Thumbnail is missing in the Open File dialog box in Painter
X

Hello -

I am using Painter X with Windows XP.  When I do a Control O to open a file 
there is a thumbnail box that appears in the "Open" dialog box where
the 
files are listed but the thumbnail for the selected file does not appear. 
Other friends also using Painter X are experiencing the same issue.

Why doesn't the thumbnail appear?  Thanks for your help!
-- 
Best Regards,

Bill Artman,
Bill Artman Photography, Inc.
913-631-4725
www.artmanphoto.com

Hi Steve,

There has never been a riff thumbnail preview for the Windows OS
and won't be until Corel releases the code so MS or another 3rd
party software developer can access it for inclusion in their product.
Painter's way of solving the problem is the clunky Preview.Pix file and
Browse feature. At least we have something, even if we have to be
rigorous about file maintenace for it to remain useful.

I've heard the Mac OS' have a 3rd party Riff viewer named Spolite or
something like that, but nothing for the Windows OS...yet.

Richard


> I've found that the above is always the case, but I suspect this is an 
> aspect of Folder Options, in combination with the View.Apply to All 
> Folders - though I'm skeptical and don't have the time to fiddle today. 
> Does one really want Thumbnail view for every folder?  I've found that if 
> I set View Thumbnails on a folder, Painter (all versions whether 6, 8, X, 
> or X.5) disregards this, and does not save my view choice (ie Thumbnails) 
> despite fetching from the same folder over and over.  This IS a bit of a 
> pain considering that Painter is a GRAPHICS application, and people who 
> use it are typically poring over lots of graphic files from folders.
>
> I can compare this to Word from Office 2000 - Try to insert a graphic from

> a folder, or even fetch a .doc from a folder, and it's No Thumbnails 100%.

> Considering that Office 2000 was out a few years before XP hit, this is 
> understandable.  But a package just released?
>
> Bad marks for OS integration on this level.  Hope it gets fixed, ala a 
> setting/preference for how Painter views the contents of folders.
>
> -- 
> Stephen Goodman

"Bill Artman" <bill@artmanphoto.com> wrote in message 
news:466f71a7$3_1@cnews...
>
> Hello -
>
> I am using Painter X with Windows XP.  When I do a Control O to open a 
> file there is a thumbnail box that appears in the "Open" dialog
box where 
> the files are listed but the thumbnail for the selected file does not 
> appear. Other friends also using Painter X are experiencing the same 
> issue.
>
> Why doesn't the thumbnail appear?  Thanks for your help!

I've found that the above is always the case, but I suspect this is an 
aspect of Folder Options, in combination with the View.Apply to All 
Folders - though I'm skeptical and don't have the time to fiddle today. 
Does one really want Thumbnail view for every folder?  I've found that if I 
set View Thumbnails on a folder, Painter (all versions whether 6, 8, X, or 
X.5) disregards this, and does not save my view choice (ie Thumbnails) 
despite fetching from the same folder over and over.  This IS a bit of a 
pain considering that Painter is a GRAPHICS application, and people who use 
it are typically poring over lots of graphic files from folders.

I can compare this to Word from Office 2000 - Try to insert a graphic from a 
folder, or even fetch a .doc from a folder, and it's No Thumbnails 100%. 
Considering that Office 2000 was out a few years before XP hit, this is 
understandable.  But a package just released?

Bad marks for OS integration on this level.  Hope it gets fixed, ala a 
setting/preference for how Painter views the contents of folders.

-- 
Stephen Goodman
*
* Cartoons about DVDs and Stuff
* http://www.earthlight.net/HiddenTrack
* The Loop Of The Week since 1996!
* http://www.earthlight.net/Studios 

Stephen Goodman schrieb:
> "Bill Artman" <bill@artmanphoto.com> wrote in message 
> news:466f71a7$3_1@cnews...
>> Hello -
>>
>> I am using Painter X with Windows XP.  When I do a Control O to open a

