Digital BW, The Print

on 1/7/02 9:45 AM, Bill Morse wrote:

> Frank, have you found anything that can read PS layers?

When you ask if these programs can read layered images, do you mean to make
thumbnails of them? I think most of these programs can.

I know at least Portfolio and Iview Media Pro can thumbnail layered images.
Both are pretty easy to work with; you can just take a folder of images and
drag and drop them onto an open window and these programs will thumbnail
them. From there you can sort them by various criteria. There very helpful.

I'm not a heavy user, so I can't tell you which program is really better,
but my current preference is for Iview Media. It seems a bit faster, has a
slightly more robust feature set than Portfolio, and it can display lots of
file types, like MP3s, PDFs, etc.

I wonder why your efforts with layered images failed. Maybe you need to
allocate more RAM to the program if you are using it for large files. Or
perhaps something was set in the preferences to only *display* certain file
types, like jpegs, or something screwy like that.

For the PC I think there are a couple that are said to be good and are
reasonably priced, I think one might even be free. I think one is called
Thumbsplus, and the other Infranview. Something like that....

Todd