NFO Viewer

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, Linux Mint, Mac OS X, Mageia, Mandriva, Slackware 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 release is 1.10. 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.

Older versions are available as well. NFO Viewer requires Python 3.2 or greater and PyGObject 3.0.0 or greater. Terminus font is recommended and used by default.

Development Code

The development version of NFO Viewer is mainly meant for those working on the code. 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

Mailing Lists

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. To be kept informed on new releases and other major events, you can subscribe to the nfoview-announcements list.

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

If you're interested in writing code, you might find the generated API documentation helpful. NFO Viewer is considered feature complete and simple on purpose and thus further development needs are mostly user interface and usability improvements. If you're interested in translating the user interface to your language, please read the "README" file in the "po" directory.