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XCF layers not shown correctly
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2020 7:04 pm
by kentavv
With XnView MP 0.96.2 on Windows 10:
With multilayer Gimp XCF files: neither the visibility setting of a layer nor the layer's mask are respected when showing the image in XnView. The following video shows this. (It also shows that pressing Esc when in fullscreen mode creates a second thumbnail view of XnView.)
https://youtu.be/0u3wvWBBh-Q
Re: XCF layers not shown correctly
Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2020 1:14 pm
by xnview
could you send me a sample file?
Re: XCF layers not shown correctly
Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2020 1:15 am
by kentavv
Please find the example attached. The forum would not allow .xcf files so the expected png and the source xcf are in a zip file. Might need to do Crtl-H in XnView on the PNG file. The problem is present in 0.96.4. Let me know if I can help more. Thank you
Re: XCF layers not shown correctly
Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2020 12:43 pm
by xnview

Thanks to your detailed description I can reproduce
the problem.
Re: XCF layers not shown correctly
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 1:34 pm
by xnview
This problem is supposed to be fixed in
XnView MP 0.96.5. Please check and confirm the bug fix here.
Re: XCF layers not shown correctly
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 6:19 pm
by Gwenael Q.
Hello,
Seems that things are better but not yet perfect.
- Visibility toggle of layer is now properly handled in preview and viewer mode but not in thumbnail window
- Partial opacity is not well handled
Please note that displayed images in thumbnail and preview/viewer mode are very different.
Please find a little more complete exemple file attached.
thank you for listening
Version 0.96.5 64bits
Re: XCF layers not shown correctly
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 9:50 am
by xnview
when using 'use embedded thumbnail', it try to load the composed image data, not layers
Re: XCF layers not shown correctly
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 5:55 pm
by Gwenael Q.
I sincerelly don't understand
I went to "F12 > Thumbnails > Misc" then deactivated "Use embedded thumbnail ", then came back to the folder with the above xcf test file and did "View > rebuild thumbnails".
No changes. That seems logical to me.
What is not is :
it try to load the composed image data, not layers
Composed images should'nt be the "sum" (blending) of layers ??? So why should preview and thumbnail be different ?
Thank you for listening
0.97.0 x64 on windows 8.1 x64
Re: XCF layers not shown correctly
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 6:13 pm
by xnview
in XCF, you have a merged image (that i use for thumbnails)
Re: XCF layers not shown correctly
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 4:08 am
by Gwenael Q.
Hello Pierre,
I said previously :
"I went to "F12 > Thumbnails > Misc" then deactivated "Use embedded thumbnail ", then came back to the folder with the above xcf test file and did "View > rebuild thumbnails". No changes.
There were no changes because i had to add a
"View > refresh" step... (Couldn't this refresh be automatic when user does a rebuild thumbnails ?).
With this new step the thumbnail image changes and thumbnail, preview and view mode now display
the same thing wich is what is expected. Nevertheless, please note that the
partial transparency is not perfectly handled.
Lastly, if user has to deactivate embedded thumbnail to get the right display, does that means that the thumbnail is wrong and that something has to be fixed inside Gimp ?
Thank you for listening
Re: XCF layers not shown correctly
Posted: Sat May 21, 2022 12:39 am
by Gwenael Q.
Hello,
XCF files still not shown correctly with XnviewMP v1.0
Tested with the images of "Xnviewmp test 2.zip" linked above
Thanks for listening
Re: XCF layers not shown correctly
Posted: Mon May 23, 2022 11:56 am
by xnview
Gwenael Q. wrote: Sat May 21, 2022 12:39 am
XCF files still not shown correctly with XnviewMP v1.0
Like i said, i use the embedded preview to build thumbnail and not the full layers
Re: XCF layers not shown correctly
Posted: Mon May 23, 2022 11:02 pm
by Gwenael Q.
Hello,
So, like I said too :
if user has to deactivate embedded thumbnail to get the right display, does that means that the thumbnail is wrong and that something has to be fixed inside Gimp ?
Thanks for listening