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| Thread ID: 80565 | 2007-06-27 23:11:00 | ACDSee version 3 | Thomas01 (317) | PC World Chat |
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| 563804 | 2007-06-27 23:11:00 | I have been a lover of ACDSee since my first scanner came with a simplified version of their program. It was great. Then I bought into version3 - some areas not as good but on the whole MUCH better. Foolishly I ignored the advice I received about it then becoming overloaded and useless and I bought into version 7 To find it would not convert the old files - took twice as long as my original version to find photos and couldn't in any case find some of them. |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 563805 | 2007-06-27 23:20:00 | Yes .. it was simple and quick , fast on start up, but I gave up since ver5 or 6 ? It used to be an excellent photo viewer, double click and instantly it will display the photo on the screen, but now ... double click and wait ... and wait ... Same goes for acrobat reader, I gave up after ver4 or 5 ? I only want a simple PDF reader, not some stupid suite that needs to load a lot of things just to get it started. Foxit is excellent. |
SKT174 (1319) | ||
| 563806 | 2007-06-27 23:39:00 | My first entry was only half my intention. I took too long editing it after a mistake and it was stopped by the administrator. So to continue. I now have downloaded version9. Which has a couple of faults. (1) I want to use it on my laptop only - which is NEVER allowed on the Internet. But I had to go onto the Internet to get the code to start it up. I pointed this out to the company when I had the same problem with v7 (2) The advertised 30 day trial is only one week - not enough. I will buy into it but want to keep running version 3 for quick access and simplicity. But the original disks got lost in a house move and I have been running a trial version with a utility I was given to keep it going. I would like to get a copy of this utility - can anybody help. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 563807 | 2007-06-27 23:50:00 | And what format, are the old files in, why they wont convert? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 563808 | 2007-06-27 23:52:00 | ACDSee just became worse after version 3.1. You could try Xnview (http://www.xnview.com/) . It's free and a lot like ACDSee 3. | joshjnz (7844) | ||
| 563809 | 2007-06-27 23:54:00 | Nothing wrong with Irfanview (http://www.irfanview.com) either. And its free. Well used to be.. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 563810 | 2007-06-27 23:59:00 | I have used AcdSee since day one and love it for basic image viewing/manipulation. Not sure what you mean about converting older files, but if you are trying to change the format of them (not just renaming the extension) just open the image in the AcdSee editor and when you save it you have the option to save it in about any image format known to man. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 563811 | 2007-06-28 00:33:00 | I may be misleading people here. The files ACDSee reads are the normal jpg etc etc. But if like me you like to write captions for all your photos and then use the captions to find them, ACDSee writes a descript.ion file for each folder involved. This system worked extremely well - why they decided to change it I don't know but they did. As far as I understand it the later versions do not have these descript files all over the place but just use one centralised database. So if you change to a later program then ACDSee takes all the descrip files and rewrites them into this new database. But many of us found it just didn't work. I spent hours on v7 and even the originators admitted there were immense problems and were not able to help me. Version 9 looks as though they have solved these problems at last. I hope so. But being so familiar with v3 I would still like to either find my old disks or get that utility. Or perhaps try Xnview or others. But will they read the captions I have already written. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 563812 | 2007-06-28 00:41:00 | I may be misleading people here. The files ACDSee reads are the normal jpg etc etc. But if like me you like to write captions for all your photos and then use the captions to find them, ACDSee writes a descript.ion file for each folder involved. This system worked extremely well - why they decided to change it I don't know but they did. As far as I understand it the later versions do not have these descript files all over the place but just use one centralised database. So if you change to a later program then ACDSee takes all the descrip files and rewrites them into this new database. But many of us found it just didn't work. I spent hours on v7 and even the originators admitted there were immense problems and were not able to help me. Version 9 looks as though they have solved these problems at last. I hope so. But being so familiar with v3 I would still like to either find my old disks or get that utility. Or perhaps try Xnview or others. But will they read the captions I have already written. Tom Ahh I see now:) Yes, the newer versions don't do that for some reason,:illogical I never used it though which would be why I havn't found it to be a problem. The developers should definitley not have got rid of that feature. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 563813 | 2007-06-28 00:48:00 | I have a copy of both v2 and v3. PM me. | user (1404) | ||
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