Is there better than Irfanview ? I prefer free of course. I hope for fox... Why fox ? I have foxit as .pdf and firefox and something like that. I like fox, lol.

Faststone Image Vewer. Definite replacement to even Acdsee, so thats something.

XNview is THE ultimate contender to Irfanview, though (it reads so many file formats its not even funny, considerably more than irfanview). For this situation, I believe XNview would be the one you'd find the most appropriate.

Too many file formats ? I dont need that because I prefer png and jpg. I don't understand.

5 times more formats can be read, including the playstation's TIM format for example. Just try, you'll see. Its just better than Irfanview.

Ahh, I will try it but I hate this icon:

Ahh, I will try it but I hate this icon:

The program is not about its icon, it's about it's functionality and how well it does it. Anyways, I think that the icon is nice and creative.

True but I still hate this icon, lol! That doesn't suit my taste, man. Anyway.. This program is interesting. Is there other program familiar to those two ?

No. XNview is the most capable in its class (and in the freeware range). Compared to it, Irfanview looks like sh*t, excuse the term.

Does anyone know of some type of software that displays non-standard image types when icons are in thumbnail view? Something that shows .ai and .psd files and other image file types that Windows doesn't show by default when icons are thumbnails. Also, is there something that shows non-standard images in the Windows Picture and Fax viewer? I prefer to open images in that program because of how fast it loads up images when compared to other image viewers.

You are the only person that I know of who cusses tastefully and in a proper way.

@ TCOS:
Without a thumbnail saved in AI files, displaying these directly in explorer and outside of pic editors -with vector decode support- should not be avaialble (at least direct rendering. explorer doesnt seem to render thumbs of vector stuff, at least not without ghostscript- for eps, ai, pdf, emf...).

- for AI thumba, a dll and reg file are needed. Done (some report it doesnt work as easily as that in Vistas)
- same procedure for pds thumbs (works equally cool in xp and vistas, it would seem)

This here works even when the proper progs for these are not installed (there should be no need installing these just to have thumbnails, after all). well, thats all about it.

For superfast pic opening, the latest Acdsee (Pro 2?) has a strippeddown superfast "QuickView" application, which is basically ACDsee without all the bloat, and which generally displays pics under 1 second on a midrange rig. ACDsee is pretty much a musthave viewer anyway, though I personally still find its animated gif rendering unsatisfying)


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This post was last modified: 04-24-2008 04:26 AM by Hard Core Rikki.

Thank you so much HCR! This makes browsing for my art files so much easier. The only quirk with that is that the thumbnails are diplayed using rearest neighbor scaling method, so it's more pixellated and it's not as smooth as the regular image thumbnails. Still great though!

You're just a walking entity of knowledge. Thanks for your help. You could have skipped the explanation and just posted the files HCR. j/k Thanks for the detailed info.

Hmm. It appears that Acdsee doesn't have a demo to try out.

BTW: While I'm at it, is there anything that shows svg and eps files as thumbnails as well?

In the same installer, not inputting a customer serial leaves the choice to run it in Trial mode.

for eps and svg, not sure. Wathever would be needed for that, I'm sure Ghostscript would be required, especially for smoothing (the dlls themsleves do not include smoothing capabilities, thats more part of the bigger softs theyre a part of)

A soft called ST Thumbnail Explorer seems to allow that kind of stuff, but that's more of like they've not bothered to shared the trick (not free, cr*ppy and too featureless for the fee asked!! Shame on them). I'll check tonight if it could be done for svg and eps the same way (i expect it could)

I appreciate all of the help HCR.