About
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.
NFO Viewer should run on all major operating systems, but is primarily targeted for Unix-like systems (GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, etc). The user interface is based on the GTK+ toolkit and has been designed to best fit the GNOME desktop environment.
NFO Viewer is free software released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Packages
The easiest way to install NFO Viewer is via your operating system's package management. NFO Viewer is packaged at least for Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo Linux, Mac OS X, Mandriva and Ubuntu. Make sure you have the linked repository enabled and use your operating system's package management tools to install package "nfoview".
Source
The latest source code release is 1.8. A list of changes can be found in the "NEWS" file. You can try NFO Viewer just by running it from the source directory. For instructions on running and installing, please read the "README" and "INSTALL" files included in the source package.
Download: nfoview-1.8.tar.gz
Older versions are available as well. Use version 1.1.2, which contains mimetype installation files, if using shared-mime-info 0.23 or older. NFO Viewer requires Python 2.5 or greater and PyGTK 2.12 or greater. Terminus font is recommended and used by default.
Development Version
The development version of NFO Viewer is mainly meant for developers. It should also be stable enough for daily use, but is unlikely to contain any significant new features. The development code resides in a git repository. To get a local copy of the code, use command
git clone git://gitorious.org/nfoview/mainline.git nfoview
Web interfaces for the development code can be found at Gitorious and repo.or.cz.
Mailing Lists and Forums
You can reach the developers via nfoview-list for any usage or development discussion. nfoview-list is archived at least at Gna and The Mail Archive. A forum-style interface to nfoview-list with possibility to post from the web is available at Nabble. To be kept informed on new releases and other major events, you can subscribe to the nfoview-announcements list. Traffic on the list should be very low.
Bugs
Bugs and patches to fix bugs are filed in GNOME Bugzilla, under product nfoview. Feature requests are filed as bugs with severity marked as "enhancement".
Contributing Code
If you're interested in writing code, you can take a look at the "TODO" file and existing bug reports for ideas. NFO Viewer is considered feature complete and simplicity a relevant feature, therefore further development needs are mostly user interface and usability improvements. Automatically generated crude API documentation is available online for the latest release.
Contributing Translations
If you're interested in translating the user interface to your language, please read the "README" file in the "po" directory. Translations are available on the Transifex open translation web service, which you can use, if you wish, to check the status, to edit, to submit and to monitor translations.
Authors
NFO Viewer is written by Osmo Salomaa.