XnView Software

i see references to it in some forums that it's missing in the MP (but i guess *was* in the classic). so i checked out the classic and i don't seem to see anything there either.

am i missing something?

EDIT: actually i see the option in classic (i downloaded and installed, but must have been doing something else because i had MP open and then thought that was the classic).

anyway, is there a plan to add this to MP at some point?

oweniverson wrote: anyway, is there a plan to add this to MP at some point?

yes

Up front..

Sofar I -never- created a contact sheet, so I did not know how to create one and alsod did not know that it wasn't / isn't available in MP.

Having MP installed, I went on to select the thumbnails, then used File->Print, adjusted rows/colums (in the preview), etc->then selected SnagIt as printer, which was -admittedly- a wild guess.
I used SnagIt hoping that it would then land into the SnagItEditor so to save it as png file.

Again a wild guess and -yes- I know now, definitely wrong.

Because what happened...
When doing the above it started an unbelievably heavy disk-activity.
After each click I tried, I had to wait for about 1 or 2 minutes(!) before something happened.
When using alt-ctrl-del to get to the task manager, after some time I got a black screen, with just a mouse arrow and after 1,5-2 minutes I got a warning that alt-ctrl-del was not available and I should use esc to return, which also took 1-2 minutes.
I tried rmb taskbar to get to the taskmanager, but that was successful after a few attempts only.

The heavy hd activity went on and on an on ..
Eventually after 25 minutes (I clocked it!) I again tried, rmb click taskbar and at 28 minutes, (yes, took 3 minutes! to finally reach the 'processes') I could finally kill xnview.exe.
At 29 minutes finally disk activities stopped.
During the activities a "C:\Windows\System32\spool\PRINTERS\FP00000.SPL" was created that started with just 64kb and in 151 steps ended in a spl file of 2.2GB which I then cud kill.

That was yesterday. Today I found
http://www.xnview.com/wiki/index.php/Contact_Sheet

But in the forum I noticed that this feature is not available in XnViewMP.

Used the portable XnView, regretfully there is no preview there, so I donot know how many sheets will be created.

Anyway, hopefully it will be available in MP, with a preview (similar to the printpreview)

Oh... I tried again, but now with output Acrobat PDF
and again, very heavy disk activities.
In the end I had switch off the pc (using the pwr button).
That is risky though, with many applications open.

So, better donot print thumbnails to a file.

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oweniverson wrote:i see references to it in some forums that it's missing in the MP (but i guess *was* in the classic). so i checked out the classic and i don't seem to see anything there either.

am i missing something?

EDIT: actually i see the option in classic (i downloaded and installed, but must have been doing something else because i had MP open and then thought that was the classic).

anyway, is there a plan to add this to MP at some point?

@oweniverson
as long as it is not yet available in MP and you dono wish to use the other XnView
then there is a free, portable, tool, called Snap2IMG (rlvision) that can create single sheets.
I am now running it in the background to create multiple sheets of thumbnails in subfolders.

As said, maybe this can be of used in the meantime of waiting for MP solution.

rgds

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