IrfanView & PaintShop Pro files

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Terry Pinnell

I still have a lot of .PSP files, from the time when I used to make
greater use of PaintShop Pro than I do nowadays. IV opens these on a
d-click, but does not display them in its browser.

Is that a design limitation, or a setting I've missed please?
 
Terry Pinnell said:
I still have a lot of .PSP files, from the time when I used to make
greater use of PaintShop Pro than I do nowadays. IV opens these on a
d-click, but does not display them in its browser.

Is that a design limitation, or a setting I've missed please?
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If you remember Terry, PSP can do batch conversion. So you could do batches,
to a format that IV can use. HTH.
bw..OJ
 
Terry Pinnell:
I still have a lot of .PSP files, from the time when I used to make
greater use of PaintShop Pro than I do nowadays. IV opens these on a
d-click, but does not display them in its browser.

Is that a design limitation, or a setting I've missed please?
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what versions of IrfanView and Paint Shop Pro do you have?

I can open and see PSP 5.03 pictures with IV 3.97. I have installed
the "all_plugins.zip" (or alike) from the IV homepage, though. Maybe
its included with that package?


Viele Grüße,
Sascha
 
old jon said:
If you remember Terry, PSP can do batch conversion. So you could do batches,
to a format that IV can use. HTH.
bw..OJ
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Thanks. Funnily enough, that's what I did earlier this evening! As I
can't browse the PSPs in IV, I batch converted them all in PSP8 to
JPG. Great minds... (?)
 
Sascha Wostmann said:
Terry Pinnell:


what versions of IrfanView and Paint Shop Pro do you have?

I can open and see PSP 5.03 pictures with IV 3.97.
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Thanks, yes, me too; but can you *browse* their thumbnails?
 
Terry Pinnell:
Thanks, yes, me too; but can you *browse* their thumbnails?
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Yes, if that is what you mean by "browse":

I have a directory with JPG and PSP files mixed. I doubleclick on an
arbitrary file within that directory. IV opens and shows this picture.
I chose (german IV) "Datei -> Thumbnails" (shortcut "T") and get a new
window with all the pictures as small thumb.

If you mean something else, please define.



Viele Grüße,
Sascha
 
Sascha Wostmann said:
Terry Pinnell:


Yes, if that is what you mean by "browse":

I have a directory with JPG and PSP files mixed. I doubleclick on an
arbitrary file within that directory. IV opens and shows this picture.
I chose (german IV) "Datei -> Thumbnails" (shortcut "T") and get a new
window with all the pictures as small thumb.

If you mean something else, please define.
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Thanks. Yes, that's exactly what I mean too. But here the psp
thumbnails are not shown in IV Thumbnails View.

In a My Computer or Explorer window, using Thumbnails view, they are
not shown as images, but they are at least included as 'general'
icons. The .psp types have the IV 'jigsaw piece' icon, and the
..pspimage have the PSP8 'painters palette' icon. (Perhaps there is a
clue there?)

Me too! To be sure, I've just re-installed the file
irfanview_plugins_397.exe
and that has made no difference.

Would you mind checking via Help > Installed Plugins please? I have 47
lines, and the only apparently relevant one (containing the string
'psp') is the 17th line:

FORMATS.DLL 3.97 G3 RAS BioRAD DDS PSP Mosaic XBM XPM GEM-IMG
WBMP SGI/RGB Utah-RLE TTF RAW (CRW CR2 NEF RAF ORF MRW ERF DCR SRF
 
I had this useful advice elsewhere:

To see PSP thumbnails in Windows Explorer, please see:
http://www.botproductions.com/pspthumb/

I duly installed that fw, and can now at least see PSP files in My
Computer windows. Having impulsively zapped all my PSPs yesterday, I
had to make a couple of new ones to test it, and it works fine. Good
progress. Now, if I can only get IV to show them too <g>.
 
Terry said:
In a My Computer or Explorer window, using Thumbnails view, they are
not shown as images,
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the same here. They get a standard PSP icon, IIRC. Double clicking
opens the files in PSP5 (i have a licensed 5.03 version at home)
but they are at least included as 'general'
icons. The .psp types have the IV 'jigsaw piece' icon, and the
.pspimage have the PSP8 'painters palette' icon. (Perhaps there is a
clue there?)
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so you use PSP8, is that right? I have the trial of PSP7 at work and IV
shows the thumbs for all the available file formats (PSP5, PSP6, PSP7).
Would you mind checking via Help > Installed Plugins please? I have 47
lines, and the only apparently relevant one (containing the string
'psp') is the 17th line:

FORMATS.DLL 3.97 G3 RAS BioRAD DDS PSP Mosaic XBM XPM GEM-IMG
WBMP SGI/RGB Utah-RLE TTF RAW (CRW CR2 NEF RAF ORF MRW ERF DCR SRF
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looks similar, I haven't checked all the formats, though. On
www.irfanview.com it says:
FORMATS - (version 3.97): allows IrfanView to read
some rare image formats.
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Would you mind sending me one of your not shown images, the address is
(e-mail address removed), maybe it's a problem within the file?

