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DESCRIPTION
Xee is a lightweight, fast and convenient image viewer and browser.
It is designed to be a serious tool for image viewing and management,
with a sleek and powerful interface.
Xee is useful as a more powerful replacement for Preview, or most any other
image viewer available on Mac OS X. It is very fast, and uses less
memory than most other image viewing tools. It also uses OpenGL to display
and scroll images much more smoothly than other viewers. Its interface is
highly streamlined and has easily configurable keyboard shortcuts.
Xee can:
- Display a large number of image formats - any format QuickTime or Preview
can open, plus several more, including PCX, Maya IFF and Amiga IFF-ILBM.
- Easy browse through folders of images - open any file in a
folder and use the toolbar, keyboard shortcuts or mouse wheel to
view the other images in the same folder.
- Browse image inside archives, using the uncompression engine from
The Unarchiver. It can read almost every format
The Unarchiver can, which include Zip, Rar, 7-Zip, Lzh and StuffIt. It also
supports the CBZ and CBR formats, which are just renamed Zip and Rar files,
respectively.
- Effortlessly copy, move, rename and delete of images while viewing.
- Losslessy rotate and crop JPEG images. This lets you edit your
digital photographs without losing quality by re-compressing them like
most other editors do.
- View more EXIF data for JPEG files than Preview, and also other kinds of
metadata, like XMP or IPTC. It can even try to identify what program or
camera created a JPEG file by analyzing its quantization tables.
- Extract bitmap images from inside PDF and SWF files. Many PDF files contain
scanned pages in bitmap form, and Xee can read these and show them as
bitmap image, and even save them. The same goes for bitmap images inside
SWF files.
- View images in full-screen.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.1:
- Support for viewing the unix PNM, XBM, and XPM formats, and also Dreamcast PVR.
- Support for reading bitmap images from inside SWF and PDF files. These can
also be saved as normal image files. (Note that this does not mean you can
view normal PDF files! Only bitmap images will be shown.)
- Support for more metadata formats: Photoshop, XMP and IPTC. Also support
for simple image forensics: Xee can analyze the quantization tables in a
JPEG image and look up what programs or cameras might have created it from
a database.
- Translations into Czech and Simplified Chinese.
- Uncompression engine from The Unarchiver included in the app, so
The Unarchiver no longer needs to be installed to read files from archives.
- Support for reading files from archive and PDFs that require passwords.
- Better support for Photoshop files.
- Many interface bugfixes and tweaks. The image list should now also
update properly when reading files on network shares and FAT drives.
- Some crashes related to broken EXIF data fixed.
- Faster directory scanning.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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| Xee User Reviews (44 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Nov 23 2009 |
KALUNLAU Would love to use this as my main image viewer due to it's speed, but the lack of colour profile support kills it for me.
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| Nov 21 2009 |
THUS.SPAKE.Z Xee is an admirable little image viewing app....so is JustLooking; I use both, each have their own strong points. But then, I have to say, Preview is no slouch either; it does quite a respectable job of viewing both pics AND PDFs. Niether Xee or JustLooking can handle PDFs. For PDFs the oustanding 'Skim' is the way to go, it's far slicker than Adobe Reader I think.
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| Nov 7 2009 |
THUS.SPAKE.Z Preview a horrible PDF viewer? How so? Preview is quite adequate for all practical purposes, IMO.
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| Nov 7 2009 |
THUS.SPAKE.Z Was intended as a reply to "Pixiemotion" below.
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| Nov 21 2009 |
DR.APP I can't say for Snow Leopard but at least up to Leopard, Xee feels actually faster than Preview in rendering the pics and, most importantly to me, I CAN CONTROL THE ANTIALIASING. If you use Preview for serious pictures there's no way to tell if something is sharp or not.
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 | Sep 25 2009 |
PIXIEMOTION You seriously read PDF's in Preview? Preview is a horrible PDF reader... I wouldn't be able to survive a mac if it weren't for Skim...
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 | Sep 14 2009 |
Everytime I set XEE as my default picture viewer (instead of preview) it works fine but after rebooting Preview automatically becomes my defualt picture viewer again!! I downloaded RCDefault to fix it but even there all my preferences (JPG, BMP etc) dissappear for Xee after rebooting............ Been trying for almost a day now............please help!! Not a Clue.
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 | Sep 10 2009 |
VECTORPANDA just as i gave 5 stars to the dev's other app (the unarchiver), i'll give 5 stars to this one. blazing fast, tonnes of customisable keyboard shortcuts, and ACTUALLY PLAYS ANIMATED GIF89a, unlike preview. if the printing/PDF thing bothers you, just use mac finder to associate PDFs wtih preview.app, and everything else with xee.
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| Aug 3 2008 |
CHUCKK As a graphics viewer, Xee is just one among a large field. Where is really excels as a Comic Book reader/viewer. One of the best way to view .cbr and .cbz achieves that are used to digitize comic books. Minimal memory footprint, simple controls, fast, etc. And the price is right. Nice to have a view that does not require achieves to be open and close using another program.
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| Jul 15 2008 |
&&&&&&&&&&&&& hmmm... it's an interesting wee app and has some useful features but i think the developer's claims that xee is a 'more powerful replacement for preview' are slightly wide of the mark, given that xee has no print menu and cannot open PDFs. both of which the 'underpowered' preview seems to manage OK.
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| Apr 23 2009 |
MODINGO I was very impressed when I first launched this app. I immediately noticed that it had some of the missing features not included in Apple's Preview app and also noticed a few GUI improvements over Preview. I couldn't understand why this wasn't every Mac user's "bread & butter" image viewer. I was wondering why I hadn't even heard about it until today. But then it after a few more seconds of tinkering...it all became so clear. As impressed as I was in the beginning, I was as equally unimpressed when I noticed the lack of PDF handling and conversion. I was then utterly horrified to see that there were no Page Setup, Print or Print Preview commands. Now that's got to be a first for any Mac app of this nature that I've used. OK, OK...maybe utterly horrified is a bit strong.
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| Jul 3 2008 |
CHADNCHADY Good program. But can someone confirm if the contrast of the pictures are slightly darker than that viewed by 'preview' on the mac??
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| Nov 12 2007 |
PETERPANCUPCAKES best viewer. better than quickview for me because it has keyboard shortcuts. note: full screen not working in leopard so looking forward to an update!
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 | Feb 11 2008 |
WAHA.06X36 The update you want is OS X 10.5.2. This was caused by an Apple bug, and they finally fixed it.
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