Viewer for NFO files

Osmo Salomaa

Last update: Dec 29, 2022

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Overview

NFO Viewer

NFO Viewer is a simple viewer for NFO files, which are "ASCII" art in the CP437 codepage. The advantages of using NFO Viewer instead of a text editor are preset font and encoding settings, automatic window size and clickable hyperlinks.

Installing

Linux

Packages

NFO Viewer is packaged for most of the popular distros, so easiest is to install via your distro's package management. If not packaged for your distro or you need a newer version than packaged, read below on how to install from Flatpak or the source code.

Flatpak

Stable releases are available via Flathub.

The development version can be installed by running command make install under the flatpak directory. You need make, flatpak-builder and gettext to build the Flatpak.

Source

NFO Viewer requires Python ≥ 3.2, PyGObject ≥ 3.0.0 and GTK ≥ 3.12. You also need a font that supports the kinds of glyphs commonly used in NFO files: Cascadia Code is a good choice and used by NFO Viewer by default, if available. During installation you will also need gettext. On Debian/Ubuntu you can install these with the following command.

sudo apt install fonts-cascadia-code \
                 gettext \
                 gir1.2-gtk-3.0 \
                 python3 \
                 python3-gi

Then, to install NFO Viewer, run command

sudo python3 setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local

Windows

Windows installers are built irregularly, see releases.

Comments

Can't run it anymore (ModuleNotFoundError).
Starting today, I can't run it anymore. I'm getting this error message:

>nfoview Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/nfoview", line 16, in <module> import nfoview ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'nfoview' >

It happened today, after Python upgrade (through repositories). I'm at PCLinux.

>python3 -V Python 3.10.6 >

NFOView latest version from here (NOT the repo version).
opened by Achaean 5
Extended ASCII (ISO/IEC 8859-1 / CP819) support

Thanks for an awesome .NFO/.DIZ viewer! I use it everyday and reminisce about old times. Do you plan to add extended ASCII as a possible enhancement someday?

opened by ThurahT 3
Homepage link in "About" box, is broken (Windows).

V1.23 installed on Win 10 x64 v.10.0.15063. Workaround: Right click -> "Copy Link Address" -> paste in browser.

Sidequestion: 32-bit apps aren't so stable on 64 Windows. Is it possible to compile it as native 64 app? How?

opened by Achaean 3
appstream 'mimetypes' tag is deprecated

The toplevel mimetypes tag (used in io.otsaloma.nfoview.appdata.xml) is deprecated in favour of mediatype tags in a provides block to indicate that your software provides a media handler for the given types.

See docs at freedesktop.org.

opened by jcfp 1
Sort .po input file list

Sort .po input file list so that nfoview.desktop and nfoview.appdata.xml builds in a reproducible way in spite of indeterministic filesystem readdir order and http://bugs.python.org/issue30461

See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this is good.

I thought, I had tested that #13 fixed all of it, but there was still variation in nfoview.appdata.xml now that went away with this patch.

opened by bmwiedemann 1
Sort input file list

so that .desktop and appdata.xml files build in a reproducible way in spite of indeterministic filesystem readdir order and http://bugs.python.org/issue30461

See https://reproducible-builds.org/ for why this is good.

opened by bmwiedemann 1
update appstream metadata install location

because apparently, "appdata" is a legacy location.

See section 2.1.2 at https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html and https://lintian.debian.org/tags/appstream-metadata-in-legacy-location.html

opened by jcfp 1
Package for ubuntu

I would really like to see this as a package as i can select easily open with... for .nfo's and set it as the default for those. Because right now is very difficult to open .nfo's in samba shares for me

opened by Ntemis 1

Migrate screen size calculations

nfoview/window.py:274: DeprecationWarning: Gdk.Screen.width is deprecated
  size[0] = min(size[0], int(0.8 * Gdk.Screen.width()))
nfoview/window.py:275: DeprecationWarning: Gdk.Screen.height is deprecated
  size[1] = min(size[1], int(0.8 * Gdk.Screen.height()))

opened by otsaloma 1

Flickering mouse cursor on Windows

Mouse cursor doesn't change to a hand when hovering over a link, but it flickers like it changes for a very brief moment. Clicking links seems to work fine though.

With GTK+ 3.18 from pygi-aio.

opened by otsaloma 1
Gtk.Widget.override_* are deprecated
Since GTK+ 3.16.

Gtk.Widget.override_font

Gtk.Widget.override_color

Gtk.Widget.override_background_color

Gtk.StyleContext.get_background_color

Use CSS instead.
opened by otsaloma 1

Releases(1.29)

1.29(Oct 3, 2022)
Fix font name quoting in Gtk CSS

Use make for installation instead of plain setup.py, see the README file for the new installation commands, and Makefile for the details

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1.28.1(Oct 6, 2021)
Add Chinese (China) translation

Add German (Switzerland) translation

Add Italian translation

Update existing translations

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1.28(Apr 28, 2020)
Switch default font from Terminus to Cascadia Code as Terminus is most commonly a bitmap font, which no longer work with Pango 1.44: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/issues/386

Always fall back on the platform default monospace font

Add Dutch translation (Heimen Stoffels)

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1.27.1(Apr 10, 2020)
Fix CSS error with the abnormal weight of the Unscii font

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1.27(Aug 9, 2019)
New app icon, as full-color and symbolic SVGs (#16)

Use the reverse domain name "io.otsaloma.nfoview" for desktop file, appdata file and icons

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1.26.1(Jun 8, 2019)
Add Greek translation

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1.26(Dec 16, 2018)
Use native file dialogs when available

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1.25(Dec 12, 2018)
Add support for building a Flatpak

Add 64x64 and 128x128 icons

Update AppData XML file

Fix build reproducibility (#15)

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1.24(Apr 22, 2018)
Fix possibly missing icon in GNOME shell on Wayland

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1.23(Nov 6, 2017)
Install AppData XML file under /usr/share/metainfo (#12)

Drop build dependency on intltool (use gettext instead, #3)

Add Donate button to about dialog

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1.22(Mar 17, 2017)
Fix window height calculation if line-spacing non-zero

Fix color scheme names not translated (#10)

Add Brazilian Portuguese translation (Ricardo Borges Jr.)

