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CompuPic as image catalog package
by Una Smith - Jan 30th 2000 13:46:45
CompuPic may be aimed at too many niches. It does both graphic image
editing and cataloging, but doesn't do either job extremely well. There is
a lot of competition in the image editing niche, even on Linux. There
seems to be less competition in the image cataloging niche; CompuPic is
the only one I have found so far for Linux (if there are others, would
someone please let me know about them?).
However, compared to other image catalogers on Mac or PC (ImageAXS,
Extensis Pro, etc.), CompuPic 5.0 1036 lacks some important features:
- EPS files must have a TIFF "header" (preview?). I have good reasons
for not including previews in my EPS files, but I need to see what's in
them when I'm cataloging them, so I need a cataloging program that builds
its own thumbnails if necessary.
- The PhotoCD (PCD) format is not supported by CompuPic Linux version.
- Keywording is rudimentary: no master keyword list. And the UI is a
bit idiosyncratic.
- There does not appear to be any comments field, or any way to add new
custom fields.
- Searching is also rudimentary: no boolean searches, no
restricted-field searches.
- Finally, CompuPic's license agreement and handling of TIFF and GIF
file formats makes this package CRIPPLE WARE. Forget the part about "free
for personal use": this package is strictly consumer-oriented, yet the
most casual user is almost guaranteed to use the package in such a way as
to qualify as a "business" user, and be obligated to buy the package.
If you have a professional image collection (stock photos, research
materials, etc.), keep looking. But, if all you want is a file manager
that shows nice big thumbnails of images and lets you shuffle images around
and fiddle with them, this is the package for you. The good news is the
price is low!
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Well, that really does not look that great to me ...
by Stéphane Popinet - Jan 12th 2000 08:40:01
Apart from an apparently efficient thumbnailing implementation (but the
quality of the thumbnails is not that great either ...), all I can see is a
big monolithic application. Is their any extension mechanism provided? And
for a "beta" release the number of fatal bugs looks a bit excessive to me.
The keyword mechanism is interesting but very limited. What would be nice
is a real and flexible way to use the graphical interface in connection
with an external database.
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Right now, at the top of the pack...
by CroxWire - Nov 14th 1999 16:36:25
I really like this viewer, and so far, I haven't seen anything that rivals
it on linux. Its fast, its easy to use, its able to manage large archives.
Its almost everything one would want... So far, I have tried (kview, ee,
qiv, xv (I grew up with this one) and a few others). Now all I need to
download is the new version of gimp. Peace...
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by hollins - Sep 24th 1999 23:03:20
I very much appreciate that you've ported a strong graphics manager to
Linux; however, did you have to keep the windows icons? Even more
insulting is that my Linux box is referred to as "My Computer". C'mon,
guys.
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Nice but...
by Zarlox - Jul 9th 1999 18:40:16
Now this seems like a nice program. It is sure faster at displaying
images than many other similar programs I have tried.
But I think it is a mistake that the UI looks like it uses some butt
ugly pseudo Windows[TM] widget set.
Can I say fltk ??
Now if they could port it to gtk or even qt... :-)
The buttons aren't quite as razor sharp as they could be. maybe
reworking the buttons would be a good idea?
Not meaning to be harsh or anything but you can see by their Webpage IMHO that they really should be
using GIF instead of jpegs there. It is to blury to front for a company
that makes graphics software for a living. It gives a bad first impression.
Hehe maybe they are all coders and no *really* good graphics artists?
Anyway. if they get things worked out this is going to be a good
commercial package.
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