 | 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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| 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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| Aug 15 2007 |
SONGBIRD6 I tried a lot of image browsers and this became my favorite due to its simplicity and ease of use. It's all I need for an image browser. The only issue I have is, I wish when you rotate or resize a picture and return to using navigation buttons, that it would be the way you left it.
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| Aug 10 2007 |
TJCAD At first I like it because its simple and fast. I mainly use it for viewing images. The only thing I dont like, well that I HATE about this is that it screws up my default app. It kept on changing the default app for my rar, cbr, etc... You can't even unclick some of them. Every time I change it this app kept on changing it back. It acts like a spyware. Would it be ok if you change this behavior on the next release.
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| Sep 26 2007 |
WAHA.06X36 This is essentially an OS X bug. There is nothing that can be done about it. To work around, reassing filetypes with the finder (Get Info -> Change All)
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| Sep 28 2007 |
MINIMAL DESIGN The problem mentioned above has *nothing* to do with "spyware"... people should be a little more careful with what they say... This app is great and doesn't do anything even remotely related to privacy, it doesn't phone home, etc... And I personally haven't had any file association problem after using Xee for a year or so.
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| Jul 21 2007 |
MORJOVY works nice, but everytime i set the window in desired position it returns to the default state after i relaunch xee. i would like it to save the window state. thanks
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| May 8 2007 |
HENRIKTEKNIK I've had some bad experience with Xee lately, rendering images corrupted/non-readable by any program. For instance, I opened up some pictures that I had taken with my Pentax Optio WP "cheapo" digital camera, and I performed a 90 degrees clockwise rotation on a picture and then hit Command-S to save. When I reopened the same picture in Xee, Preview and all kinds of other programs, I get error messages saying something about the picture having wrong header info, or missing such. Glad to see some resolvement to this issue, as I think Xee is a wonderful application otherwise.
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| Jun 7 2007 |
LECTRICK I'm going to take a swag here and guess that your "cheapo" camera is not itself writing the jpeg file in an ideal fashion and this only makes itself evident when Xee tries to rotate it. I'd recommend a 2 step workaround- first do a Save As on the jpeg, and then reopen in Xee.
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| Jun 7 2007 |
HENRIKTEKNIK Thanks for your reply, lectrick, but the image became only a few Kb "big", which make it impossible to open in for instance Preview.app... It's just as if its resources went depleted somehow. I loved everything about Xee and would very much like to start using it again. But seeing that this strip of image resources occured one time too many now, when I rotate pictures in Xee, I'm afraid I don't dare risking to loose one more picture... I hope this is due to something else, but so far, my pictures have stopped disappearing when using other image viewers. (Again, I still regard Xee as being the sweetest of them all. It's a pity for me, this.)
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| Apr 21 2007 |
SCHOSCHIE It is still probably the fastest image viewer there is for the Mac. However, after trying it out for a couple of weeks, I found that it is, unfortunately, not a viable Preview replacement. The main downside is that Xee cannot print. Also, it does not handle PDFs well (or at all?). Thirdly, it seems to get confused by some color spaces (or maybe embedded profiles)... on numerous occasions, JPEG images were displayed in very weird false colors. Nonetheless, if you regularly need to sift through large loads of pics, Xee is probably the best choice. In that respect, Xee is likely the closest you can get to the ACDSee tool on the PC.
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| Jun 7 2007 |
LECTRICK 1) Printing- I have gotten around this by setting Preview.app as the "default editor"... which you get to with a simple Command-E. So printing is command-E, command-P. 2) PDF- I set Preview to open pdf's. Preview is now my PDF reader and all-around printer, Xee for everything else.
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| Feb 15 2007 |
HEATHERMASON Excellent, excellent, excellent! This is just what I was looking for to replace preview. The features are great and the program is plenty stable. Thank you dev!
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| Feb 12 2007 |
ANAPAT Excellent program, but it seems that lossless JPEG-rotation went bye-bye in version 2.0, so I switched back to 1.2.1.
