flathub binary, improve flathub metadata.
        </p>
      </description>
    </release>

    <release version="3.1.0" date="2024-10-28">
      <description>
        <p>
          Handle more image interpretations, add animated JXL support, 
          add "preserve view settings on new image" option, better window menu.
        </p>
      </description>
    </release>

    <release version="3.0.4" date="2024-03-02">
      <description>
        <p>
      Fix animated images on image flip.
        </p>
      </description>
    </release>

    <release version="3.0.3" date="2024-03-02">
      <description>
        <p>
      Next and previous image, copy paste, drag drop, reload, 
      performance and stability improvements.
        </p>
      </description>
    </release>

    <release version="2.6.3" date="2024-01-07">
      <description>
        <p>
          Properties display.
        </p>
      </description>
    </release>

    <release version="2.6.1" date="2023-10-12">
      <description>
        <p>
          Asynchronous infobar updates.
        </p>
      </description>
    </release>

    <release version="2.6.0" date="2023-09-07">
      <description>
        <p>
          Colour management. NN sampling for zoom. Better handling of 
          many-band images. Caching improvements. Better conversion to RGB. 
          More animations.
        </p>
      </description>
    </release>

    <release version="2.5.1" date="2023-07-23">
      <description>
        <p>Fix the progress bar (again).</p>
      </description>
    </release>

    <release version="2.5" date="2023-07-22">
      <description>
        <p>Save-as dialog. Improvements to mouse scrollwheel handling.</p>
      </description>
    </release>

    <release version="2.4" date="2022-08-19">
      <description>
        <p>Faster, smoother pan and zoom. Selectable image background. Better 
        visualisation of HDR images. Better SVG support. Better OME TIFF 
        support.</p>
      </description>
    </release>

    <release version="2.3" date="2021-12-31">
      <description>
        <p>Better initial shrink-to-fit logic. Right-button menu on image. 
        Better focus handling. Better image format detection. Better 
        handling of tile joins. Update to libvips 8.12.</p>
      </description>
    </release>

    <release version="2.2" date="2021-10-20">
      <description>
        <p>This release improves screen repainting further, adds a set of 
        animations for image navigation, and fixes several minor bugs.</p>
      </description>
    </release>

    <release version="2.1" date="2021-10-15">
      <description>
        <p>This release has better desktop integration, and uses 
        gtk4-wayland.</p>
      </description>
    </release>

    <release version="2.0" date="2021-10-14">
      <description>
        <p>This release improves screen repainting and adds a new "pages as 
        bands" display mode, useful for for OME TIFF images.</p>
      </description>
    </release>

    <release version="1.0" date="2021-09-28">
      <description>
        <p>First released version.</p>
      </description>
    </release>

  </releases>

</component>