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Viewing an image under Windows 7 from a command line

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Useful to open an image for viewing from the command line under Windows, in this example the image is generated by the GraphViz dot command.

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@rem pick a type for the image:
@set TYPE=jpeg
 
@rem run the graphviz dot to generate the image of the given type
@dot %1.gv -v -o %1.%TYPE% -T%TYPE%
 
@rem can show it using standard Windows image viewer
@rundll32.exe %SystemRoot%\System32\shimgvw.dll, ImageView_Fullscreen %CD%\%1.%TYPE%
 
@rem or can show it using the Windows Live Essentials Photo Viewer 
@rem that ends up with the same as above:
@rem rundll32 "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Windows Photo Viewer\PhotoViewer.dll",ImageView_Fullscreen %CD%\%1.%TYPE%
 
@rem or can use 3rd party viewer such as IrfanView:
@rem "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\IrfanView\i_view32.exe" %1.%TYPE%
 
@rem delete the image
@del *.%TYPE%

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