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| Jun 12 2007 |
WAHA.06X36 It's still there. You just have to it in two steps instead of one. Rotate the image, then save. It defaults to saving losslessly.
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| Feb 1 2007 |
SCHOSCHIE Very good! Very, very fast indeed, very low cpu and mem usage. But there's a big downside... Xee can't print! I was going to almost trash Preview because Xee is so much better, but you can't live without it if you wanna print. Too bad! Maybe this will come up in a later version. No matter what, Xee is the fastest image viewer I've seen on MacOSX.
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| Jan 31 2007 |
HENRIKTEKNIK VERY nice image viewer. I like that it shows a chequered background for transparent areas! And even with *diagonal* squares (= even better than straight squares.) Some wishes for improvement: - Disable scroll-wheel operation while cropping images! (To prevent accidental "loss in focus" while cropping.) - Smaller toolbar icons for Rename, Delete, etc. - Cosmetic: Option for having Xee automatically put its window on the center of the screen. - After editing a picture with an external editor, and saving anew, having Xee still show that picture after you saved it. Right now, it seems to put the edited picture last in the viewing 'queue'. (I might have missed some feature that remedies this. If so, nevermind this.) Keep up the great work. This is definitely replacing Preview.app and any other 3rd party image viewers on my computer.
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| Jan 30 2007 |
ATTENTIONWANDERED thank you so much. this program is so much better then preview, wayyy faster on my 1.25 g4. definately a must have
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| Jan 30 2007 |
Love the smoothness of OpenGL scrolling. :) Now if it only could display PDF-files and if the cursor would hide after a while in full screen mode it'd be even better.
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| Jan 29 2007 |
ANDREW SCOTT Very nice work. Fast and efficient. I really appreciate the auto-rotate option and the speed is very welcome, as is Uiversal Binary. What it does very well is rapidly allow viewing of images within a given folder. I often choose to view a subset of images in a folder and will probably keep using ViewIt for that purpose. PhotoReviewer suits me better for it's sorting options when I'm processing batches of recent photos but perhaps that's just because I'm used to it. Xee's "Move to destination n" feature makes it an excellent (and free) alternative. Great work and thanks.
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| Jan 22 2007 |
MILEMOBILE The fastest image viewer for mac
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| Mar 26 2006 |
TIM.DEHRING I had no idea about this app until a friend pointed it out...I love it. Congrats to the developer!
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| Mar 10 2006 |
ANDREW SCOTT This is a pretty nice little package: well done. However I really wish you could set "Automatic rotation" permanently on so that it, you know, rotates images using EXIF information automatically! I'd also like the ability to assign keyboard shortcuts to destination folders. I'll be watching the development of Xee. Thanks to the developer for creating it.
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| Mar 7 2006 |
LECTRICK Also (FYI), as of the date of my posting there is zero mention as to whether this app is a Universal Binary.
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| Mar 11 2006 |
WAHA.06X36 It does say "Platform: PPC". No Intel version will be forthcoming until I have a machine to test it on.
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| Mar 7 2006 |
LECTRICK This app needs to 1) open PDF documents via some built-in Cocoa framework 2) print... and then I can say goodbye to Preview.app ;) One thing I noticed it doesn't have is bicubic resampling during scaling operations. This makes it fast but also means it will lose every third line of data in a 66% reduction, for example, instead of blending it in.
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| Mar 11 2006 |
WAHA.06X36 The lower-quality scaling is due to using OpenGL and not Cocoa to draw images. It's non-trivial to get higher-quality scaling, but I've got some ideas for that. We'll see. PDF reading is not easily implemented, as this is strictly a bitmap image viewer, and it would require rendering the PDF to a bitmap and then displaying that, which would waste memory and not work very well, especially not when zooming. Since it would be half-assed, I've decided to leave that up to programs that can do it better for now, unless I have some brilliant idea. Printing might get implemented later, depending on how much trickery it will take.
