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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, if
The Unarchiver is installed. 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.
- 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.
- Effortlessly copy, move, rename and delete of images while viewing.
- View more EXIF data for JPEG files than Preview.
- View images in full-screen.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.0:
- Finally a universal binary!
- However, Xee now requires Mac OS X 10.4. Users of 10.3 can still use
Xee 1.2.1 (http://wakaba.c3.cx/releases/mac/old/Xee1.2.1.zip).
- Smoother display of scaled-down images, using the graphics hardware.
- Support for EXIF data.
- Rotation and cropping for all image types, with lossless saving for JPEGs, even
when cropped. However, JPEGs are no longer automatically saved when rotating - use the
menu option or Command-S to save.
- Tracks changes to the filesystem and updates file lists accordingly.
- Can sort images by name, date or size, and sorts in the same order as the Finder
by default.
- Slideshow support.
- Support for Maya IFF images.
- Many interface tweaks.
- Massive internal rewrites, fixing lots of bugs, and hopefully not introducing too many
new ones.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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| Xee User Reviews (42 posts) | Write A Review |
 | 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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 | 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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| Oct 15 2007 |
MAGENTIS I love Xee, it does exactly what it was designed to do and it does it well. I only have a few small issues. 1. There's no option to turn off sound effects. That delete Sfx becomes terribly annoying if you use it often. 2. It doen't remember window size. 3. It begins to slow down greatly with a lot (600+) of pictures in a single folder.
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| Sep 13 2007 |
MACHSPEED5 love this application!!! thank you dev. best viewer on the mac!!! shift-space = backward
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