Vliv Alternatives

Vliv

Vliv is a Windows application that allows interactive viewing of gigantic TIFF images.
Vliv is known to have successfully displayed a 121600x97280 image.

- Requirements

Microsoft Windows 2000/XP.
64 Megabytes of main memory.
Fast hard disk is recommended.
Fast processor is recommended.

- Features

Nice standard Windows interface.
Pure C win32 application (does not require additional libraries like MFC).
Scrolling through images by scrollbars or mouse.
Multipage TIFF images can be treated as one multi-resolution image, allowing interactive nagivation in gigantic images (zoom/unzoom).
Immediate display on loading.
Handles LZW, CCITT, JPEG, ZIP and Packbits compression.
Printing capability.
Export current view to BMP file or clipboard.
Loads images way too large for IrfanView, ACDSee and others viewers.
Memory usage is very limited for all images (only visible parts needs to be loaded in memory).
Leverages the advanced capabilities of the TIFF format such as tiling and pyramidal images.
Conversion programs from non-tiled format to tiled are available on request (works on memory-limited machines).