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Main Area and Open Discussion => General Software Discussion => Topic started by: cmpm on February 25, 2008, 10:59 AM
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http://f2soft.ax3.net/
Yeah, it's fast but could be better in the options.
Like I would like the file I'm viewing to be highlighted in the left pane.
It is displayed in the title bar though.
Can't seem to change the background color when viewing files.
But quite a plus in the range of files that can be viewed!
Text, pics, videos, web stuff...lots of things.
Quickly too.
I set the menu/options buttons to quit hiding, that was annoying.
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Please feel free to add any other fast viewers to this thread if you like.
That's why I put a space in the Title -Fast View- instead of Fastview which it is called.
This is a great review on Fast Stone's MaxView by jgpaiva.
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=12089.0
MaxView out performs Fastview with pictures in speed.
I haven't tried MaxView with any other type of file.
Another thing on my list to do.
Fastview may be trying to do too much.
With it's Multimedia setting it does not read some documents and files correctly. Namely Ashampoo's TextMaker docs. Though it does fine with MSWord docs. Also some files come up as the code instead of the file you want to see.
Still playing with it and on the lookout for others that can perform.
Sometimes boredom can make for great discoveries, ha.
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http://www.xequte.com/ifunviewer/index.html
another, pics -mainly-
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looks nice. will give it a shot.
I use atviewer.
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Just started playing with ImageWalker (http://www.imagewalker.com/) - a fast/lightweight image management and viewing application that runs on Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista. It can read the following file formats: BMP, GIF, ICO, JIF, JNG, JPG, KOA, LBM, MNG, PCD, PCDS, PCX, PNG, PNM, RAS, SUN, TGA, TIF, WBMP, WMF and writes GIF, JIF, JPG, PNG, TIF.
Screenshot:
[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
Features:
- See you images in their full glory: Edit, view and slideshow images in full screen mode.
- Automatically scan metadata information (e.g., size, date taken, exposure or aperture) or add your own keywords and descriptions to keep track of your photos.
- Work the way you want: ImageWalker will index images for speed in any folder and does not force you to keep images in an enforced folder structure.
- Save time: manipulate and print multiple images at a time using batch functions.
- Preserve photo quality by using Non destructive (lossless) JPEG rotation and crop.
- Upload images to Flickr: preserving description and keyword information while registering the images flicker ID in local image metadata.
- Generate HTML web galleries for displaying images on your web own site.
- Preview and view RAW image formats with full colour management support for ICC and ICM profiles.
- Runs great on slower computers and Unicode compliant
- And best of all...its FREE for home use
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Yes I have the atviewer and it comes in very handy.
And wow! I like that ImageWalker, very cool and nice options.
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http://forcevision.net/
This one uses two windows.
One for the explorer and one for the view.
Great for dual monitors.
Of course it works fine on a single monitor also.
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In my search for a plugin to view TextMaker documents saved as .tmd instead of a format that FastView could read. I came across this viewer from TextMaker which is a viewer for text docs for like 5 different office programs. Like Open Office, TextMaker, Word and a
few couple more.
Though it didn't help with FastView, it is a good viewer for docs not saved in a format that you have a program for, if it's needed.
http://www.officeviewers.com/
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The thing I like most about FastView after 3½ days is the power to rapidly view the content of a lot of files of various formats, one after the other, without opening all sorts of file viewers. Other than that, I suspect I will use FastView quite seldom.
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Yes, I don't know of another program like it yet.
It uses Total Commander plugins of which you can even build your own.
I've also found that if you click on the pic or doc it will be highlighted in the explorer.
As far as reading docs it seems to read the .rtf files but not some other document formats.
You can double click any item in the explorer part of fastview and it will open in it's default application.
The viewer from Textmaker -officeviewer-is much faster then opening MSWord. If it's set to being the default viewer for Word or TextMaker, Fastview can use it also.
Btw, these are all free or free for personal use so far in this thread.
