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Re: 0.84: How to destroy your manually entered image's metad
Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 12:12 pm
by cday
helmut wrote:xnview wrote:... So you would like that i add a new section 'Formats' in Settings (before 'Integration'), right?
I'd prefer if the category for format settings would be more at the top. In XnView Classic these settings are in
General » Read/Write.
Yes...
I think the present situation can be summarised as follows:
o The current location of format settings [only] in
Viewer | File > Format settings... is not intuitive and unsatisfactory, it is in effect well-hidden there.
o Adding format settings to the
Tools > Options... > Read/Write menu as in XnView Classic is very desirable.
o For practical reasons, it would be desirable also to temporarily maintain the current
Viewer | File > Format settings... location as well, if that is possible.
o It remains
very desirable to add direct access to format settings from
File > Save as... , as is normal in other software, as soon as the previously stated limitation in Qt can be overcome...
Re: 0.84: How to destroy your manually entered image's metad
Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 1:06 pm
by helmut
cday wrote:helmut wrote:xnview wrote:... So you would like that i add a new section 'Formats' in Settings (before 'Integration'), right?
I'd prefer if the category for format settings would be more at the top. In XnView Classic these settings are in
General » Read/Write.
Yes...
I think the present situation can be summarised as follows:
o The current location of format settings [only] in
Viewer | File > Format settings... is not intuitive and unsatisfactory, it is in effect well-hidden there.
o Adding format settings to the
Tools > Options... > Read/Write menu as in XnView Classic is very desirable.
o For practical reasons, it would be desirable also to temporarily maintain the current
Viewer | File > Format settings... location as well, if that is possible.
o It remains
very desirable to add direct access to format settings from
File > Save as... , as is normal in other software, as soon as the previously stated limitation in Qt can be overcome...
Good summary, cday. I second every single point.
Re: 0.84: Image's metadata lost when saving
Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2017 3:18 pm
by helmut
@Pierre: Above summary describes detailed steps to improve things and avoid unwanted loss of metadata. Could you please check and see which improvements you can implemented?
Re: 0.84: Image's metadata lost when saving
Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 3:19 pm
by xnview
helmut wrote:@Pierre: Above summary describes detailed steps to improve things and avoid unwanted loss of metadata. Could you please check and see which improvements you can implemented?
there is some improvements in 0.85 beta 1