.ABR format support

[temp-64GTX]

Hello. Whether support of a *.abr (Adobe Photoshop Brush) is planned?

[XnTriq]

Starting with version 1.97 XnView is able to read ABR files and (batch-)convert them.

Suggestions: browse photoshop brush folder(.abr)+read pfi(photofiltre)

IMO this is big news. Sooner or later every Photoshop (or Photoshop Elements) user is looking for a more convenient way to view this kind of presets. All other programs I know are either slow, not free, Mac-only or require Microsoft's .NET framework.

• Robert Redwood: ABRView
• Luigi Bellanca: abrViewer
• Jay Hilgert: Brush Pilot
• Laura Dickey: BrushView QuickLook PlugIn
• TumaSoft: Preset Viewer

If XnView treated ABRs like ZIP & RAR archives, every brush (= pages/frames) inside an ABR file (= archive/multi-page file) could have its own thumbnail in the browser, and all brushes belonging to a particular ABR could be arranged in groups.

• Group by Date (day,week,month,year)
• Ability to display multipage icons as “Snapshot”
• Suggestion: Browser Group Mode

[charlesroper]

I would just like to add my support for an ABR browser. XnTriq's ideas sound ideal.

[Crysler]

Highly seconded.

The current read support is a nice beginning but clicking through the frames doesn't give the needed overview. So a real browsing support would be a great step forwards.

btw.: There seems to be a bug in the brushes display: compared to what e.g. abrviewer displays, XnView shows the brushes inverted.