From the tools panel you can select which tools you need from the pull down menu. You can show the tool panel by selecting tools panel from the Tools menu. So the first time you open an image you are left with the impression that this is little more than an image viewer. First of all, the tools panel is not displayed when the app starts up. When started up, ToyViewer is rather modest about it's abilities. During auto-scanning, image files in a folder are arranged in the same order as the Finder (for Mac OS X 10.3 or later). ToyViewer can read more quickly JPEG, JPEG2000, PCD, and Sun Raster images. Utility tool JasPer (for JPEG2000 images) is updated to 1.701.0.
Library libpng (for PNG images) is updated to 1.2.6. Control panel to show specified page of multi-page PDF is added. To save an image, cmd-s displays a sheet on which you can select the format. Three ways of printing are provided: (1) Shrink automatically, (2) Divide into some pages, and (3) Print the central part only. The numbers of the pop-up menu for resizing on each window are arranged in increasing order.
PICT images are dealt with as bitmap images. The interface of "Resize" panel is updated. Simple auto fix operation is added to "Brightness/Monochrome" panel. Simple auto fix operation is also available. You can make the size of newly displayed images small if they are large. Some of the highlights of this version (from the ToyViewer page): The latest version of ToyViewer, version 4.6, was released a couple months ago (with the latest update, 4.62, released ). I would not be at all surprised if this was the first app to take advantage of Apple's new CoreImage (which is being readied for release with 10.4 and includes the developers of TIFFany/PixelNhance on it's development team at Apple). Many of these are a direct result of improvements that Apple has made in the core services of Mac OS X. ToyViewer's developer has been adding features and improvements on this app for years. I still find version 3.x for OPENSTEP/Rhapsody to be one of the most valuable apps I have on my systems (even in the company of much more powerful applications like TIFFany and WetPaint). Slowly over it's life features were added that allowed it to do more than just view images. ToyViewer started out as an image viewer for NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP (click here to see ToyViewer in OPENSTEP). nomacs is a free image viewer for windows, linux, and mac systems, which is licensed. ToyViewer is an image application that includes quite a few nice features usually found in applications costing far more (note that ToyViewer is free, so even GraphicConverter costs far more ). ToyViewer is a lot more than just a simple image viewer for Mac.