I really like that Imagewalker and ForceVision too, very cool imo.
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I tried the ForceVision too, and there sure were some fine features, but ind the end we didn't make friends with each other. ImageWalker is fine too, and makes me wonder: just how big / small is a thumb's nail? Anyway, I like this version of the Thumbnail's view:
- click thumbnail (!!) to see full sized ImageWalker > Thumbnail's View:
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It sure makes room for a lot of nails, doesn't it...
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Wega2 (http://www.wega2.vandel.nl/) is another decent freeware Image Viewer.
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This is not a thumbnail viewer, rather it is a very fast higres sequence view you can also view quicktimes.
http://djv.sourceforge.net/
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http://f2soft.ax3.net/
Yeah, it's fast but could be better in the options.
Like I would like the file I'm viewing to be highlighted in the left pane.
It is displayed in the title bar though.
Can't seem to change the background color when viewing files.
But quite a plus in the range of files that can be viewed!
Text, pics, videos, web stuff...lots of things.
Quickly too.
I set the menu/options buttons to quit hiding, that was annoying.
-cmpm
I like this one but it looks like it is not under developement. Do you know any other one that is multi format viewer like this one? I "am not" looking for a viewer that only does multimedia stuff. And as usual I am looking for DC "user experince" based suggestions.
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Any suggestions?
thanks
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kartal, what I seem to have the best luck with is ACDSee. It can view almost any graphics and video format while doing it with a pleasant user interface.
Total Commander can do it, too, but I'm pretty sure you aren't that hard-core about your files. :)
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Innuendo,
I am actually not looking for an only "multimedia viewer", I need an any viewer, html, mht, documents, pdf, jpg, movies etc. I use Xyplorer`s viewer it works nice however its interface design iss not really suitable as a full "viewer". It is only good for quick content check. I also use Fastview but it is buggy, certain interface stuff bugs me. I tried Universal Explorer but that one crashes on my system.
I tried TC but it could not show .mht(compressed web files) files which I use frequently.
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BTW, the next version of XYplorer (8.10) will have a full screen preview for HTML, MHT, URL, NWS, EML, and MSG files in perfect original size quality.
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DonL, it sounds great. I personally prefer left side browsing right side document viewing but full screen view might accomodate the current XYplorer layout. Thanks for development. Xyplorer keeps getting better.
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FYI, XY's full screen mode supports walking through the current list using PageUp/PageDown.
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http://www.firegraphic.com/
named an image program, but plays music and music videos
no document viewer that i can find
the one missing ingredient to an all in one viewer/player
not free
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FYI, XY's full screen mode supports walking through the current list using PageUp/PageDown.
-DonL
Would not it interfere with pdf or html browsing though?
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BTW, the next version of XYplorer (8.10) will have a full screen preview for HTML, MHT, URL, NWS, EML, and MSG files in perfect original size quality.
-DonL
FYI, XY's full screen mode supports walking through the current list using PageUp/PageDown.
-DonL
Sounds great!
I looked recently for 'viewer' in the XY forums but couldnt find anything and was thinking I'd start a thread about it - plans(?), wishes(!) but didnt get around to it so far.
I may as well say my spiel here -
I'd love to see a viewer that would
- show files in the order they are sorted (no slideshow, just some key to move on or back) - which sounds like what you've planned :up:
- allow easy zooming in to selected area (I can see this could be problematic if you're showing so many different formats) e.g. Ctrl+Drag to select area to zoom in - or Ctrl+mousewheel, but that usually doesnt allow zooming into particular area - could be really great if it zoomed into where the mouse arrow was
I dont think there's any file manager with the combination of those two in it's viewer (maybe DOpus 9, I havent tried that)
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2kartal
If TC does not work properly for you (it can show MHT files in lister but there are no thumbs for them), maybe try something like Universal Viewer:
http://www.uvviewsoft.com/
It can handle many file types by its own but if you're missing something it can handle TC plugins too. The only bad thing I can say about it: free version does not have thumbnails browser built in. Though it is still great tool.
