Copyright: Copyright © VIMAS Technologies, 1999
Citation: Copyright © VIMAS Technologies, 1999


What is Image Navigator?

  Image Navigator is a useful free utility that allows you to efficiently browse and organize images on your

computer.

  Image Navigator is integrated with Web Image Guru (http://www.vimas.com/ve_guru.htm) - state of the art tool for Web graphics optimization. It allows running of Web Image Guru as a standalone application for optimizing the selected images.

  Image Navigator is closely integrated with HTML Organizer (http://www.vimas.com/ve_selector.htm) - just great utility that will help to organize and analyze your Web Pages.

  With Image Navigator you can:

- Browse the folders with preview thumbnails of the images;

- Display full image information;

- View the images full screen;

- Support drag&drop for image copying;

- Delete, cut and paste images;

- Open HTML files with images to view the list of images that are linked to this file;

- Preview multiple images in many formats: JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF and others;

- Make slideshow of the selected images;

- Setup different options for image preview.

  Image Navigator is designed as multithread application. You should not wait until all images read and can work with required image immediately when it appears.

  Image Navigator uses original algorithms to quickly create thumbnails even of big images. It does not create any extra thumbnail or index files on your disks.

See also:

Integration with Web Image Guru

Integration with HTML Organizer


About

Image Navigator, version 1.0.

Release Date - 04.07.1999,

Copyright VIMAS Technologies, 1999

VIMAS Technologies is an international software development company that provides software tools for image and audio processing and compression, Internet software, databases and education software. VIMAS Technologies also provides custom developments in C++, Delphi, Oracle.

VIMAS Technologies markets end user applications for Windows 95/98 and Windows NT including:

Web Image GuruTM (http://www.vimas.com/ve_guru.htm) - state of the art Web image optimization tool. The purpose of Web Image Guru is not only effective optimization of images, but also seamless integration of images into your Web pages. It works as Adobe Photoshop style Plug-in and as standalone application.

Web ImagingTM (http://www.vimas.com/ve_vwi.htm) - powerful image processing tool for Web designers. It allows quick processing and efficient compression of multiple images for further applications in Home Pages, printed catalogs, databases or files. This package includes triple batch processingTM technology, smart thumbnailTM generation, compound imagesTM , automatic home page generation, instant preview of image processing and much more.

Image MasterTM(http://www.vimas.com/ve_vim.htm) - versatile image processing software, that includes processing of multiple image formats, powerful JPEG compression, large number of image processing operations, creation of catalogs.

Web JPEGTM Plug-in (http://www.vimas.com/ve_plugin.htm) - Adobe Photoshop 3.05 compatible plug-in for interactive JPEG compression and fast thumbnails generation.

Speech MasterTM (http://www.vimas.com/ve_spm.htm) - the tool for speech and music compression for educational purposes.

Singing TutorTM (http://www.vimas.com/ve_str.htm) - the tool to study singing and tuning the musical instruments.

HTML OrganizerTM (http://www.vimas.com/ve_selector.htm) - useful utility for organizing HTML files and selecting contents of large HTML files (such as images, sound, Java applets) on your computer.

VIMAS Technologies,

POB 48, 252015,

Kiev, Ukraine

Internet: http://www.vimas.com

E-Mail:  vimas@info.kiev.ua


Basics

  Image Navigator allows you to easily browse folders with images and instantly preview multiple images.

- Select the folder with images from the folders tree and the thumbnails of the images will be showed in the right window. You can define the file formats for preview from the list of the available file formats. Image Navigator can display HTML files in the folders and you can browse images that are linked to HTML files by double click on HTML file.

- Double click on the image or press [image] button for the full screen preview of the image. Use Navigator window to zoom and scroll image. Click on image to close preview window.

- To select multiply images use Ctrl and mouse click, Shift and mouse click or Select All and Clear selection menu items.

