iNFekt
The ultimate best NFO viewer, ever!
Current version: 1.3.0 (July 7th 2023)
This project is maintained by syndicode
iNFekt for Windows
A text viewer application that has been carefully designed around its main task: viewing and presenting NFO files. It comes with three different view modes (Rendered, Classic and Text Only), export functionality and lots of options! The GUI version works on Windows 10 and up. You can use previous iNFekt versions for Windows 2000, XP, 7. The CLI version is supported on Windows and Linux.
Key features
- Display NFO files of all common charsets (including CP 437 and Unicode)
- Fix & display many broken encodings that other viewers choke on
- You can fine-tune colors for text, background, block art and more
- Clickable hyperlinks, including links that span multiple lines
- Enhanced rendering mode / Classic mode / Text-only mode
- Basic ANSI Art support (16+ colors)
- Anti-aliasing
- Built-in zoom
- Export functionality
- Auto-refresh and browse folder features
- Integrated updater
- Free and Open Source
- Portable versions available
- Command line version for easy conversions to PNG, Unicode, HTML, PDF...
Screenshots
Downloads
- iNFekt for Windows: Version 1.3.0 - Convenient installation package - recommended download
- iNFekt for Windows: Version 1.3.0 - 32 bit portable release
- iNFekt for Windows: Version 1.3.0 - 64 bit portable release
The previous version is available from the archive.
If you run into any trouble, please check the FAQ page first. Should your issue persist, or if you have any other problem or suggestion, please use the issue tracker.
Product Matrix
| GPU acceleration | Shell integration | Plugins | Command line version | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Installation package | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 32 bit portable | optional (1) | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 64 bit portable | optional (1) | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| PortableApps.com edition | optional (1) | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
(1) Optional GPU support: GPU support will be activated if the operating system is Windows Vista or higher and the latest Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable is installed system-wide.
About
iNFekt is a native application written in C++. It uses the Cairo open source graphics libraries. Where available, rendering uses multi-core CPUs and is accelerated by GPU hardware.
iNFekt for Linux
The command line version is fully functional on Linux. There's also a basic GTK+ version in the source code repository. If you would like to work on improving it, please get in touch via GitHub.