Jaffa Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 When I want to view images quickly I have always used Irfanview, which is great, except that in some situations, where I want to view an Affinity Photo file, outside of Affinity Photo, it cannot recognise it. I was told by someone that Faststone can view Affinity files, but I have just tried and so far it refuses to recognise them. Is there someway that I can get Faststone to do this, or is there another program I could use for the purpose? Quote Jafa - Just Another Fantastic Aucklander (Jim) Windows 11 Affinity Photo 2.4 Lightroom 6 Nik Collection and Topaz Denoise AI Intel Core i7 9700K @ 3.60GHz 32 °C Coffee Lake 14nm Technology Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Try XnView MP or ACDSee (see: AlternativeTo). Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaffa Posted January 12, 2019 Author Share Posted January 12, 2019 Thanks, v_kyr - Unfortunately, XnView MP is not free. Have had a look at ACDSee and it seems that it may only show thumbnails, whilst I want to look at the images at 100% (and often above that). Will keep researching, including having a closer look at AlternativeTo. Quote Jafa - Just Another Fantastic Aucklander (Jim) Windows 11 Affinity Photo 2.4 Lightroom 6 Nik Collection and Topaz Denoise AI Intel Core i7 9700K @ 3.60GHz 32 °C Coffee Lake 14nm Technology Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 26 minutes ago, Jaffa said: Unfortunately, XnView MP is not free. Have had a look at ACDSee and it seems that it may only show thumbnails, whilst I want to look at the images at 100% (and often above that). Will keep researching, including having a closer look at AlternativeTo. XnViewMP is free for personal use, though not for commercial use. Nothing will actually open .afphoto, .afdesign, or .afpub files except the Affinity products. However, Affinity will embed a thumbnail preview that some other programs can show, if enabled in the Affinity Preferences. 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...
Jaffa Posted January 12, 2019 Author Share Posted January 12, 2019 Hi Walt Sounds great! Have had a look through the Edit>Preferences and cannot yet see where/how to do this. Can you give me a pointer or two please. If it is "Save thumbnails with documents", then that is already ticked. Jim Quote Jafa - Just Another Fantastic Aucklander (Jim) Windows 11 Affinity Photo 2.4 Lightroom 6 Nik Collection and Topaz Denoise AI Intel Core i7 9700K @ 3.60GHz 32 °C Coffee Lake 14nm Technology Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 58 minutes ago, Jaffa said: If it is "Save thumbnails with documents", then that is already ticked. That's it. And some programs will show them. I thought that XNViewMP did, but I'm not sure right now, as it doesn't seem to (any more?) for me. 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...
firstdefence Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 On Mac XNViewMP shows fine for afdesign and afphoto files Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah73 Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 In Settings>General>General Tab Make sure the first option, show all graphic formats is checked. Then go to File list>Custom Filter and make sure the row that says Exclude has everything UNCHECKED. Hope this helps. You should be seeing thumbnail previews for afdesign and afphoto files..if not, check in AD and AP to make sure you have the setting enabled to include thumbnails with your files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 12, 2019 Share Posted January 12, 2019 Thanks. Today XNViewMP does seem to be showing the embedded thumbnails. Not sure why it didn't yesterday. 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...
R C-R Posted January 13, 2019 Share Posted January 13, 2019 On 1/12/2019 at 2:39 AM, Pariah73 said: Then go to File list>Custom Filter and make sure the row that says Exclude has everything UNCHECKED. It isn't strictly necessary to do that. It can be useful to limit the visibility of some file types, particularly those XNViewMP can't display much if any info about. The important thing is not to include any Affinity native file format extensions in the Extensions column (which is editable). So just make sure afphoto & afdesign are not included in that column & together with the General > Show all graphics formats option, you should be good to go. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah73 Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 in the exclude list is .svg For me, I couldn't preview svg thumbnails until I had unchecked it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 2 hours ago, Pariah73 said: in the exclude list is .svg For me, I couldn't preview svg thumbnails until I had unchecked it Instead of unchecking anything in the Exclude row, try double-clicking on the last item in that row, with the list of excluded file type extensions. That will highlight the text of the list, so you can edit it like any other line of text. Delete svg in the usual way & see if you can see svg file thumbnails. You may have to restart the app for this to take effect. FWIW, below is how I have configured this on my Mac so I do see thumbnail previews of svg files. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah73 Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 I did that, but it didn't 'remember' the setting no matter how hard i tried. My solution worked for me so I suggested it. Now there's two Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chikega Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 Pixave 2 (Mac only) has worked well for me since 2016 for previewing Affinity Photo and Designer files. 🚀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightchaser-nyc Posted September 3, 2023 Share Posted September 3, 2023 On Mac/iPad https://www.pixlpath.com can display the previews of .afphoto files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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