Add Romanian translation (Nicolae Crefelean)

Remove severely incomplete Swiss German, Italian and Simplified Chinese translations

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nfoview-1.22-win32.exe(11.84 MB)
1.21(Oct 29, 2016)
Fix size of custom font with GTK+ 3.22 (#7)

Update AppData file

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1.20(Jul 23, 2016)
Only show monospace fonts in the font chooser dialog

Fix windows not closing when having multiple windows open

Add support for releasing installers for Windows

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nfoview-1.20-win32.exe(11.84 MB)
1.19(May 12, 2016)
Fix mouse cursor and links with GTK+ 3.20

Use CSS for setting custom font and colors, fix selection color with GTK+ 3.20 (#2, #4)

Fix default window size calculations to work better with GTK+ 3.20

Don't use deprecated Gdk.Cursor.new

Update preferences dialog GtkBuilder file with Glade 3.20

Remove shadow from around the text view

Add top and bottom margins to the text view

Move web pages to http://otsaloma.io/nfoview/

Move bugs from GNOME Bugzilla to GitHub

Update AppData file

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1.18(Jan 23, 2016)
Work around a drag destination Gtk-WARNING (#721708)

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1.17(Oct 11, 2015)
Improve URL detection (#667102)

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1.16(May 7, 2015)
Use a header bar and a menu button in application windows

Use a header bar for the preferences dialog

Migrate from deprecated Gtk.UIManager, Gtk.Action etc. to Gtk.Application, Gio.Action etc.

New application icon

Use markdown for documentation files (README etc.)

Bump GTK+ depedency to version 3.12

Add European Portuguese translation (Pedro Albuquerque)

Update Polish translation (Piotr Drąg)

Move web pages from gna.org to github.io

Move releases from gna.org to github.com

Use Transifex to manage translations

Close nfoview-list mailing list, use gitter.im instead to reach developers

Close nfoview-announcements mailing list, use RSS instead to be informed about new releases (see also e.g. sibbell.com)

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1.15.1(Apr 6, 2015)
Fix detection of theme colors of the default color scheme

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1.15(Apr 6, 2015)
Fix preferences dialog padding with GTK+ 3.14

Fix selection background color with GTK+ 3.14

Remove use of deprecated stock items, GtkAlignment and gi.types.Boxed.__init__

Update French translation

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1.14(Apr 6, 2015)
Fix default response buttons for dialogs

Make AppData file translatable

Add GTK+ to list of dependencies in the README file (GTK+ has always been a dependency, its explicit mention was just forgotten when migrating from PyGTK to PyGObject)

Bump GTK+ dependency to 3.2 or greater

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1.13.1(Apr 6, 2015)
Possibly fix default colors with some GTK+ themes

Add an AppData XML file

http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/

Update French translation

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1.13(Apr 6, 2015)
Add action to export document as an image file (#622078)

Apply GNOME Goal: Add keywords to application desktop files

https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/DesktopFileKeywords

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1.12.1(Apr 6, 2015)
Fix error setting colors in the preferences dialog TypeError: get_rgba() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given)

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1.12(Apr 6, 2015)
Adapt to new GTK+ theme color names, thus fixing the default color scheme that follows the GTK+ theme

Fix window size calculations

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1.11(Apr 6, 2015)
Fix immediate crash resulting from bad use of Gtk.StyleContext on newer versions of PyGObject and/or GTK+ (#687513)

Remove deprecated get_data and set_data calls

Use Gtk.Grid for preferences dialog instead of Gtk.Table

Release source tarballs only compressed as tar.xz (instead of the previous tar.gz and tar.bz2)

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1.10(Apr 6, 2015)
Migrate to Python 3, GTK+ 3, GNOME 3 and PyGI

Bump Python dependency to 3.2 or greater

Replace PyGTK dependency with PyGobject 3.0.0 or greater

Add 48x48 and 256x256 pixel PNG icons and remove SVG icon

Speed up text parsing and display when opening files

Update Bulgarian translation (Svetoslav Stefanov)

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1.9.5(Apr 6, 2015)
Fix opening files by drag and drop

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1.9.4(Apr 6, 2015)
Fix broken inheritance of action classes, which caused NFO Viewer to fail to start with recent versions of (Py)GTK

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1.9.3(Apr 6, 2015)
Update author email address

Move development repository from Gitorious to GitHub (https://github.com/otsaloma/nfoview)

Abandon use of Transifex for translations

Add Turkish translation (Anonymous)

Add Serbian translation (Goran Velemirov)

Update French translation (Anonymous)

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1.9.2(Apr 6, 2015)
Update Polish translation (Piotr Drąg)

Add Russian translation (Алекс)

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