viewer for XAR files

[icicle]

Drawings keep accumulating on a removeable disk. I want to sort them.

Anyone knows a viewer, album etc. that accepts XAR format?

[icicle]

Drawings keep accumulating on a removeable disk. I want to sort them.

Anyone knows a viewer, album etc. that accepts XAR format?

[caraman1]

http://www.photodex.com/

Wouldn't be without it!


Dennis

<a href=http://www.djart.com>DJArt & Design</a>

[randyrives]

Dennis,

I checked out the website, but under formats listed I did not see the .XAR (xara) listed.

I take it you own the software, so does it read .xar files?

--Randy

[roman]

it does.. it somehow can find out that xar files have preview bitmaps stored in them and it displays them. Great software indeed!!! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

[caraman1]

I've owned it for a couple of years and yes, it does read XAR files, actually, I think it reads a GIF header or something thats in the XAR file.

D/L it and try it out, it does a lot for a pretty inexpensive piece of software and you get free updates for a year.

Dennis

<a href=http://www.djart.com>DJArt & Design</a>

[randyrives]

Dennis,

Thanks I will try it out this weekend!

--Randy

[Eric]

it went straight to my desktop as my default xara viewer, now you can instantly see all your abandoned projects in one window tee hee


scouse eric

[roman]

tee hee.. ;-)

[Sean Sedwards]

It seems that CompuPic solves the problems I was trying to overcome earlier in the year. It's a pity nobody mentioned it then!

For anyone that missed the earlier discussion, I've attached x-View which is my attempt to make non-XAR-compatible file viewers display the embedded GIF. It can also work with a browser and use the plug-in. It's simple but it's free and 750 times quicker to download than CompuPic!

The Xara X CD comes with a XAR file viewer (a full interpreter) which also interprets CMX, JPG & PNG. It has some limitations and may not install correctly by default. If anyone's having trouble installing it, let me know and I'll post the patch program I wrote.

Regards - Sean