Current version 2.5.1 released on 01/06/08

2.5.1 for Mac OS X 10.2 or later.

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About Goldberg

Goldberg is a freeware image and movie viewer with image editing capabilities and support for applying QuickTime and other effects.

Version 2.0 is a major rewrite and offers rotation capabilities, free zooming, undo support and more.

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Image viewer's features

- Support ColorSync when displaying and printing (ColorSync savvy application)
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Read PICT, Photoshop, JPEG, JPEG 2000, TIFF, FlashPix, GIF, PNG, Targa, BMP, SGI, and PDF files
with ICC (Color Profile) and EXIF support for JPEG, TIFF and Photoshop formats

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Save as PICT, PDF, TIFF, Photoshop, JPEG, or JPEG 2000 file
with ICC (Color Profile) and EXIF support for JPEG, TIFF and Photoshop formats

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Export as PNG, Targa, BMP, SGI or qtif file

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Support PICT, Movie, TIFF and PDF Clipboard formats

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Copy to Clipboard as PICT with QuickTime compression

- Handle large PICT image (> 4095 pixels)
- Can open several images in the Open file window (Navigation Services window)
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Saving using long file name > 31 characters

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Display long file name in the window title

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View as real or print size

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Contextual Menu support

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Printing

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Tools

  • Selection tool, with fixed size, or fixed aspect ratios
  • Zoom-In & Zoom-out tools (with zoom in a given area by click and drag)
  • Hand tool, Hand too still available with the other tools (when CapsLock key is locked)

A tool can be chosen using its key (M:Selection (Marquee), Z:Zoom, H:Hand)

- Editing Capabilities with Undo support
  • Crop the current selection
  • Resize image and change its resolution
    with resample algorithms: Nearest Neighbor, Bi-Linear, Bicubic Spline, Bicubic B-Spline, Bicubic QuickTime, Lanczos3 and Lanczos5.
  • Rotation
    180°, +/- 90° and arbitrary + Flip horizontally or vertically
  • Applying QuickTime Effects such:
    Blur, Brightness & Contrast, Color Tint, Edge Detection, Emboss, HSL Balance, Sharpen, etc…
  • Revert to previous saved file

Movie viewer's features

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Open and view QuickTime movie files and animated GIF files

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Allow to copy the current selection as a PICT (to extract one image)
or a Movie (to extract a sequence)

What's New in Version 2.4

The Selection Tool (Marquee) has been enhanced: the current selection can be changed: just click inside and drag it. The current selection can still be dragged on the Desktop with the Command modifier key depressed.

A new menu Selection has been added with new commands to set the selection size or set a fixed aspect ratio, predefined or custom. Predefined aspect ratios are:

The aspect ratio of the selection can be inverted, e.g. 4 : 3 to 3 : 4, with the Option modifier key depressed while dragging the marquee tool at any time during the selection.

New resampling methods in resize window have been added:

These resampling algorithms preserve details better where scale factors are higher than 400%. Render smooth edges and sharp images. Not recommended where scale factors are smaller than 100%. Both Lanczos3 and Lanczos5 are only available under Mac OS 10.3 or later. Update to 10.3.3 is highly recommended for faster results. Click here to view a comparision between bi-linear, bi-cubic, Lanczos3 and Lanczos5 resampling methods for enlargment.

And minor changes:

What's New in Version 2.5

Finally Goldberg is a ColorSync savvy application. The embedded ICC profile found in image is used when displaying or printing. A Color Settings command in Edit menu has been added to change the default behavior with ICC profile and ColorSync. The sRGB profile is automatically used as the default profile when a jpg file with an EXIF tag (image produced by a digital camera) has no embedded profile. Goldberg 2.5 is fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 (aka Tiger).

What's New in Version 2.5.1

Exif Orientation tag (0x0112) is supported for JPEG and TIFF files (http://jpegclub.org/exif_orientation.html). Goldberg 2.5.1 is fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 (aka Leopard).

Compatibility and System Requirements

Mac OS X QuickTime
10.2, 10.3 & 10.4 QuickTime 6 or later
We recommand Mac OS X 10.3 or 10.4
with QuickTime 6.5 or later 

Known Issues

Under Mac OS X 10.x

To force to open a file with Goldberg using the icon in the Dock press Command and Options keys while dragging the file on the icon.

Version 2.5.1 is not compatible with Mac OS X 10.1 and 10.0.

Release Notes

The release notes is available here.

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Thanks to Axel Chaminade for the French translation.
Thanks to Yuzuru Shiraiwa (a.k.a. E-WA) for the Japanese translation. More


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Last update: 01/06/08