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| Thread ID: 57317 | 2005-04-29 11:38:00 | Fast Viewer For Vector Graphics??? | zqwerty (97) | Press F1 |
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| 350284 | 2005-04-29 11:38:00 | I have just obtained a large number of vector graphic clip art files, they are indexed to a book that I have seen but do not have, it gives an idea of what the graphic will look like but not in colour only black and white. I need to look through the graphics quickly to see what I want to use. Of course they will open with Freehand but this is quite slow and tedious to do. Does anyone know of a fast pre-viewer for vector graphics? I hoped IrfanView would do it but just get "unknown file format" GhostView won't work either. Haven't tried Photoshop but that will be too slow. Any ideas??? |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 350285 | 2005-04-29 11:52:00 | The Gimp for windows (gimp-win.sourceforge.net/) & all the real The Gimp (http:) you ever really need ;) | Murray P (44) | ||
| 350286 | 2005-04-29 12:01:00 | Thanks Murray P, I am going out right now so all the testing will have to wait until tomorrow. I have to get a driveway ready for a large delivery of fire wood tomorrow at 9.30, so there goes my sleep in and late night on the internet on Friday night, damn. Isn't the Gimp a rather large download, I seem to remember that it is, I am on dial up. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 350287 | 2005-04-29 13:34:00 | You can get it up and running with GTK+ 2 package for Windows at 3493 kB and the The Gimp for Windows 2.2.6 at 7292 kB (10785 KB so far). You'll probably want the Help files at 10266 kB plus the Gimp Animation package at 749 kB. So all up your in for 21800 KB. Maybe you want to set it up with a download manager before you hit the hay. You have to install the GTK+ 2 package first, then The Gimp. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 350288 | 2005-04-29 13:58:00 | The Gimp has improved by leaps and bounds, and 2.2.6 is very good. But ~20Mb on dial-up? You're looking at 2h+. Better start the downloading now if I were you. | vinref (6194) | ||
| 350289 | 2005-04-29 14:00:00 | Why would Photoshop be too slow? Once you have the program open it will open a new file at the same speed as anything else. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 350290 | 2005-04-29 16:27:00 | I want to do with the hyperthetical program what I do with IrfanView when looking at jp's, that is, open the first file in a folder and then use the arrows to quickly view all the rest of the jpg's in the folder. Anything else will be too tedious and destroy the creative flow that I am trying to maintain. To use Photoshop would be the same as using FreeHand, slow and cumbersome. Ideally, as in IrfanView, I would like to see all files as thumbnails to choose the one I might use. Like the clipart thumbnail viewer that I use with MS programs. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 350291 | 2005-04-29 21:55:00 | Photoshop has a file browser,plus if you go file>open,point it at thedirectory and click the view button you get thumbnails. Or you could drag 20 of the vector graphics into photoshop at a time. |
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