DAMN NFO Viewer : Small, Perfect viewer for NFO and DIZ files containing ASCII Art

NFO files are text-based documents that one usually finds as attachment to other files that contain extended information or instructions regarding those files. Though you can actually open them with Notepad (they are text files), having a special viewer for NFO files is highly recommended, as they usually include nicely designed ASCII graphics that Notepad doesn’t render that well.

Damn NFO Viewer is, as you can tell by the name, a program that has been especially designed to view NFO and DIZ files. It’s fast, efficient and simple to use. It’s got a similar interface to that of Notepad, and you can tweak custom colors and fonts. It also supports word wrapping.

Damn NFO Viewer also includes some other interesting features, like shell integration (so that NFO files are automatically opened with Damn NFO Viewer) and copy-on-select, which copies any selected text to the clipboard without having to press any extra keys.

[ Key Features ]

Available in multiple languages

Chinese Simplified, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish. You can choose the languages during installation and switch between them later via Settings dialog.

Hyperlinks / Email addresses autodetection

The viewer automatically detects hyperlinks / email addresses and shows them as clickable shortcuts.

Customizable appearance

You can set text/background colors, colors for hyperlinks and hovered hyperlinks, whether or not you want hyperlinks to be underlined, and choose between 3 built-in fonts, available in different sizes.

Word Wrap

You can switch between word wrap, character wrap and no wrap.

Shell integration

The Viewer can be set as the default application to open files with .nfo and .diz extensions. You get fancy file icons as a bonus.

Smart line breaks handling

Unix style line breaks are supported (that is, you won’t notice any difference). Moreover, the Viewer correctly displays files with doubled/tripled/etc. (e.g. because of improper multiple UnixWindows conversions) line breaks.

Unicode support

Unicode version of the program is installed automatically if the operation system supports it. Unicode version provides better support for multilingual user interface.

Copy-on-Select

When this feature is on, text gets copied to clipboard automatically after you have finished selecting it (released shift key or left mouse button). After the selected text has been copied, the selected area will flash shortly and the text will get deselected (so for those who thought it’s a bug: it is not).

Direct Scroll mode

In this mode there’s no caret so you can’t select text with keyboard, but you can navigate through file contents more easily (like in your browser). Turning it off makes it more like viewing a file in a text editor. and more… Including Most Recently Viewed nfos list (accessible via menu or Alt+R), Drag&Drop support, … well, check for yourself.

[ Helpful Tips ]

• Pressing Alt+R or Ctrl+R invokes Most Recently Viewed list menu.
• Pressing ESC or Alt+X quits the program.
• If you’re not happy about 500Kb file size limit, you can remove it by setting “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DAMN\DAMN NFO Viewer\MaxFileSizeKb” to “0″
• If you want to use other fonts for viewing (installed on your system), set “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DAMN\DAMN NFO Viewer\BuiltinFontsOnly” to “0″ (this may increase program’s startup time on Asian/Arabic versions of Windows XP)
• There’s no help file. Instead, please use the Settings dialog’s tooltips. They contain detailed descriptions of corresponding settings.
• To uninstall the program, go to its directory and run UnInstall.exe.

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