The almost Swiss Army Knife of graphics viewers. NAME and DOWNLOAD LINK: XnView DESCRIPTION: Graphics viewer with pizzazz. SIZE: 1.1-3.9MB depending on OS. Self-executing and zipped versions. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: Varies by operating system: MS-DOS, Win3.x, Win9x/NT/2000/ME/XP, Linux x86, FreeBSD x86, Irix mips, Solaris sparc, Solaris x86, HP-UX, AIX, Atari, BeOS x86, OS/2. COMMENT: XnView's claim to fame is it can import some 360 graphic file formats and export about 40. Some may laugh, but the day will come when you'll want to open an .emf, .wpg, .pict2, .kdc, .ai, .ppt or .pdd file. If you get around the Net often, you'll come upon quite few .tar files as well. XnView has 'em all covered from ADEX to Zsoft Publisher's Paintbrush. And it lets you convert them (singularly or by batch) to any one of 40 more common files, including the ever popular .gif, .jpg. .png, .tif, .bmp, .ico. Other features include a basic slide show creator; the ability to play .wav, .mpeg and .avi files; capture your desktop, window or active window multiple times; acquire via TWAIN from your camera or scanner; create thumbnails for your Web site; make contact sheets; print pix. For EXIF compatible digital cameras (and most are), XnView will tell you when the photo was taken, by which make and model of camera, width and height in pixels, ISO, and on and on. Though XnView is not primarily a graphics editor, you can solarize, posterize, adjust brightness, contrast, gamma, balance, crop, rotate, flip, resize, and toy with 23 filter effects. Unfortunately, you can undo a series of actions only one step. Not good for serious editing. There are more display options than you'd care to count, right down to your choice of language from Afrikaans to Vietnamese. RATING: You'd be hard pressed to find a commercial version this flexible.