XnView Software

I like XnView, because it's free and slim. ACDSee and others are full of strange features. These Programms want to tell me where I have to print my pictures on the internet. I often can't change the thubnail-website presets. Other free programms install strange toolbars and extentions for ...

any news?

Now I made better tests. The problem is the ICC support.

Test scenario:
7000x7000 pixel, RGB 8-bit, Photoshop add noise 100%, ECI-RGB, uncompressed tiff, 140MB

XnView blocks when it tries to preload this file, when the ICC support is enabled. If it is disabled I can cancel the loading process ...

I tried uncompressed Tiffs instead of LZW compressed and the loading process is much faster.

But still the lowres preview and the ability to cancel the loading process are much better in acdsee.

I am handling large images and XnView is awfully slow presenting them in fullscreen.

When I enable the preload function i cant do anything until the second image is loaded. It would be nice if I could interrupt the loading process by pressing escape. (killing a separate low-priority loading thread ...