Re: [Gimp-user] bewildered newbie query

[Neal Weissman <nweissma gmail com>]

i've attached a .png screen capture; hopefully you can see it.

you can see that the .gz unzipped to 517 .jp2 files. i can only reason to
deal with these 517 sequential files as a slideshow .. can you think of
another way?
 i can see no way to display a slide show other than 'fullscreen';
fullscreen seems to be the only way that irfanview will display a
slideshow. but fullscreen obliterates access to the the touchpad keyboard
and the iv toolbar and obliterates access to almost everything: the only
option that i can still control is 'shutdown' and 'restart'! ... nor do i
have a mouse.
although i repeatedly opted for it, the toolbar does not contain the
buttons for 'next page' and 'previous page' - even if i were able to access
it.


/s/ Neal Weissman

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Bob Long <bob oblong com au> wrote:

> Neal Weissman wrote on 03/10/15 02:32:
>
> > irfanview is indeed lauded for being plenary but i haven't had success
> > with it: irfanview's toolbar should as you say contain a “proceed to the
> > successor page” button but i don't see it - i only see a “progress to
> > the next *file* ” button. also, the toolbar appears only in one or two
> > views - the default view is full screen which does present the toolbar.
>
> I don't understand your distinction between successor "page" and "file".
> You say your "book" consists of many images, one per page. As far as
> image editors/viewers are concerned, an image is a file (ignoring
> complications like layers).


> I've never known Irfanview to default to starting full screen, but it is
> an option in the preferences, anyway.
>
> Even when you are in full screen, the left and right keyboard arrows
> navigate backwards/forwards to the next image in the directory.
>
> Attempting to read a book by individual images seems to be the root
> problem. Perhaps try converting them to something like an .epub e-book
> format and then use an e-book reader. I've not ever done that from
> images, but there are converters out there. But even that will have
> difficulties, given the text will not be able to flow to suit screen size.
>
> > and iv is most unfriendly to touchpad keyboards. thus, iv has thus far
> > been of no use to me although it was one of the first that i tried -
> > that's why i'm still searching. (btw, many softwares - including
> > Windows! and Google's Gmail- are inconsiderate of touchpad keyboards.)
>
> Can't help you there. What exactly is the device you are using?
>
> --
> Bob Long
>
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