P.S. I've just checked it: UV shows MHT using IE control (I assume that XY does it in the same way).
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fenixproductions, I actually mentioned it in my previous reply. It crashes on my winxp64.
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http://www.firegraphic.com/
named an image program, but plays music and music videos
no document viewer that i can find
the one missing ingredient to an all in one viewer/player
not free
-cmpm
Yeah it looks good, the list of formats is extensible but for my needs I need more than multimedia viewer. I have a netbook and I want to keep number of running programs as low as possible.
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2kartal
Sorry then. I must be blind vision impaired :)
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fenixproductions, no problem. I do that all the time, reading long list of forum replies is not fun sometimes.
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http://www.filesee.com/
http://www.filesee.com/lite/
another i came across
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I'd love to see a viewer that would
- show files in the order they are sorted (no slideshow, just some key to move on or back) - which sounds like what you've planned :up:
- allow easy zooming in to selected area (I can see this could be problematic if you're showing so many different formats) e.g. Ctrl+Drag to select area to zoom in - or Ctrl+mousewheel, but that usually doesnt allow zooming into particular area - could be really great if it zoomed into where the mouse arrow was
-tomos
1. yes, it works that way
2. XY's MDBU feature (MouseDownBlowUp: mouse button down on a thumbnail in the file list or on the preview on the preview tab) will always attempt to show the preview in the largest possible size (up to 100%). If this is larger than your screen you can pan around the image by moving the mouse.
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http://www.filesee.com/
http://www.filesee.com/lite/
another i came across
-cmpm
Thanks for the finding it looks interesting. I will give it a try.
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I'm not sure if this is good.
Looks impressive but no price stated.
http://www.snowbound.com/Virtual_Viewer/viewer_overview.html
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http://www.stdutility.com/stduexplorer.html
worth checking out
it's free
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worth a look from xtort.net.
http://www.oasys-software.com/products/document_management/columbus/
http://www.oasys-software.com/products/document_management/columbus/features.shtml
has it's own internal viewers
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I'd love to see a viewer that would
- show files in the order they are sorted (no slideshow, just some key to move on or back) - which sounds like what you've planned :up:
- allow easy zooming in to selected area (I can see this could be problematic if you're showing so many different formats) e.g. Ctrl+Drag to select area to zoom in - or Ctrl+mousewheel, but that usually doesnt allow zooming into particular area - could be really great if it zoomed into where the mouse arrow was
-tomos
1. yes, it works that way
2. XY's MDBU feature (MouseDownBlowUp: mouse button down on a thumbnail in the file list or on the preview on the preview tab) will always attempt to show the preview in the largest possible size (up to 100%). If this is larger than your screen you can pan around the image by moving the mouse.
-DonL
I missed your reply here Don (thanks) so here's a belated response:
The 'MouseDownBlowUp' setting has to be changed in Options - it's either full-size or fit to window - no easy way to change.
I think it would be worth considering some way to zoom into a selected area of an image (with the MDBU setting at 'Fit to window') - you could be making XY the first (and maybe for many, the only) port of call in sorting/organising images - especially in connection with your posts about tagging Re: Why is it so hard to find a decent image organizer? (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=7513.msg174354#msg174354)
As I say I dont know of any other file manager that offers this combination and as for image viewers/organisers, once you're used to a good file manager, unless you're a pro photographer, or actually editing pictures, why should you have to change from that file manager...
This is also the case for people who work with images, especially mixed in with other files. I deal with a lot of scanned images (it's not fine-art but needs to be a certain standard) - I want to manage them: sort them & get a quick look at the quality of important areas of the scan.