If everything else fails, you could contact the author asking for help.

Sascha
 
the same here. They get a standard PSP icon, IIRC. Double clicking
opens the files in PSP5 (i have a licensed 5.03 version at home)


so you use PSP8, is that right?
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Yes. I have both PSP7 & 8. The PSPs that don't show up in IV browser
cover both versions.
I have the trial of PSP7 at work and IV
shows the thumbs for all the available file formats (PSP5, PSP6, PSP7).


looks similar, I haven't checked all the formats, though. On
www.irfanview.com it says:


Would you mind sending me one of your not shown images, the address is
(e-mail address removed), maybe it's a problem within the file?
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As mentioned, I batch converted all my many previous PSPs to JPG and
zapped the PSPs. I made a couple of new ones for testing during these
discussions. Here's one:
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Images/TestFromPSP8.psp
If everything else fails, you could contact the author asking for help.
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Yes, did that same time I first posted here. Irfan normally replies,
but sometimes it's a week or so.

I've just discovered that the test image doesn't even *display* in IV.
The earlier ones that did must have been 'flat, no layer' types,
whereas the test has a text layer on a white background. All IV shows
is the white. (But don't even get that in Thumbnail view).
 
Terry Pinnell:
As mentioned, I batch converted all my many previous PSPs to JPG and
zapped the PSPs. I made a couple of new ones for testing during these
discussions. Here's one:
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Images/TestFromPSP8.psp
Click to expand...

I see a white paper, 800x900 pixels. I can't open it with my PSP5, so
I don't know if thats really the way it should look like. But it also
shows this white plane in thumbnail view.
I've just discovered that the test image doesn't even *display* in IV.
The earlier ones that did must have been 'flat, no layer' types,
whereas the test has a text layer on a white background. All IV shows
is the white. (But don't even get that in Thumbnail view).
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same here. No text.


Viele Grüße,
Sascha
 
same here. No text.
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I created a two layer picture in PSP7,
then I downloaded the example picture from Terry.

Total Commander with its built-in thumbnail view had no problems
with my own psp file, I see both layers in the thumbnail.

Terry's picture is shown as a bright white background with
red text along the upper side. My PSP7 could not open
the file, so I could not check if the thumbnail looks like
the picture.
 
I created a two layer picture in PSP7,
then I downloaded the example picture from Terry.
Click to expand...
Total Commander with its built-in thumbnail view had no problems
with my own psp file, I see both layers in the thumbnail.
Click to expand...
Terry's picture is shown as a bright white background with
red text along the upper side. My PSP7 could not open
the file, so I could not check if the thumbnail looks like
the picture.
Click to expand...

I had a few video clips in the same folder and I was surprised
to see TC showing thumbnails of the video clips too.

I found out that the thumbnail it shows is a picture from
the middle of the clip, which is very good idea.

I tried it on a dir with many video clips, and it was rather
slow to create thumbnails for video, one per second.

I tried scrolling while it was creating thumbnails, and it
reacted perfectly, it started creating thumbnails for the videos
I had scrolled down to.

After TC has built its index it is immediate in its response.

I can see the content of any folder as thumbnails, it even
shows text files as text on a paper, whenever
I want to, and I can configure the viewer acticated by a
doubleclick, Irfanview or XnView, and add other tools, graphic editors,

in the rightclick menu in windows. The Send-to and Open-with
menues you get by rightclicking and holding for a second
in TC. Or drag-n-drop file to PSP or Pixia in the toolbar in TC.

My search for the perfect thumbnail viewer is over, it is
built into my favorite file manager TC.

Firegraphic 6 showed one thumbnail for the first folder,
and it was the PSP7 file I had created.
 
I tried latest version of XnView, ver 1.80.1

It compares quite well to the earlier quick
thumbnail viewers. Firegraphic and TC.

It could show my psp7 picture but not Terry's picture.

It does video clips too, but half of the thumbnails are faulty
with some green color on the thumbnails.

It has a built-in video viewer which shows a small video window.
It works so so, but froze when fed a 6 MB avi file.

No, wait, it wakes up again, it works.

XnView is very good for images, not so good for videos.
 
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