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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Can't See Thumbs
« on: 2013-11-01 21:08:53 »
Maybe your database is in a (subfolder of) a read-only system folder such as Program Files. If it can't be written to, no thumbnails can be made (see Help | System Info | Database Path).

You can create a new database elsewhere through Database | New. When you have done that and it works, you can use Options | Preferences | Startup to make the new database your Initial Database (i.e. the one loaded when ThumbsPlus is launched).

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Having fiddled with it some more.. when I turn off the "rebuild thumbnails at printer resolution" option, I get just a blank page too! (well, except for a header line). So, I suspect that's the problem.

813
Have you tried Options | Preferences | Advanced | "Disable banded printing" ? That helps with some inkjet printers.

If you spend a lot of time experimenting with that Print Catalog function, you may want to turn 'Use wizard dialogs' off under Options | Preferences | General. That way you get a regular tabbed dialog that makes it easier to jump from one page to another.

As for me, it seems to work fine here, but I print to a PDF file printer instead of to an actual device.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / PDF Plugin
« on: 2013-10-23 08:08:13 »
Weird, it looks like my message about the PDF plugin was deleted!!

Here's where you can get Ghostscript (get the 32b version):  http://www.ghostscript.com/download/

Here's a link to the plug-in: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6ucyhsr7e15hgd8/plug_gs.zip?dl=0

Instructions in brief:

    [*] Install 32 bit Ghostscript on your system.
    [*] Download and unzip the plug-in (plug_gs.tpp) and place it in your plugins folder. For ThumbsPlus 7 that should be simply its program folder and for TP9 I think that's a subfolder named plugins.
    [*] Launch ThumbsPlus
    [*] Tell ThumbsPlus where to find Ghostscript:
      in TP7: Options | File Plugins | Ghostscript PS/EPS/PDF | Ghostscript installation location
      in TP9: Options | Ghostscript PS/EPS/PDF | Ghostscript installation location
    This location should point to the Ghostscript DLL. On my own system, it is "C:\Program Files\gs\gs8.64\bin\gsdll32.dll".

    [*] Update the filetype definition for PDF files (and any other filetypes that you want to be loaded through Ghostscript such as PS, EPS and/or AI) by setting the 'Load Using' value to 'Cerious Plug-in', and in the field to the right of that choose 'plug_gs.tpp'. The filetype definitions are under Options | Preferences | Filetypes. Or you can just right-click on a file of the desired type and choose 'Configure type' from its context menu.[/list]

    I hope this helps!

    -Daan-

    815
    > I am having success doing it this way, but it also worked when I dragged a folder with several subfolders.  What is the reason you recommend to do the subfolders first?

    That's how it had to be done in the past (v7), but if it worked for you, maybe it's no longer necessary with v9!

    816
    Main Window - Options | Preferences - Schemes & Sets

    817
    > Is the best approach to drag the grayed-out thumbnails to their corresponding actual file location [..]

    Yes, but keep a backup of your database file and be sure to have "Options | Preferences | Thumbnails | Auto-remove Orphans" off. Also, drag-n-drop any subfolders before you do the folders.

    818
    > The even more useful criteria such as "Keyword" and "Gallery" are only stored in the database.

    Keywords can be saved in the (JPG, PNG, TIFF) image files themselves as IPTC information, as per my earlier message. It's quite easy to do with TP7.

    819
    Hi -- I'm too busy for a full reply to your questions, but in brief, here's what you can do:

    - Get ThumbsPlus v7 sp2, which has a full-featured IPTC editor. Maybe if you contact Cerious Software's Laura Shook (lshook@cerious.com) she'll agree to give you a discounted or free 'downgrade' license. Note: TP7 does not support Unicode in filenames etc, so if that should be a requirement, this is not going to work.

    TP7 sp2 can be downloaded from http://www.cerious.com/archive.shtml.

    -In TP7, go to Options | Preferences | General and turn ON the option "Retain original file date/time when quick process turning or editing IPTC."

    - Assign database keywords to your images using Ctrl-K (which will build a drop-down list). To assign multiple keywords at once, separate them with semicolons, for example: "rabbit;goat;cow" (no spaces!).

    - If you want TP to automatically generate other database keywords when files are thumbnailed, see Options | Preferences | Keywords for various options.

    - If you want to edit your keyword list, see File | Database | Edit Keywords

    - When you have assigned database keywords to your files, it's time to move them into the IPTC headers of the image files themselves. Select the files, press Ctrl-I to invoke the IPTC editor. From its menu, choose Keywords | Combine with database. Then press OK. This will copy the database keywords into the IPTC headers of your image files (JPG, TIFF or PNG), without recompressing them.

