luisps Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 Please, in order to be able to see previews of Affinity images in Photo Mechanic, they (the people in Camera Bits) would like you could document how to access a preview from your file format or even better, provide an open source library for generating previews of your file format. Thanks a lot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roble2020 Posted September 5, 2021 Share Posted September 5, 2021 I've just been looking on the Camera Bits forum about this too. The latest I could find is an offer from Camera Bits Support to address if: I think those other products (and the Finder) are using the "Quick Look" plugin. If the Affinity Photo folks will provide documentation for their format (at least enough to extract previews) then we'll try to support it.-Kirk It would be great to be able to see afphoto files on the contact sheet along with other thumbnails. What is the latest on this please? I searched but couldn't find anything... Regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 5, 2021 Share Posted September 5, 2021 From my limited understanding, both Windows and macOS provide standard interfaces for extracting a thumbnail from any file, and those interfaces should work with the Affinity files, too. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roble2020 Posted September 5, 2021 Share Posted September 5, 2021 Thanks Walt. The default behaviour hoped for is that when one opens a contact sheet in Photo Mechanic this would result in all photo files that one would expect to be able to select to work with would be displayed as thumbnails and not as the .afphoto extension icon. It seems CameraBits are offering to help if Serif/Affinity can provide the info requested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 3 hours ago, roble2020 said: It seems CameraBits are offering to help if Serif/Affinity can provide the info requested. It sounds like they may want to read the file themselves, parse it, and extract a preview. Instead, if my understanding is correct, they should just use the standard interfaces to extract the thumbnail. That can work, I think, without any additional information from Serif. As far as I know Serif does not provide information about their file formats. XnViewMP can display thumbnails from the Affinity files, for example. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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