A further limitation is that it currently does not allow sorting thumbnails within a folder by a user-defined order. XnView can show IPTC, Exif, and XMP metadata and write IPTC metadata (but cannot do batch writing of IPTC metadata with some users longing for the batch IPTC editing function). XnView also supports ICC profiles in JPEG, PNG, and TIFF files. It can read more than 400 image file formats and various audio and video file formats and write 50 image file formats. It has also supported many file formats (mainly image file formats). It supports many image file formats that other powerful image organizers such as ACDSee do not. It is popular with users as it provides many features typically found in commercial image viewers. It is free for private, non-commercial, educational, and non-profit organizations. I have about 4,000 personal digicam pics that are only sorted by date in several subfolders so far.XnView MP is a cross-platform image viewer used to view, convert, organize, and edit graphical & video files. I want to use the category feature of XnView to finally have comfortable and quick access to any pics that I usually never found. I found zero information about this feature in the online help or the forum FAQ. I worked with this feature and think that I understand how to use it - but it is so cumbersome that I can't believe I am doing it right. Ok, here is what I do:Įnter a dir with the browser, select first picture, then click in the category area at the bottom at the right category so it gets checked. Problem one: how to change to the next pic? Too much mouse movement (too far away), and the keyboard (pic up down or similar) only navigate in the category area, but don't change to the next mini-pic for selection. Supports more than 500 image formats (including multipage and animated still formats APNG, TIFF, GIF, ICO, etc.) Comes with an easy to use yet powerful batch. Problem two: when I change to another pic a confirmation dialog asks me if I want to save the changes (the category definition). Problem three: I want to speed up my work by multiple selection of mini-pics in the browser that will get the same category. Hey, I have 4,000 pics to work through! This way I will not finish before 2025 But as soon as I select more than one the category function vanishes. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's to assign categories to the selected filesįunny.that dialog never came up when I worked on this.but now it does! It also seems to answer my next question, at least partly (about delete, see below). If I change the name of the pics outside of XnView, or the name of the pic's directory (even within XnView), the category database is not informed about the changes. My question would have been how to edit the category information in case of changes, but this is possible with the Assign Category dialog, which allows a 'delete' of no longer valid information as well.Īn automatic synchronization should be implemented at least for changing names from within XnView! Means either for changing file names or dir names via the directory tree on the left (folder view). Please note that an intuitive approach (IMHO) for both the preview pic database and the category database would have been to simply select all the 'replacement pics' (as the original pics are no longer visible) and to delete them. Right now XnView complains that it can't delete the file (which I don't want anyway) because it does not find it.
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