XnView Software

Old thread (2003 to 2006): http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?t=184

http://xnview.com/en/formats.html

Windows & Aldus Metafile wmf (Unix : wmftogif required)
Windows Enhanced Metafile emf (Windows only)

Questions:

1. Does XN / NC / Pierre's lib have native code to support those formats ...

> Add text diagonally

> I'm attempting to add text on top of a picture and am wondering whether it's
> possible to place the text block diagonally across, say, the top half of the picture?

Sure it is possible, it's just painful ...

> Create seperate image of text, rotate it, and use it along with ...

he seems to add examples ... some are really convincing now

I can't find any new examples, but the old ones are very sufficient (PNG is preferred, JPG is lossy, while AGIF is palettized). Still the page is being updated and bug-fixed as necessary.

The only way around in XnView seems to be the ...

> Try to load the print-driver "PDFCreator"

maybe this will "work" ... it just needs and uses the original Office to do the hard work

converting doc to jpg

You can't really convert DOC (document, similar applies to DOCX, PDF, ODF, CHM, ...). to JPG (bitmap).

What one could do, is:

1. Create a BITMAP from every page of a document (or one long bitmap of all pages). But it would be a very difficult task. Why? DOC and Co are very ...

I think webp is a bad idea. There are already several JPG replacement formats floating around (jpeg 2000, hdphoto/jpeg-xr for example), and none are getting very widespread support yet (jp2k's the best supported, but it's been around for many years now & seems likely to die a quiet death).

JPEG ...

Not sure if I should put this information here. If not, Admin, please delete it.

We are not in China here ;-)

http://www.kylinworks.com/products/PNGConverter/PNGConverter.php
Apple changed format of the PNG files, most software in Mac or Windows cannot view them.

They didn't change anything ...

To be more verbose, for all 3 examples given, in XN 1.97.7 the APNG animation runs but looks very messy ( http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=441971 fine in Firefox 4.0b5)

Seeker wrote:I want to merge many images, but I can't find that command.
I want good method...
thanks.

There is AFAIK no such feature in NCONVERT (as of 5.75), and I miss it too (besides 8 bppc -> 16 bppc upgrade).

> It's way better then the old java converter that could only do 8bit->32bit conversions,
> which almost always meant bigger file.
> gif2apng can do 8bit->8bit conversions, and usually makes files smaller than the originals.

XN 1.97.4 can't display them ... FF 4.0b1 can ... also I got smaller ...

forgot to make specific rules about what kind of information is forbidden in third-party chunks. Without such rules, I could embed mp3

Good point (they had prohibited animations, still) :-|

Right, but if it's clearly broken, it would be unanimous no.

Let's wait what they say to Apple's "PNG ...

APNG is NOT PNG. It also breaks the PNG spec No it's not. PNG specs allows third-party chunks extensions. If a third-party follows those chunk-naming rules, you cannot accuse them of breaking anything.

They tried to do it "legally and smoothly" but still APNG breaks the purpose of PNG "to store a ...

we really shouldn't support people who break formats.

Right. If they want a new format, they should:

1. Make sure that it's sufficiently superior to existing formats, otherwise there is no point to invent it (similar applies to other "new" stuff like video codecs)

2. Give it a new name ...

Olivier_G wrote:

DOS386 wrote:Does the world really need one more proprietary videoformat codec ?

I think the world/market/manufacturers has already chosen.

Theora has had HD support (up to 1'048'576 pixels per dimension) for years and nobody noticed, so this "news" is and never was new

Try this one. Use PNG or BMP format for the screenshot.

> Pls download it

Done!

> in XnView

Done! No problem.

> and windows explorer

NOT done, I won't touch this one, sorry.