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Yes it looks like it is completely fixed in V1.8.6.
Thank you.

I have tried several times, two browsers, to download the windows x64 setup for version 1.8.6.

12 hours ago it was very slow and got to ~53MB before reporting a failed download. Now it is rapidly getting the same 55MB file (same checksum, but disagrees with value reported on https://newsgroup ...

XnViewMP: 1.8.3 - 64 bit - I came across this in V1.8.2 and it has remained after upgrade to 1.8.3
OS:Windows 10 x64

When putting a drop-shadow onto text, the controls produce unexpected behaviour:
There may be two bugs here, but they seem very closely related

To reproduce:
1. take any plain image ...

I removed the heif.dll plugin from xnviewmp folder (it was 2017 version!). restarted xnviewmp.

??? the new heif.dll is 2020


Yes, I have no idea why the old file was still there (or where it originally came from). I used the x64 install for xnviewmp 0.97 and previous ones.

Maybe I just ...

I have observed a similar problem with a set of HEIC images.

On initially browsing to a folder with maybe 50 images, trying to open an image will instead open in the separate heic viewer program.

After the thumbnails are completed , then trying to open the image gives an error message box from ...

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Have converted all the HEIC files at once to PNG. Strangely, 1.5Mo size files become 10Mo PNG file... much larger!


That is probably because you are processing real-world photographs, which PNG is not suited to. JPEG would be a much better option.
The lossy compression in jpeg and heic ...

[*] exif data is missing. - temporary solution below

yes, currently not supported
I thought that was the case, which is why I offered the workaround using exiftool in case anybody else could make use of it.



[*]It is very slow - not sure this is a problem with xnviewMP or the plugin, or ...

I just installed the x64 heif plugin with XnViewMP 0.95 on window 10.
I also installed the windows 10 support at the same time.

I exported the .heic image files as jpeg and there are a couple of issues:

exif data is missing. - temporary solution below
It is very slow - not sure this is a ...

... 'base path' should not be changed after scanning folders.

It is a simple sql one-liner to update any old folders where the basepath has already been stored in full in pathnames.

At a minimum, users should be warned that there are nn folders containing the new base path and this may cause ...

The good news is that I can no longer reproduce any of the previous problems.
I am not sure how thoroughly I could test things, since there are a large number of permutations, but the issues I reported seem to be fixed.

The not quite so good news is that there might have been another bug introduced ...

Works well.

A minor change to the English wording ...
should say "Open last opened tab"

Alternatively, the following might be slightly clearer:
"Reopen at last opened tab"

But what is the use of "Apply" button ?

A good question. I have edited this reply, since my original comment was wrong.
"Apply" saved your changes in the program's internal copy of the image metadata. You can even view one image next or previous and the changes are still there, but not yet saved ...

[*]I created a base path that was one folder down my tree : E:/Photos/Australia . None of these had already been scanned into the DB.
[*] search with "use catalog", starting at E:/Photos for an entry in the caption finds the one outside the base path, but not the one within the

Ok, right ...

I have just tested 0.93 beta1 that Pierre sent me.

Summary :

The new bug reported by michel038 (nothing is found by search "using catalog") has been fixed
The problem with base path still exists - with slight differences from my first report.


Edit: Update - I have also copied v0.93b1 over ...

I don't know if this bug was fixed, but there is a new bug in V0.92

Searches are ok when selecting categories in "categories filter" tab, but the option "use catalog" in search function gives always 0 files found, even if base path has default value.

see
https://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic ...