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• vipsdisp

Projektgeschichte

The public repository was created in June 2015, but the changelog presents the modern app history around its GTK4 generation: version 1.0 is labeled the first GTK4 release, version 2.0 started in September 2021 with a new rendering system, smooth zoom, pages-as-bands mode, and better pyramid detection, and later 2.x releases added GTK4 Wayland, animations, color management, save options, and better OME-TIFF handling.

The 3.x and 4.x series refined the viewer from a specialist demo into a practical desktop utility: next/previous image browsing, copy/paste and drag/drop, properties display, animated JXL, high-DPI support, Windows icon and binaries, UltraHDR/camera RAW support noted in release metadata, and further repaint improvements copied from nip4's image widget.

Wie es verwendet wird

vipsdisp is used to inspect huge or technical images interactively: pathology slides, OpenEXR/FITS/Matlab/NIfTI/Analyze data, OME-TIFF-like multi-page images, high dynamic range images, camera RAW, and conventional PNG/JPEG/WebP/JXL/TIFF/PDF/SVG inputs. It computes only the visible tiles needed for display, keeps sparse texture pyramids on the GPU, and offers false color, log-scale, scale/offset, metadata, save-as, multi-page, animated, and pages-as-bands display modes.

The README notes that the same image widget is used by nip4, the libvips image-processing spreadsheet. That makes vipsdisp both a standalone viewer and a reusable display component in the libvips GUI family.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package users, vipsdisp fills the gap between a command-line image library and heavyweight scientific viewers. It is the quick sanity-check tool for files that are too large, too tiled, too many-paged, or too numerically exotic for ordinary desktop viewers.

Zeitleiste

• 2015-06: The vipsdisp repository was created.
• 2021-09: The 2.0 development line began with a new rendering system and smooth zoom.
• 2023-09: Version 2.6 added color management and caching/display improvements.
• 2024-03: Version 3.0.4 era added next/previous image, copy/paste, drag/drop, reload, and multi-file loading.
• 2025-05: Version 4.0.0 was redone around a revised nip4 image-view widget.
• 2026-04: Version 4.1.4 was released, with libvips 8.18-related file limit handling and navigation improvements.

Related projects

• vipsdisp is directly related to libvips and nip4; it sits beside command-line tools such as vips and vipsthumbnail as the GUI viewer for large and technical images.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/libvips/vipsdisp
• https://github.com/libvips/vipsdisp
• https://github.com/libvips/vipsdisp/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
• https://github.com/libvips/vipsdisp/blob/master/org.libvips.vipsdisp.metainfo.xml