Wine Equivalent For Mac
I've both used and donated to Irfan Skiljan's excellent Swiss Army Knife utility. Many a time it's come to the rescue with its ability to import a wide variety of plugins, like GhostScript for arcane pdfs or Adobe-capable 8bfs for digital enhancement or a one-stop reliable place for screen captures and the capacity to edit them. Heck, I even used it to view.mov videos. Like you I was more than curious as to how to get it to function in OS X. To this day he (Skiljan) laments that it's just not copacetic with Cupertino.
How to use Wine on a Mac February 23, 2014 dypele Leave a comment Wine is a fantastic tool for Mac users and there is a number of ways to get it working but possibly the best way is also the most complex. Wine is an open-source implementation of the Win32 API, not a hardware emulator. Similarly, Macha is looking for a Linux implementation of the Mac OS X APIs, not hardware emulation for Apple hardware.
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Some time ago I'd installed CrossOver for Mac through a 50% off promo. Basically it's a Wine derivative. Even though it (Crossover) at the time allowed a substantial number of Windows programs to be used on a Mac (a lot of games, but I'm not a gamer), I couldn't locate the most current version of Irfanview in its directory. As a result I felt it not worth the time to sledgehammer something that needed a fine, #2 Philips head screwdriver. I might add that as a sucker for image editing software I've over the years installed Acorn, Pixelmator, GraphicConverter, Photoshop Elements and a number of MacPhun and JixiPix apps, none of which *on their own* (IMHO) could match the versatility and dexterity of Irfanview. I found myself going from app to app, depending on the effect I wished to produce. Which is not to say that they're duds in what they claim to accomplish, it's just the way it is.
If Irfanview is still a must-have app for you, and if your OS of choice is OS X, it's either BootCamp, Crossover, Parallels Desktop or an equivalent you'll need. Oh yeah; you'll also have to have a legit copy of Windows or a license code unless you take the Crossover route (»). One of the best features that IrfanView has is that you can get into any folder of images and then use the arrow buttons to click forward/back inside that folder to view the images quickly. You can start on any image and go forward/backwards one image at a time in the folder in one click. I've not been able to find equivalent functionality in Preview. Preview's 'slideshow' forces you to pre-select the images you want to see and when you're not sure which of 200 images are the ones you want to look at rapidly, it's a waste of time.
Preview's Go to Next/Previous Item buttons don't work the same way as IrfanView's. So I still use IrfanView in Win7 under Parallels on my Mac.but it's a bit of a bother to have Windows running.I really could use the extra resources that takes on the Mac side. Said by: One of the best features that IrfanView has is that you can get into any folder of images and then use the arrow buttons to click forward/back inside that folder to view the images quickly. A feature as simple as that is what I've been looking for in OS X for 5 years! Quick Look does okay but is stupid when it comes to navigating.
It's locked to your Finder window's layout and that is, if your Finder window shows 4, 8, 10 files in a horizontal row, using the left or right arrow keys is all it can deal with. When it reaches the end of the row, it's done. No concept of 'wrap' to the next line??? Said by: One of the best features that IrfanView has is that you can get into any folder of images and then use the arrow buttons to click forward/back inside that folder to view the images quickly. You can start on any image and go forward/backwards one image at a time in the folder in one click. I've not been able to find equivalent functionality in Preview.As Hall mentioned that feature, called Quick Look, is built into OS X. In Finder click on a picture then press the Space bar and it will preview the picture.
Use the arrow keys to navigate back and forward though the pictures. If you want to edit a picture then just click on the Open in Preview button. I find it best to use List view when navigating between the pictures. This also works for documents other than pictures. I see that, but then you are constantly switching back and forth between Finder (to see what you *might* want to work with, and Preview to actually see in full size and have access to some of the tools that IrfanView has built-in. If you take a bunch of photos where exposures are bracketed, or the view is from a slightly different angle, Quick Look is too small to let your see the details / subtle differences easily.