What program will view RAW Format picture? Freeware?

"lbbss" <labicff.RemoveThis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> tx

Irfanview. Great deal. Does lots of stuff.
 >> Stay informed about: What program will view RAW Format picture? Freeware? 

John Bean <waterfoot.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 2 Feb 2008 20:08:30 GMT, ray <ray.TakeThisOut@zianet.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:16:40 -0800, lbbss wrote:
>>
>>> tx
>>
>>ufraw - not "freeware", but Open Source.
>
>Pedantry. "Freeware" is generally used to mean any software
>legally available without cost to the end user. When someone
>asks about "freeware" they are not generally concerned about
>the niceties of the licence so long as it costs them nothing
>to install and use.
>
>I couldn't care less whether the "freeware" I use is "Open
>Source" so long as it does what it says on the tin.

Open Source is significantly distinct from "Freeware".

Freeware -- The cost to use it is zero, but you do *not*
have a license to use the source code.

Open Source -- The cost to use it may or may not be zero,
but you have a license to use, modify
and/or redistribute the source code.

It may or may not make any difference to *you*, but the
distinction is vastly important to many, if not to most,
users.

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Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd.TakeThisOut@apaflo.com
 >> Stay informed about: What program will view RAW Format picture? Freeware? 

On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 09:21:08 -0600, Neil Ellwood
<cral.elllwood2.DeleteThis@bt.openworld.com> wrote:

>cdraw

?

Why is dyslexia such a hard word to spell? ;-;

>Just a few.

Indeed. My most used viewer is the excellent Faststone, but
there are lots of good ones out there.

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John Bean
 >> Stay informed about: What program will view RAW Format picture? Freeware? 

On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:31:38 +0000, John Bean <waterfoot.DeleteThis@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Indeed. My most used viewer is the excellent Faststone, but
>there are lots of good ones out there.

FastStone is also my viewer of choice. It views, renumbers, converts
format, and has other features. Free.


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Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
 >> Stay informed about: What program will view RAW Format picture? Freeware? 

tony cooper wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:31:38 +0000, John Bean <waterfoot.DeleteThis@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Indeed. My most used viewer is the excellent Faststone, but
>> there are lots of good ones out there.
>
> FastStone is also my viewer of choice. It views, renumbers, converts
> format, and has other features. Free.

Another free one is Raw Therapee

http://www.rawtherapee.com/

David
 >> Stay informed about: What program will view RAW Format picture? Freeware? 

On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:16:40 -0800, lbbss wrote:

> tx

ufraw - not "freeware", but Open Source.
 >> Stay informed about: What program will view RAW Format picture? Freeware? 

On 2 Feb 2008 20:08:30 GMT, ray <ray.RemoveThis@zianet.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:16:40 -0800, lbbss wrote:
>
>> tx
>
>ufraw - not "freeware", but Open Source.

Pedantry. "Freeware" is generally used to mean any software
legally available without cost to the end user. When someone
asks about "freeware" they are not generally concerned about
the niceties of the licence so long as it costs them nothing
to install and use.

I couldn't care less whether the "freeware" I use is "Open
Source" so long as it does what it says on the tin.

--
John Bean
 >> Stay informed about: What program will view RAW Format picture? Freeware? 

On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:48:46 -0900, floyd DeleteThis @apaflo.com (Floyd
L. Davidson) wrote:

>John Bean <waterfoot DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote:
>>On 2 Feb 2008 20:08:30 GMT, ray <ray DeleteThis @zianet.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:16:40 -0800, lbbss wrote:
>>>
>>>> tx
>>>
>>>ufraw - not "freeware", but Open Source.
>>
>>Pedantry. "Freeware" is generally used to mean any software
>>legally available without cost to the end user. When someone
>>asks about "freeware" they are not generally concerned about
>>the niceties of the licence so long as it costs them nothing
>>to install and use.
>>
>>I couldn't care less whether the "freeware" I use is "Open
>>Source" so long as it does what it says on the tin.
>
>Open Source is significantly distinct from "Freeware".
>
>Freeware -- The cost to use it is zero, but you do *not*
> have a license to use the source code.

Read what I wrote - I don't give a stuff about the source
code licensing, I'm interested in the final product not the
nuts and bolts to make it.

>Open Source -- The cost to use it may or may not be zero,
> but you have a license to use, modify
> and/or redistribute the source code.

Lecture me no lectures about licences I neither need nor
desire. The OP here asked about free (to him) software, he
didn't mention "Open Source" - only you did that.

>It may or may not make any difference to *you*

[snip]

Nor to the OP I imagine. Go mount your "Open Source" soapbox
somewhere else please, it's not relevant to the OP's
question in this case.


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John Bean
 >> Stay informed about: What program will view RAW Format picture? Freeware? 

On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:28:03 +0000, John Bean
<waterfoot.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:
>The OP here asked about free (to him) software, he
>didn't mention "Open Source" - only you did that.

No you didn't, someone else did. But my point remains - Open
Source isn't germaine to the OP's question but "free to use"
certainly is.

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John Bean
 >> Stay informed about: What program will view RAW Format picture? Freeware?