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Why does XnView MP thumbnails look worse than the XnView Classic thumbnails?
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 4:09 pm
by electro1
I decided to give it a try again to XnView MP after a few years but I'm disappointed that the thumbnails in the browser (same size 256x256 pixels; high quality thumbnails enabled in MP) look blurry and worse than the XnView Classic thumbnails. Does that happen to anyone else? Is the dev aware of this bug/resize issue?
See for yourself (e.g. pay attention to the pic 0017.jpg):
XnView Classic vs
XnView MP
Re: Why does XnView MP thumbnails look worse than the XnView Classic thumbnails?
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 4:39 pm
by xnview
what do you have in Settings>Catalog - Width/height & compression?
Re: Why does XnView MP thumbnails look worse than the XnView Classic thumbnails?
Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 5:04 pm
by electro1
xnview wrote: Mon Feb 15, 2021 4:39 pm
what do you have in Settings>Catalog - Width/height & compression?
I disabled the catalog. There are the default settings.
Edit: after enabling the catalog and setting the thumbnail size as 256x256 / JPEG Lossy High Quality they look sharper.
Re: Why does XnView MP thumbnails look worse than the XnView Classic thumbnails?
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2021 8:51 am
by xnview
electro1 wrote: Mon Feb 15, 2021 5:04 pm
I disabled the catalog. There are the default settings.
No, it is enabled by default...
If you have same settings in Classic & MP, the thumbnails are the same
Re: Why does XnView MP thumbnails look worse than the XnView Classic thumbnails?
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2021 11:09 pm
by electro1
xnview wrote: Tue Feb 16, 2021 8:51 am
electro1 wrote: Mon Feb 15, 2021 5:04 pm
I disabled the catalog. There are the default settings.
No, it is enabled by default...
If you have same settings in Classic & MP, the thumbnails are the same
I meant those settings (thumbnail size) from that page except Catalog enabling are default. Thanks for help.
Re: Why does XnView MP thumbnails look worse than the XnView Classic thumbnails?
Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2025 5:42 am
by sachinmamtora
here i found the solution.
which is works awesome for me here.
1. Open XnView MP. then go to Tools\settings\Catalog\ unchek Enable Catalog.
2. Close XnView MP.
3. goto "C:\Users\your user\AppData\Roaming\XnViewMP\xnview.ini" open this file with notepad.
4. find useEmbeddedThumb=true to useEmbeddedThumb=false. save and exit.
5 open XnView MP. then Tools\settings\Thumbnil\appearance\ custom thumnil size to width: 512 and Height: 512. then clock ok then again cole software and start again.
yeeyi your thumnil works fine.
if you read this Xn view. please fix this into next version.
