XnView Software

found it in the settings. thanks.

i still believe that most "regular users" (typically my mum), would complain such a file does not "work" with xnview while it just works with <<insert name of another crap imaging software>>.
Such a user not know that by clicking that option burred in the xnview ...

for the record, it seems that the app that generates such TGA Files incorrectly sets the alpha value of each pixels to full transparent instead of full opaque

for instance removing the alpha channel with imageMagic does the trick (tested with cygwin)

convert -alpha off does_not_shown_in_xnview ...

mmm links seem broken indeed

i have sent you the image through email (those displayed in the about xnview dialog box)

Hope it will do the trick.

could it be related to alpha channel for tga files ?

Hello,



reproduced with both xnview 2.03 (May 29 2013) and xnviewMP Version 0.72 x64 (Dec 19 2014). the behavior is the same.


There are some TGA files that I can open with Photoshop, Apple Preview and TGA viewer (http://tgaviewer.com/) that when i try to open them in xnview/xnviewMP are simply ...