    You could do your entire collection of files this way. However, for new files that you add in the future, you may want to reverse the order, and add keywords to them through the IPTC editor, which TP7 can automatically copy into the database through the relevant setting in Options | Preferences | Keywords. That way be an efficient method that still keeps your in-file and in-database keywords synched.

    - To search for keywords (database keywords -- in-file keywords can't be searched), use Edit | Find by Query | tab:Keyword.

    I hope this helps.

    820
    > 1. I am having a problem with the section process in the Similar files Edit: Pull-down window.  I can't get the search to take place in my selected folder(or tree or database).

    Do you mean Edit | Find Similar? That always operates on the current folder, or on the current tree (folder plus its subfolders), or on the entire database. And that works fine here..

    > 2. How do I clear the Files Folder images after finding them? I can't seem to clear them?

    Do you mean the "Similar Images" gallery that is created in the Found Files section of the tree? Right-click on it and choose "Remove Found List".

    > 3. How do I tag, for deletion, the files that I want to delete?

    Press INS to tag, Ctrl-INS to Untag. Or right-click on the thumbnail and use Thumbnail | Tag. When done, use Edit | Select By | Tagged to select all tagged files. Then press DEL to delete them. (btw, before starting this, you may want to do Ctrl-A, Ctrl-INS to untag all files before you start tagging them for deletion. This just in case that some files that you don't want to delete were already tagged).

    Bonus info:
    - You can also search for files similar to a particular image. Select that image and use Edit | Find | Tab:Image Similarity.
    - You can also sort the thumbnail list on Similarity. This is slow with large folders though.

    821
    That's good news! I didn't know that TP would use an existing .typ file from a previous release, but it explains what we both have seen.

    822
    Hi Bryan,

    I wish I could help here, but I'm afraid that I can't. I'm not sure if the installer actually makes those filetype associations, or if TP9 itself does so when it is launched for the first time. If it's the latter, you might be able to simply edit thumbs.typ (as explained in my earlier response in this thread) before launching TP9, or replace it with an earlier copy that has the associations turned off. I'm sorry, but I don't remember how the installer works exactly, having used it only once myself. I don't recall having any problems with filetype associations myself, though, so there must be a way to avoid them.

    btw, I am using a (highly recommended) real-time system monitor utility named WinPatrol Plus that alerts me whenever a program is trying to do something questionable or unsafe, such as adding a boot-time startup program or a browser add-on or changing (certain) filetype associations. I don't think that I used it myself for TP9, but if you happen to have WinPatrol too, you could tell it to monitor the relevant filetypes (jpg, gif, avi, etc) and then it would help you to quickly restore your associations if something went wrong.

    823
    > Ah ha! So removing my two mov files fixed the issue. So ThumbsPlus 7 works with multimedia files and 8 and 9 don't.

    Well, no.. assuming no v8-introduced bugs interfere, it should still work. I guess you just had the .mov files set up correctly in TP7 (that is: you had a compatible codec installed, and the right definition under Options | Preferences | Filetypes) but not so in v8 and v9. I don't use MOV files myself, but there's probably a good codec for them in the [link=http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm]K-Lite codec pack[/link] that several people here like a lot.

    > Cool Edit was my favorite sound editing program...and I am still running my copy. I still mourn the day they sold out to Adobe.

    And I'm still mourning with you.. I was their distributor for much of western Europe :-D

    824
    ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Next version?
    « on: 2013-09-22 19:26:23 »
    It is being worked on, but I don't know of any fixed schedule.

    825
    The only slideshow bug that I'm aware of -but it's a weird one- is when you run it in a folder that has more than a few subfolders. This may cause it to crash. One user reported that this happened with only 2 subfolders in his slideshow folder, but I had to create 7 subfolders before it would crash. Anyway, maybe you could try in a folder with no subfolders to see what happens.

    Also, are you sure that your selection of files doesn't include any blank, corrupt or multimedia files and that it's not related to your timing settings or any effects that you may be using? That is: if you select only a few JPGs, run it without effects and with manual control, you still get those black screens?

    Off-topic: Have a look at [link=http://www.zendogsoftware.com/About_zl.asp]http://www.zendogsoftware.com/About_zl.asp[/link]. Zen Light is a screen saver that creates beautiful fractal-like images that respond to your audio-in signal. It was written by David Johnston of Cool Edit (now Adobe Audition) fame.

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