<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by jens g.r. benthien:
Doane,

you might try http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pierre.g/xnview/enhome.html.

It is free for non commercial purposes, supports an endless list of file formats and of course Xara X thumbnails. Don't forget to enable the disk cache function...

Or you might check http://xaraxtv.at.tut.by/ from Dmitry - it's a free Xara X file browser.

Maybe this will solve your problem. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Thanks, Jens:
I'm just so used to ACDSee after so many years of using it, I currantly have v6.0.3. But... they are getting more difficult to get good support from and their data base has been less reliable in the v6, and, their updates are getting expensive and occuring more and more often. I don't mind paying for updates, if they are major revisions, but thiers always seem to also be adressing some problems as well that should be fixed with patches.
I may soon switch to Thumbs+ by Cerious Software: http://www.cerious.com/thumbsplus.shtml
It doesn't have the blazingly fast thumnail generation as ACDSee but actually has more features, less problems, and though it also can't view xara files, it does support jpeg2000, Corel and other file types that ACDSee doesn't. Also, you can print to scale, which ACDSee can't and I've been bugging them for years about it with no fix.