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Love Qimgv. My literal only complaint is that it has to rasterize SVGs. Other than that, it's the best image viewer I've ever used. Preserves color profiles!

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> it has to rasterize SVGs

...as opposed to streaming the vectors to an XY display[1]? :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_monitor

It renders them to a bitmap once, which is what you view, then. Even when zooming in, you only get the initial bitmap scaled.

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