Wednesday, January 12, 2000, 3:48:40 PM, Alexander wrote:
>> Right, looked at it. I dunno, but I like ACDeeSee's "browser" mode. I
> There's almost the same in PMView: File-->Open and you're there;-)
"Almost" is being kind, don't you think? In ACDeeSee I turn off all but
the "thumbnail" and file list. Now I enlarge the thumbnail section as large
as it goes to leave 1 row of the file list left. Even without maximizing
(which I don't do) this is large enough to display the picture at full
resolution or at a large enough resolution where degradation from reduction is
minimal.
I like a picture, I press down arrow. I dislike it, I press shift down
arrow. If it is part of a series I don't like I move my eyes over, move to
the end of the series while holding shift and move them back. Every once and
a while I hit delete to prevent the marked files from getting too large. I
also do that when I see a picture I want so I can avoid a miskey losing
previous marks of pictures I want to delete.
PMView's file list is *nothing* like that at all. It is an extremely fast
and effective way to go through a simply huge number of pictures.
> Might be, but the functionality is lacking.
It is a picture viewer. It views pictures. It does it extremely well. I
think this is an argument for a specialized application doing one thing and
doing it well.
> PMView handles this. Plus is can be used for scanning. Plus filtering
> images. Plus configurable shortcuts (!!!).
Filtering as in apply graphical filters to an image (editing) or filtering
as in being able to decide in a quick manner whether to keep or discard an
image and where to move it to? If the latter, ACDeeSee does it much, MUCH
better and doesn't need configurable shortcuts to do it. Standard CUA keys
and sensible defaults are all that is needed. When filtering my pictures I
literally use, up, down, left right, shift down, shift up, del, alt-a, alt-m.
That is it.
> And on top of *all* that it's just plain faster and displays images *better*
> (better resampling support, to be more precise) then ACDC.
ACDeeSee is fast as it is. The only reason it is slow on my machine is
because I am often accessing the pictures over NFS and so the loading of the
image is limited to ~500Kps. As for display, I've not been on a display that
has required dithering since 1990.
> And all this is NOT a monster, it's a reasonable download (the size of ACDC,
> practically).
Sounds like a monster to me. Because it has branched out into things
other than image viewing it lacks as an image viewer compared to the dedicated
image viewer.
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