Then if needs be I open them in programme of choice (courtesy xy's portable file associations :up:)
I'd have exactly the same requirements for photos though (personal) - but I will be wanting to tag many of them so I'll have to have a closer look at the last few posts in above thread
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I think it would be worth considering some way to zoom into a selected area of an image (with the MDBU setting at 'Fit to window')...-tomos
You mean > 100% zoom? Checking out pixels? A bit tricky to wheel the mouse while one button is held down... If you have a good idea for the handling let me know.
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I think it would be worth considering some way to zoom into a selected area of an image (with the MDBU setting at 'Fit to window')...-tomos
You mean > 100% zoom? Checking out pixels? A bit tricky to wheel the mouse while one button is held down... If you have a good idea for the handling let me know.
-DonL
With the mouse wheel [+Control key] I was thinking of the way FF zooms - in increments related to the wheel clicks (so no, I wasnt thinking of 100%). I find that an easy way of zooming a webpage anyway.
With an image - it would be ideal if it zoomed keeping the point where the arrow is as centre of the image, that way you would have a selective zoom.
FastStone viewer uses Ctrl+drag mouse to select an area - this area will then be zoomed to size of window.
Acrobat and other graphics programmes use a more complicated system:
Control+Spacebar+drag mouse -> selected area is again zoomed to window size.
Control+Spacebar+click mouse -> will zoom image in increments (for each click).
Add Alt:
Control+Alt+Spacebar+click mouse -> will reduce image in increments.
[edit in square brackets]
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I think it would be worth considering some way to zoom into a selected area of an image (with the MDBU setting at 'Fit to window')...-tomos
You mean > 100% zoom? Checking out pixels? A bit tricky to wheel the mouse while one button is held down... If you have a good idea for the handling let me know.
-DonL
With the mouse wheel [+Control key] I was thinking of the way FF zooms - in increments related to the wheel clicks (so no, I wasnt thinking of 100%). I find that an easy way of zooming a webpage anyway.
With an image - it would be ideal if it zoomed keeping the point where the arrow is as centre of the image, that way you would have a selective zoom.
FastStone viewer uses Ctrl+drag mouse to select an area - this area will then be zoomed to size of window.
Acrobat and other graphics programmes use a more complicated system:
Control+Spacebar+drag mouse -> selected area is again zoomed to window size.
Control+Spacebar+click mouse -> will zoom image in increments (for each click).
Add Alt:
Control+Alt+Spacebar+click mouse -> will reduce image in increments.
[edit in square brackets]
-tomos
Not sure now if it is possible but I made a note for v8.40.
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I think it would be worth considering some way to zoom into a selected area of an image (with the MDBU setting at 'Fit to window')...-tomos
You mean > 100% zoom? Checking out pixels? A bit tricky to wheel the mouse while one button is held down... If you have a good idea for the handling let me know.
-DonL
With the mouse wheel [+Control key] I was thinking of the way FF zooms - in increments related to the wheel clicks (so no, I wasnt thinking of 100%). I find that an easy way of zooming a webpage anyway.
With an image - it would be ideal if it zoomed keeping the point where the arrow is as centre of the image, that way you would have a selective zoom.
FastStone viewer uses Ctrl+drag mouse to select an area - this area will then be zoomed to size of window.
. . . -tomos
Not sure now if it is possible but I made a note for v8.40.
-DonL
another idea would be to make it possible to toggle the 'Shrink to fit window' when the preview is open - not exactly what I was looking for but close!
[edit] NOT wanting you to abandon the quest ! but maybe it's better/easier to do it in smaller steps ? - I dunno anything about programming . . [/edit]
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ImageWalker (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=12457.msg104046#msg104046) is now called Diffractor.
Details at http://www.diffractor.com/
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ImageWalker (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=12457.msg104046#msg104046) is now called Diffractor.
Details at http://www.diffractor.com/-PhilB66
-but when later removed from the computer, it leaves 11 keys and 58 values in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Diffractor, and a database in C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Diffractor behind.
The program is smart and surprisingly fast, and even nice (in a posh, modern way).
I just didn't like it enough to keep it.