XnView Software

You SAVE the picture, so the quality is changed. You must edit it in browser mode to do that in lossless mode...

Why only browser mode? The IPTC edit should work in any display mode with lossless saving of the picture. This is my opinion.

The things I described in my example above can happen to ...

If you edit IPTC data in the view or fullscreen mode (not browser mode) you are forced to save the whole picture newly when changing to the next picture.

Here is an example. Say your XnView quality default for writing JPG pictures ist 10 %. Now take a JPG picture which quality is 100 %. Edit the ...

xnview wrote:It's normal, editing IPTC in view mode doesn't change original file...

What you say is right, but what version 1.822 does is wrong, it wants to change the original file.

If you edit IPTC data in the view or fullscreen mode (not browser mode) you are forced to save the whole picture newly when changing to the next picture.

Here still another ergonomic aspect to IPTC dialog: After first tapping on the Tab key the cursor should stand on the input field for IPTC ...

In Batch Convert you can't rotate a picture by a floating point angle until now

A very little suggestion for the view mode window: Why can't drag a picture by clicking on its Tab and drop it into another folder or application? (of course not allowed for the browser-tab)

The pre/post cache is switched on and I am in the view mode: I now manipulate a picture for example with the effects but don't want to save it, so I click to the next picture. XnView now asks me if I want to store the last picture and I say No. Now I go back to the last picture. What I see is is the ...

In the fullscreen mode you can edit IPTC-information by using the shortcut CTRL+I. But after closing the editor the information is not updated in the info-line of the fullscreen.

If you try to rename a single file in the <search results> the action is refused by an "error renaming the file ..."

It is very nice that the handling of the <search results> is revised in Version 1.80.2 but unfortunately there is a defect in the linking of the thumbnails.

If you make a double-click on an <search result>-thumbnail to show the picture in the view mode a wrong picture is displayed.

It would be nice to have the option to show some essential IPTC and EXIF information in the browser detail list - and also in the status bar of the view window.

xnview wrote:No 256 colors means 256 colors with colormap

I think you are right. May be someone else in the forum has this problems with the TWAIN Epson Scan 2.56 ?

So perhaps normal, jpeg can only save grey or truecolors picture, and your TWAIN driver return perhaps a colormap picture...

No, I don't think so, because after the picture is imported from TWAIN the statusbar of XnView showes 256 colors. That means that XnView knows that this is a grey picture ...

If I scan a gray-scale picture (8 bit) with TWAIN and then tell XnView to save it, a menu opens to convert the color mode of the picture - by default into 24 bit color. For me this convertion menu should not be standard because it is unnecessary. It gets on my nerves after every scan. The color mode ...

But what function do the black up and down arrow buttons in the batch rename menu have if not to sort the pictures in a different sequence?