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| Mar 11 2006 |
LECTRICK Fair enough ;)
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| Feb 22 2006 |
X-USER -Wish list: "PRINT" function. I tried to print a couple of screenshots (jpg) and it wasn't there. I had to "Open With" Preview to print. Sort of inconvenient. Still a great tool.
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| Feb 18 2006 |
In Preview: when I zoom in/out the window doesn't resize to fit the images...it used to work in Classic. I sory missed that. Xee does that and MUCH more. - Easy to cusomize the keyboard shortcuts. - Click on one image in a folder, and you can EASILY view all the images in that folder using right-arrow and left-arrow keys. Very Excellent feature! Xee is now my default viewer for images. - Wish to have the thumbnails in future version. Thank you for this great software.
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| Feb 18 2006 |
WAHA.06X36 As I mentioned earlier, I didn't see the need for thumbnails, since OS X can do those itself.
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| Feb 18 2006 |
MOK.IN.TOUCH™ Pretty good. It's faster then "Preview". It can be set as default. Now I don't have to use "Preview" any more. Should add "Print" as new feature in your next update. It's important for lots of people. If I have to switch back to "Preview" to print, then there is no point of using this application. Right?
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| Feb 18 2006 |
LUMPY Finally, an OS X application that actually scrolls properly. (And I don't mean just graphic applications in OS X, I mean ANY application, including the Finder. Try scrolling using the arrow buttons on a window and get ready to cringe. It's always been bad.) Whoever wrote this app should be working for Apple. I'm thinking...Vice President of Scrolling Technologies. God knows they need one.
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| Feb 17 2006 |
ARVIDTP sweet! FINALLY a free program the supports zooming and panning in full screen mode! And the scrolling through a directory of images with the mouse wheel is an excellent idea. Love the plethora of customizable key commands. (I switched zoom in to use "=" instead of "+" like other apps - less use of shift key). Had one crash in 10.3.9 - when selecting color for window background for second time with the same color picker open. But other than that great!!
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| Feb 17 2006 |
ARVIDTP however I just realized that "open in editor" does not always work on 10.3.9 (crashes photoshop on launch, does not open in preview), and "save as..." does nothing... Also iPhoto should be in the editor list - at least it is not on my mac (iPhoto 5.0.4).
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| Feb 17 2006 |
WAHA.06X36 I've tried my best to work around features that are in 10.4 but aremissing in 10.3, but I don't have an actual 10.3 machine to test on, so there might still be some incompatiblities in there. If you to help out, you can open up /Applications/Utilities/Console.app and look for any error messages from Xee, and post them here or at http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/kareha.pl/1122405906/ , and I'll try to see if it's something I can fix. iPhoto not showing up is probably because iPhoto doesn't register itself as an editor for image files. I could possibly make an option to include all programs that can open a file, and not just editors, though.
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| Feb 1 2006 |
VASILIS Very good app! One thing would make it even better: I'd like a thumbnailview of all the images in a directory.
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| Feb 1 2006 |
WAHA.06X36 I didn't see a need to add a thumbnail view when OS X can do that just as well itself.
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| Feb 1 2006 |
VASILIS Wow. Thanks. Didn't know that feature (:
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| Feb 1 2006 |
SZABESZ Geee :) Even better than 1.0 :) Thank you! Now all we need is a simple slide show :)
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| Jan 16 2006 |
CHRIS REED Great, simple, useful little app. Does what it says on the packet. Tells me what I want to know... opens in editor of choice Don't get lost in 'features' please developer. | |
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| Nov 23 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Does it actually require Tiger? Why?
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| Nov 23 2005 |
WAHA.06X36 Because of a bug, actually. It will be fixed in the next version.
