Displaying and browsing panoramic pictures properly is not an easy task for most image viewers, especially when it comes to displaying 360º panoramas. WPanorama has been designed specifically to achieve that task in a meaningful and practical way regardless of the panorama dimensions, offering you the possibility of scrolling around the selected JPG or BMP image both horizontally and vertically in the most intuitive way.
This free utility comes with an impressive library of more than 4,300 panoramas for download from the most exotic and beautiful places in the world, though you can always use WPanorama to view and enjoy your own images. The program supports JPG and BMP files only, but it imposes no restrictions on the file dimensions or the width of the panorama. Actually, you can use this viewer to display any supported image, though the program’s true beauty lies in its extensive panorama-related functionality.
Unlike most image viewers, which usually take panoramas and make them fit their own interface or your screen in a desperate attempt to show you the entire picture no matter what, making them too short and small to let you enjoy the details, WPanorama offers you not only that option – useful to have a quick overview of the whole picture – but also the possibility to enjoy the image as an animation that reproduces the effect of watching a real panorama that stretches beyond your sight. Thus, the player comes with controls to scroll the image in either direction, to define the frames per second, the zoom percentage, the duration of the animation, etc. You can also change the image’s dimensions to make the frame as high as your screen, and thus appreciate all details better without losing the big picture.
Note that this is not a program to stitch your digital photos into panoramas, but to view already existing ones in a simple and convenient way. To make up for the lack of a panorama creation tool, this excellent program offers you the option to create screen savers and slide shows using any panoramic image. You can even add your favorite background music to them, and save these panorama movies into AVI video files, or turn your panoramas into a series of BMP screenshots. Finally, the screen saver creator will allow you to turn your preferred panoramas into high-quality and highly-customizable screen savers in no time.
WPanorama is probably the best free viewer that you can use to enjoy your panoramic images and those produced by other professional and amateur photographers and that you can download for free from the developer’s site, as no other image viewer can offer you a higher set of utilities designed exclusively to enjoy this specific image file format.
v12.0 [Nov 5, 2018]
- Modified in order to transfer data to WpaInfo in real time.
- Improved the look by changing the fonts.
- When the slide number is displayed during a mini slide show, the number of slides in the show is now also displayed.
- In the case of the mini slide show, the number of slides and their dimensions are displayed in the "Image info..." panel.
- It is now possible to terminate WPanorama execution with the "WPanorama Shutdown" command line. It can be useful if you want to run WPanorama from another software which would load several panoramas and then stop the viewer.
- Moved the "Set image display dimensions..." from the "Config." menu to the "Display" menu and moved some toolbar buttons in order to put them in the same order as the matching menu items.
- Improved some texts in the help panel, added an item about the command line and another one in the "Questions and answers" section, addressing a slide show issue.
- If the screen saver file (WPanorama.scr) has been deleted or renamed by mistake, the screen saver registry information is now not deleted anymore when the viewer is launched.
- The "Exit and reset parameters" function now clears the screen saver registry information in addition to the viewer information.
- If some files associations have been defined, the "Exit and reset parameters" function doesn't clear them if WPanorama has not been launched in administrator mode. From this version, in this case a message appears, inviting the user to restart the program in administrator mode and execute the fonction again. Note that all the other WPanorama info in the registry is cleared only if the files associations have been cleared.
- If WpaInfo is missing or if its version number is different from the one of the viewer, the menu item and the link in the help giving access to it are not visible anymore.
- It is now possible to set the Internet connection so that WPanorama doesn't connect to wpanorama.com website, in which case the location on the map can be displayed directly from Google Maps. This option should be used only if wpanorama.com is not available because in this case all the other features needing access to the website are disabled and the map is of lower quality.
- When using the functions of the "Screen saver" menu ("Configure screen saver..." and "Preview screen saver"), WPanorama automatically becomes the current screen saver. Thanks to the new "Auto select screen saver" menu item, it is now possible to disable this automatism.
- When the "... memory too fragmented or not enough memory..." error message is displayed when loading a panorama, there is a "Help" button allowing to access a help item which explains how to avoid this problem without any quality loss when displaying the panorama.
- If it is a beta version, "" (X being the beta version number) is now displayed in the title bar of the application and the beta version number is displayed in the "About" and "New version" panels.
- From version 11.2.1, the auto reverse indicators on the position bar in the control panel were not visible when the controls were disabled. This issue has been corrected in this version.
- When the dimension of a panorama in the scrolling direction is smaller than the display dimension in the same direction, the panorama scrolls continuously and the "Auto reverse" menu item is disabled. Because of an error, it was not the case anymore from version 11.2.1. This behavior is now restored.
- From version 11.2.1, in some cases the "Display modes settings..." menu item was enabled when the virtual screen was active, which should not have been the case. This issue has been taken care of in this version.
- In the previous versions, if a panorama had been loaded in the default position (using the original .wpa file or with no .wpa file), if the window was moved and the full screen mode activated, returning to the windowed mode would cause the window to go back to the default position (desktop center). It is not the case anymore.
- Corrected a default window positioning issue which could occur in some very rare cases if a configuration file (.wpa) had been manually modified with an editor.
- In the previous versions, if the Screen Saver Parameters Settings panel had been abnormally terminated, it was not possible to open it with the "Screen saver - Configure screen saver..." menu item. From this version, in this case the user can force it to open and if it was already open the current instance is previously terminated.
- In the help panel, the links to WPanorama website are now enabled or disabled, depending on the Internet connection setting.
- Corrected a error in the help where an item was superimposed over another one if the screen saver file was missing or of an incorrect version.
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