>> file there is a thumbnail box that appears in the "Open"
dialog box where 
>> the files are listed but the thumbnail for the selected file does not 
>> appear. Other friends also using Painter X are experiencing the same 
>> issue.
>>
>> Why doesn't the thumbnail appear?  Thanks for your help!
> 
> I've found that the above is always the case, but I suspect this is an 
> aspect of Folder Options, in combination with the View.Apply to All 
> Folders - though I'm skeptical and don't have the time to fiddle today. 
> Does one really want Thumbnail view for every folder?  I've found that if I

> set View Thumbnails on a folder, Painter (all versions whether 6, 8, X, or

> X.5) disregards this, and does not save my view choice (ie Thumbnails) 
> despite fetching from the same folder over and over.  This IS a bit of a 
> pain considering that Painter is a GRAPHICS application, and people who use

> it are typically poring over lots of graphic files from folders.
> 
> I can compare this to Word from Office 2000 - Try to insert a graphic from
a 
> folder, or even fetch a .doc from a folder, and it's No Thumbnails 100%. 
> Considering that Office 2000 was out a few years before XP hit, this is 
> understandable.  But a package just released?
> 
> Bad marks for OS integration on this level.  Hope it gets fixed, ala a 
> setting/preference for how Painter views the contents of folders.
> 
maybe you moved the .rif files, so the Painter-created preview file is 
not in the same folder anymore?

"Murat Kayi" <mkayi@web.de> wrote in message
news:466ff791_3@cnews...
>
> Stephen Goodman schrieb:
>> "Bill Artman" <bill@artmanphoto.com> wrote in message 
>> news:466f71a7$3_1@cnews...
>>> Hello -
>>>
>>> I am using Painter X with Windows XP.  When I do a Control O to
open a 
>>> file there is a thumbnail box that appears in the "Open"
dialog box 
>>> where the files are listed but the thumbnail for the selected file
does 
>>> not appear. Other friends also using Painter X are experiencing the
same 
>>> issue.
>>>
>>> Why doesn't the thumbnail appear?  Thanks for your help!
>>
>> I've found that the above is always the case, but I suspect this is an

>> aspect of Folder Options, in combination with the View.Apply to All 
>> Folders - though I'm skeptical and don't have the time to fiddle today.

>> Does one really want Thumbnail view for every folder?  I've found that
if 
>> I set View Thumbnails on a folder, Painter (all versions whether 6, 8,
X, 
>> or X.5) disregards this, and does not save my view choice (ie
Thumbnails) 
>> despite fetching from the same folder over and over.  This IS a bit of
a 
>> pain considering that Painter is a GRAPHICS application, and people who

>> use it are typically poring over lots of graphic files from folders.
>>
>> I can compare this to Word from Office 2000 - Try to insert a graphic 
>> from a folder, or even fetch a .doc from a folder, and it's No
Thumbnails 
>> 100%. Considering that Office 2000 was out a few years before XP hit, 
>> this is understandable.  But a package just released?
>>
>> Bad marks for OS integration on this level.  Hope it gets fixed, ala a

>> setting/preference for how Painter views the contents of folders.
>>
> maybe you moved the .rif files, so the Painter-created preview file is not

> in the same folder anymore?

Well, here's where the preview file method goes wrong: If one is for 
instance scanning graphics to a folder, and not doing it from Painter, when 
does the preview file get updated?  When a file is saved from Painter, I 
suspect.  But it still doesn't enable thumbnail viewing in the Open or Save 
folder.  It all feels a bit like the old method WordPerfect used to utilize 
to display a graphic on what would otherwise be a DOS screen; and most 
likely ought to be replaced with something more current, if not an option to 
use or not use the preview file (as opposed to the OS native capability).

Sure, there are still people out there who use versions of Windows other 
than XP and Vista, and so the preview file method is a fair but (as above) 
slightly flawed process; nonetheless it's all one has in non-XP/Vista 
versions, except of course on the application level.  Viewing Thumbnails has 
been a part of the operating system for some time now, and should be a lot 
simpler to enable a file menu (open/save etc) that has Thumbnails as an 
option, directly from the OS, as opposed to a separate file that requires 
third-party updating.


-- 
Stephen Goodman
*
* Cartoons about DVDs and Stuff
* http://www.earthlight.net/HiddenTrack
* The Loop Of The Week since 1996!
* http://www.earthlight.net/Studios