XnView Software

Both of these "create" functions are wonderful, and well designed. I have been able to do everything I want with them, and easily.

With one exception.

There appears to be no way to control the order in which images appear. If you have the time and inclination, perhaps you could use the same method for ordering images in these "create" operations as in the "create...slide show" operation. Or perhaps another ordering operation would be better.

But it would be nice to have SOME way to control the image order.

Thank you for the excellent program and good work.

Ty Griffin
San Luis Obispo, California

Having done a little more generation of web pages using this wonderful XnView feature (it makes a lot of work very very easy!), I have two other suggestions in addition to the earlier one about order:

2. Image Title: It would be nice if there were a way to give the image a title other than the file name, or at least to have the file name printed on the individual-image page without the extension. Seeing "XnView Logo" as the title would be great, but seeing "XnView Logo.jpg" is not so good.

3. If you can do that, then perhaps also you can have a text field to accept more information about the image (date, how I made it, where it came from, etc.). This info could then also be printed on the web page for the individual image.

Thank you.

Hi Ty,

2 & 3.
I think you can do all those things already. You can add text to the image, filename (with/without extention), image properties etc. If you explore the dialog for contactsheet (Create contact sheet), you'll find an option at the lower right side, called "show information". Activate it and choose the insert button to add information of your choise. You can mix between image properties, EXIF-data and IPTC-data, or your own texts. You're pretty much free to adjust the info exactly after you preferenses, it's very nice.

When it comes to the order of the images, I'm not sure, but I guess that the contact sheet is created by the order in the browser, so if you organise the images there, the same order should appear at the contact sheet.

Hi Troken,

Thanks for your tips, comments, feedback. I was focused on "create web pages" and forgot that I had implied also "create contact sheets." I see now that adding various pieces of info to contact sheets is easily done. There doesn't seem to be an equivalent for web pages, however. Or rather, you can add all the same info, but it gets added to the thumbnail aspect of the web page and not to the main page for the image in question.

As far as adjusting the order, I like your idea (of moving images into the directory order in which you want them to appear on the web page or contact sheet) but don't see how it's possible except by changing the filenames. Windows, as you know, seems to have a built-in bias for sorting everything into alphanumeric order, and XnView seems to do the same for the images displayed in its browser window.

Again, thanks for the comments.

Ty wrote: As far as adjusting the order, I like your idea (of moving images into the directory order in which you want them to appear on the web page or contact sheet) but don't see how it's possible except by changing the filenames. Windows, as you know, seems to have a built-in bias for sorting everything into alphanumeric order, and XnView seems to do the same for the images displayed in its browser window.

XnView is capabel of sorting images in more ways than alphanumeric order. The other choises are by extension, date, EXIF date, type, filesize, imagesize, description and comment. You can find those choises if you click the two green arrows (one pointing up, the other pointing down). In addition, you can sort ascending or descending. So there are quite a few ways to sort without renaming.

Ty wrote:Again, thanks for the comments.

You're welcome!

Thanks again, Troken.

I was being a little short-sighted. Of course XnView allows sorting by things other than filename. I guess what I meant was that I could not put them in the order I wanted; the order has to be some quantifiable thing--name, create date, size, etc. My situation is that I have a bunch of images that I want presented in a certain order on the page, and that order is not related to anything but esthetics. No big deal though.

Thanks again for your comments and suggestions.

Hello Ty,

hm, you're right, there is no way of sorting the images after your own choise, tried and the only solution I can come up with is renaming, just as you said.