- Press [image] button for the full screen preview of the selected images. Use Navigator window to zoom and scroll image. Click on image to view next image. Use left and right arrow to view previous and next image. Use ESC to close preview window.

- Press [image] button to organize slideshow of the selected images or all images in the current folder. You can define the delay time from 1 to 60 seconds. During slide show you can switch to the preview mode by pressing any of the navigation buttons (left, right arrow, Page Up, Page Down, Home or End).Use ESC to stop slide show.

- Use Drag and Drop to copy image or selected images.

- Use Options dialog to tune the layout of Image Navigator and amount of the information displayed for every image.

 - Image Navigator is multithread application. You should not wait until all images read and can work with required image immediately when it appears.

  Image Navigator is closely integrated with Web Image Guru and HTML Organizer applications. When these applications are installed on your computer Image Navigator will unlock its extra functionality.


Integration with Web Image Guru

  Image Navigator is closely integrated with Web Image Guru (http://www.vimas.com/ve_guru.htm) - state of the art tool for Web graphics optimization.

 When Web Image Guru is installed correspond menu items will be automatically functional.

There are several ways to launch Web Image Guru from Image Navigator:

  Image Optimization

  Select the image or several images (use Ctrl and mouse click to select several images) and then use Image - Web Export menu item to run Web Image Guru. If several images where selected then they will be optimized in batch mode.

  Batch Processing

  Use Image - Batch processing menu item to run Web Image Guru batch processing module.

  HTML Image Optimization

  By HTML Image we mean the image that is included in the Web Page and there is an HTML file with the link to this image. Double click on HTML file in Image Navigator. It will show all images linked to the HTML file if any. Select required image and use Image - HTML Image Optimizing menu item. In this case Web Image Guru will be run with the current HTML file settings that allows make seamless integration of the optimized image into the Web Page.

  You can define the Web file formats that can be invoked in the HTML image optimization process in the options dialog. This allows you to run batch HTML image optimization for only GIF images (for example).

  For all modes you can alternatively use context menu that appears with right mouse click on the image or toolbar buttons.


Integration with HTML Organizer

  Image Navigator is closely integrated with HTML Organizer (http://www.vimas.com/ve_selector.htm) - just great utility that will help to organize and analyze your Web Pages.

  Due to this integration you can quickly receive the information about HTML files where current image is used.

If HTML Organizer is installed on your computer then you can use Image-Links on me.. menu item to display the list of HTML files with the links to current image.


Options

Options dialog allows you to setup Image Navigator parameters:

Thumbnail width - the width of the thumbnail for image preview.

Thumbnail height - the height of the thumbnail for image preview.

Show image file name - display image file name under thumbnail.

Preview largest image for HTML file - use the largest image linked to HTML file for HTML file icon.

HTML Image Optimizing - select the list of the Web Image Formats that will be used for HTML image optimizing. If you select only GIF format, then only GIF images will be invoked in batch HTML Image optimizing.


Send product suggestions

Dear customers, please send your product suggestions, comments and bug reports to support@vimas.com.


Thumbnail Size

Thumbnail width - the width of the thumbnail for image preview.

Thumbnail height - the height of the thumbnail for image preview.


Show image file name

Display image file name under thumbnail.


Html Image Preview

Use the largest image linked to HTML file for HTML file icon.


HTML Image Optimizing

HTML Image Optimizing - select the list of the Web Image Formats that will be used for HTML image optimizing. If you select only GIF format, then only GIF images will be invoked in batch HTML Image optimizing.


Upgrade

Image Navigator is closely integrated with two other products: Web Image Guru -state of the art tool for Web graphics optimization (http://www.vimas.com/ve_guru.htm) and HTML Organizer  - just great utility that will help to organize and analyze your Web Pages (http://www.vimas.com/ve_selector.htm).

If you install these products then correspond menus of Image Navigator will be unlocked and you can significantly expand the functionality of Image Navigator.

Integration with Web Image Guru

Integration with HTML Organizer