This is a maintenance release, focusing on solving the known bugs and issues – thus improving overall program stability. The main fixes address problems with PNG and ICO transparency, RAW + HDR plugin package, possibility to specify both dimensions in Batch resize. The improvements include the new standard conversion from RGBF(A) high dynamic range formats which [...]
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Pierre-e Gougelet, the author of XnView, created an addon to use RIOT in it’s well known viewer. Now XnView users have RIOT integrated into their favorite viewer to be able to easily optimize pictures using RIOT. XnView is the third well known application using RIOT, after IrfanView and GIMP. The XnView addon is freely available [...]
With 0.4.0 in beta for more than a month, it is the time now to release the first stable version of this branch – 0.4.1 As you would guess this version fixes some issues of the beta version. Now 0.4.1 is considered a production release. The most important fixes are made for the external PNG [...]
With the version 7.0.0.125 of the virus signatures RIOT 0.4 is detected as trojan (Trojan.Win32.Swisyn.aeca). As this program does not contain malware and was tested with other antivirus engines, I contacted the Kaspersky Team to find out more. Kirill Kruglov, Virus Analyst at Kaspersky Lab confirmed me that it was a false positive and replied [...]
I made some performance comparition tests using three programs: RIOT, IrfanView and XNView. The versions used are the latest available: RIOT 0.4 beta IrfanView 4.25 XNView 1.97.2 Here are the results: Test #1 Batch mode: add all supported images from drive D including sub-folders (~41,600 images) to the list 1. RIOT: 5 seconds at cold [...]
The long expected new version of RIOT – 0.4 is finally available. This version contains very interesting new features and improvements: (* NEW *) Batch Optimizer Optimize mulitiple images at once with great simplicity (* NEW *) Basic image adjustments Adjust brightness, contrast, gamma, invert colors along with the optimization process (* NEW *) Open [...]
RIOT became quite popular in its young existence with thousands of downloads monthly. I noticed a spectacular adoption growth since the first release. I must say I was very impressed that this program has now more than occasional users – it has fans That’s a good reason for me to continue working at this program. [...]
I was very impressed and honored to see that a well known french IT magazine – Clubic – included RIOT among the best 50 freeware applications of the year 2009.
My surprise was even bigger to find RIOT was the first in the category “Les meilleurs outils graphiques gratuits de l’année 2009″ (The best free graphic utilities of year 2009).
Changelog: v.0.3.5 – 27.10.2009 – bugfix: Save image fails in some cases. It occurs only when the image is opened by command line or drag & drop and “Show dialog on Save” is disabled (default) – the original image is not updated (overwritten). The image is saved in fact in the wrong folder (current folder). [...]
Riot for GIMP was released. It can be downloaded from the GIMP Plugin Registry http://registry.gimp.org/node/20778 This plug-in calls RIOT for the selected area/layer. ******* The RIOT DLL package is required. ********* It still has incomplete support for all color types, but it works good for most of them. I am waiting for user feedback to [...]