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| Nov 25 2005 |
ANONYMOUS I await it with baited breath. (I've been eating sushi, sorry)
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| Nov 23 2005 |
SZABESZ Yes! Finally somebody has come up with good image viewer app. Thanx a lot. Simply the best and the fastest! Please implement a simple slide show (it needs a black background and some control keys) and I will never have to anything else :)
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| Nov 23 2005 |
BALLACK yes, nice app! but why does it change the modification date of every folder I am viewing? and it would be nice to drag'n'drop folders too on the app icon.
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| Nov 23 2005 |
WAHA.06X36 This is due to an Apple bug. Until they fix it, or I can think up a clever workaround, I can't add support for this.
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| Nov 23 2005 |
WAHA.06X36 Oh yeah, and I don't know why it would change the modification date, as I am not writing anything to the folder. I'll see if I can reproduce that.
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| Nov 23 2005 |
WAHA.06X36 No, can't reproduce it.
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| Nov 23 2005 |
WAHA.06X36 Also, for those who have laptops without Page Up and Page Down keys, you can use the keys "." and "," instead.
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| Nov 23 2005 |
ANONYMOUS and peoples who have french powerbook keyboards ;) ? can't u just add a preferences tab to customize hotkeys ?
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| Nov 23 2005 |
INGUS Totally agree with Guntis... just a resize and crop function would be also appreciated for quick digital image browsing/sorting... but anyway - good work already :) Looking forward to updates...
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| Nov 23 2005 |
GUNTIS BUKALDERS Very good start! This is almost what I used to have as image preview in Windows :) However, it would be good to have several improvements: 1) Full-screen preview (black or user-defined background); 2) Command+- to zoom out, Command+= to zoom in, Command+0 to 100%, Command+Option+0 fit to screen. These are shortcuts used in professional (Adobe and many other) programs. It would be good to keep them... 3) Why complicate browsing by pressing Page Up nad Page down, when I could use just arrow buttons left or right? Command+left arrow goes 10 images back, while Command+right jumps 10 images forward. Home button jumps to he first image, End to the last image. 4) Add Xee to the contextual menus in the Finder. ("View with Xee" or just simply "Browse images"). 5) Add optional toolbar for previous/next image, Zoom in/out/Fit to screen/100%, Rotate left/right, Flip vertical/horizontal, Delete. What else? Probably that's all we'd need for the good'n'fast image browser... :-) Add these few extra features and it'll be THE BEST image viewer for the Mac!!!
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| Nov 23 2005 |
TIMBO13 This comes so close to being exactly the type of image viewer I have been looking for. Well, it's closer than any other app I have tried. I agree with all the above suggestions as well. After that, it will be exactly what I have been looking for.
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| Nov 23 2005 |
WAHA.06X36 1) Fullscreen is planned, but not done yet. 2) Those may be the normal shortcutes, but they also cause massive pain to your fingers to use. I might add them as an option, but I find it much easier to not have to use key chords for such basic actions. 3) The arrow keys are used for scrolling when zoomed in. This will not be changed. 4) You can already select "Open with... - Xee". Or set it as the default viewer. 5) I might add a toolbar in a later version, but I haven't yet because find a toolbar a waster of space in an image viewer.
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| Nov 23 2005 |
AVETENEBRAE first, amazing software, really fast ! what i've looking for too :) i'm also agree with comments above. Just a point : i'm on a powerbook and pageUp and pageDown are annoying on this small keyboard (using fn). Why not simply a preferences tab for custom hotkeys ??
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| Nov 23 2005 |
GUNTIS BUKALDERS Yes, user-defined shortcuts would be great! Could you add shortcut editing tab in Preferences? And please add the ability to drop folder on Xee's icon to view that folder's content.
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| Nov 23 2005 |
WAHA.06X36 "." and "," work as keyboard shortcuts instead of Page up and Page down. Also, the folder dropping is due to an Apple bug.
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| Nov 22 2005 |
ANONYMOUS awesome app!!.. i've been waiting for something like this for ages!
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