Information: Options for better readability

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Information: Options for better readability

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Help for Show information wrote:This option enables overlaying text information on displayed image. Information is used only on display, it is NOT written to image file.
Help for Text setting wrote:You can choose font, background color and location for information text.
Hello Pierre, please, can you add transparency for background color or font shadowing for better readability? (Options: Options/View/Fulscreen/Show information/Text settings)
Example from cam2pc:
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Example from xnview:
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I use the latest XnView version in the Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center.
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Post by ckit »

Good idea, not sure if I would ever use it but I like it :)
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Good idea indeed,
and I surely would use this feature !!


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Post by Dreamer »

Similar idea for the same problem:

http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?t=2173
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Dreamer wrote:Similar idea for the same problem: http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?t=2173
I am sorry for duplicity, but my searching for any previous suggestion for this problem was unsuccessful. On other side it is good to remind this problem again after more than 3 years.
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Post by helmut »

+1 Currently it's really hard to read without background and a non-transparent background doesn't look that nice.
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Easy for old eyes…

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:arrow: jis

:) Hello !

• Yes, it's good to ring the bell again sometimes… ;)

- I support, I like the example from cam2pc above.

:mrgreen: KR
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We vote here for adding transparency for background color or font shadowing for better readability of text information in fullscreen mode...

Hello Pierre, may I ask you:
Is this hard to implemented or it only have not priority on your todo list?
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jis wrote:We vote here for adding transparency for background color or font shadowing for better readability of text information in fullscreen mode...
+1, like into the MP version.
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Post by Dreamer »

jis wrote:Hello Pierre, may I ask you:
Is this hard to implemented or it only have not priority on your todo list?
I'm waiting for a similar feature more than 3 years, so it's probably not easy to implement, but also the good news. :)
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Dreamer wrote:I'm waiting for a similar feature more than 3 years, so it's probably not easy to implement, but also the good news. :)
Hiljaa hyvää tulee, as we Finns say. :mrgreen:
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ckv wrote:Hiljaa hyvää tulee, as we Finns say. :mrgreen:
No swearing, please! (j/k;-)
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Dreamer wrote:
jis wrote:Hello Pierre, may I ask you:
Is this hard to implemented or it only have not priority on your todo list?
I'm waiting for a similar feature more than 3 years, so it's probably not easy to implement, but also the good news. :)
No not easy in win32, no text alpha support
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Opacity must be only on brackground color? Or on background color & text?
XnViewMP make opacity on background color & text for example...
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