Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:59 PM +0000 4/1/00, Donal Philby wrote: >Nathan Wajsman wrote: >> >> Gerry, >> >> How is the speed of this program, and does it do good thumbnails? I have >>tried >> Thumbs Plus, which is OK but quite slow when doing a contact sheet from a CD >> with 50 MB+ files. The contact sheet feature in Adobe Photoshop 5.5 is quite >> useless as you cannot even vary the font size so that if you have a file >>name >> longer than 8 characters it is lost. I am always in search of a good >>thumbnails >> program. >> >> Nathan >> >> Gerry Walden wrote: >> >> > I have to agree with the other LUGers who have recommended the Extensis >> > Portfolio program. I use it extensively and I am now in a position >>to post >> > people (clients etc.) an indexed catalogue of both my slide library and my >> > monochrome work in searchable form on CD rom. >> >Also consider a program called Fetch. You can index all your images on >CD, leave the file names/thumbs on the HD and when you call them up it >tells you which CD to load. Does key works and other stuff too. A >friend set up the SD Padres team photo library using this system and it >works fine. And they will do a hundred pix a game, 160 games a year >plus other stuff. > >donal >__________ >Donal Philby >San Diego >www.donalphilby.com Extensis Portfolio is the descendant of Aldus Fetch. Same program, later version. As I suggested berfore, try iView Multimedia from http://www.scriptsoftware.com. Shareware, and has various improvements over Portfolio (previously Fetch). * Henning J. Wulff /|\ Wulff Photography & Design /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com