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Bonjour Pierre,
it works when I use "enlarge" for both "Border actions"!

Seems that the "enlarge" option was introduced with 1.8.4. ...

So this is resolved. Thanks very much for your support!

Cheers
Ludger

Bonjour Pierre,
just using "enlarge" doesn't give the same result as using this with version 1.8.3.!
The processed image is then 20 pixels smaler in each dimension (in this example 2612x1846 with 1.8.6. vs. 2632x1866 with 1.8.3. ...
Changing the 4th border to 166px results in the same size as before ...

>>> I think what happens from 1.8.4. onwards is that the 1. "Border action" is skipped when there is another ""Border action". <<<
... or somehow "overwritten" ... in 1.8.3. the 2nd "Border action was "added" to the result of the 1st "Border action" ...

... I already sent the script ... it is included in the 7z archiv!

Here it is again as a zip!

Please note that I use 2 "Border actions" with 2 frames each!!!!

I think what happens from 1.8.4. onwards is that the 1. "Border action" is skipped when there is another ""Border action".


Thanks a lot ...

... I always save my developed photos as tiff and for presentation I convert to a jpg of a certain size with that border/frame ...

Bonjour!
thank's for having a look at this ...
Enclosed I supply a test file for you coming together with the results of the convertion once processed with 1.8.3 and once with 1.8.6. There is also the parameter file (as a 7z archive)... I hope you can reproduce the problem.

À bientôt
Ludger

Hi,
since Version 1.8.4 the "Border" action of "Batch convert ..." does not work correct!

Please, have a look at the attached screenshots for details.
There is a resize action before but that doesn't affect the generated border/frame.


Do you need further information?

Best regards
Ludger

P.S ...

Hi,
thx for your reply. The problems occured more than a year ago. Using newer version of XnView MP I didn't run into that bug.
So this can be looked upon as solved!

Nevertheless thanks for your support!!!

Ludger

Bonjour Pierre,
where can I find some documentation on changes/new features you implemented?

If Michel hadn't given the tip to use %input% to prompt for an input I havn't had the chance to try and use it. Then it's just guessing ...
The pages you linked to didn't give any further info ...

Bonjour Michel,
I tried %input% (without { }) and this worked!

For the test I configured an entry with Exiftool as the program and %input% -K as the argument. Then I used this entry with Open with ... and entered -software="Test" at the prompt of the input box. After doing this I checked the Exif ...

This would be a great feature but I can't get it working (xnView MP 1.63 on Windows 11) ...
How is it implemented? Is it {%input_box}???

Best regards
Ludger

Merci beaucoup Michel!

With your help my problem to call exiftool with some parameters is solved! Thank you very much - merci!
The problem in my case was that the path contained some spaces. :?

Your solution with Metadata|Transfer works as well but is less convenient for me.

My (additional ...

Do be more precise: What I want to know is whether any placeholders/variables can be used as an argument for calling an external program?! I can't find any documentation for that.
I found something general about placeholders in the wiki but that didn't work. For example {Folder} is treated as a ...

Merci Michel!!!
That helped a lot. I got exiftool working together with XnViewMP as I intended.

The key was that I didn't had the idea to double click the arguments column to add a parameter! Help (?) isn't working in that dialogue :(

Just in case I need to pass a parameter to let's say a batch ...

Hi,
from the Tools|Open with ... menu I want to call exiftool with the selected photo to chang some exif information. Therefore I created a little batch file to call exiftool.exe. Parameter %1 is the name of the selected photo. But what I need is the Path to the photo as well.

Is there a chance to ...