xnview freezes on pdf

guest · Post by **guest** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 9:03 pm

xnview is very slow when dealing with pdf, i want to mouse wheel up/down through the pictures, but i want to only go through images, skipping all other files, how do i do this in 1.8?

i can't find the option to do this. help!

Clo · Post by **Clo** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 9:13 pm

Hello !

- You can disable *.PDF for the thumb-nail view : Options >>> Browser >>> Thumb-nails >> Tick the last box at the bottom of the page…
- You could attempt to remove the nick for Options >>> General >>> Startup >> “Use all formats available” if it's ticked.

Kind regards,
Claude
Clo

guest · Post by **guest** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 11:37 pm

nope, i tried both those, still tries to parse the pdf files

Dreamer · Post by **Dreamer** » Sun Jul 03, 2005 10:04 pm

guest wrote:nope, i tried both those, still tries to parse the pdf files

Options > Browser > Preview > Display PDF...

guest · Post by **guest** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:28 am

it's already unchecked (i checked and unchecked just in case).
this is starting to get irritating.

marsh · Post by **marsh** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 1:59 am

Xnview will always try to process PDFs either in tab view or standard fullscreen regardless of options selected. The new options can discourage them from being previewed or thumbnailed, but that is all. 'Scan file headers' must be on for PDFs to truly disappear from file list, but that can make problem worse because a user may browse their download directory without realizing PDFs are slowing them down. This problem does not happen with AVI files. Movies have a View>File list option. Perhaps a similar option for PDFs might help, or the ability to force Xnview to exclude certain file types.

Problem: PDFs are always in viewer's file list.

guest · Post by **guest** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 4:09 am

marsh wrote:Perhaps a similar option for PDFs might help, or the ability to force Xnview to exclude certain file types.

yes, xnview definitely need such an option, and preferably, make it only process images by default, well, it is an _image_ viewer

Clo · Post by **Clo** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 4:49 am

Guest

Hello !
- I suggested a solution here

Kind regards,
Claude
Clo

guest · Post by **guest** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 10:24 pm

well whatever the solution is, something needs to be implemented, are the developers reading this thread? i don't think they understand the severity of this problem, it basically makes it unuseable for normal image browsing w/o a lot of fustration.

Post by **helmut** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 10:43 pm

guest wrote:well whatever the solution is, something needs to be implemented, are the developers reading this thread? i don't think they understand the severity of this problem, it basically makes it unuseable for normal image browsing w/o a lot of fustration.

Developers (there is only one) will read this thread. Pierre is busy at the moment, this is why he does not join discussions, much.

i don't think they understand the severity of this problem, it basically makes it unuseable for normal image browsing w/o a lot of fustration.

The PDF exclusion issue has been addressed in 1.80. There is an option to exclude PDF files. If this option does not work, this is a bug (can anyone check this). If there is needed more to make this work well, this will be surely added, but first the exisiting option should be used.

Post by **xnview** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 9:35 am

guest wrote:well whatever the solution is, something needs to be implemented, are the developers reading this thread? i don't think they understand the severity of this problem, it basically makes it unuseable for normal image browsing w/o a lot of fustration.

Ok, for a 1.80.2, i'll add use of this option Options > Browser > Preview > Display PDF in view or fullscreen mode, i'll change this option later...

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