• explorer replacement with BIG file preview

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    From: Ammammata <ammammata@tiscalinet.it>
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    Subject: explorer replacement with BIG file preview
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    as per subject, I'm looking for an explorer replacement to manage PDF
    files, moving/copying between folders

    the default thumbnail view is not enough to show the content

    the idea is a three-pane explorer, like in recent windows: the folder tree, the folder content and the pdocument preview

    any suggestion?

    TIA

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    Google:
    windows explorer size of thumbnail

    Top result: https://www.online-tech-tips.com/windows-xp/how-to-increase-windows-explorer-de fault-thumbnail-size-for-pictures/

    Look for the info under "ThumbnailSize Registry Hack"

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    From: Ammammata <ammammata@tiscalinet.it>
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    Subject: Re: explorer replacement with BIG file preview
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    Il giorno Thu 23 Nov 2017 02:52:10p, *R.Wieser* ha inviato su microsoft.public.windowsxp.general il messaggio news:ov6jqm$1pok$1@gioia.aioe.org. Vediamo cosa ha scritto:


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    thank you

    I used good old powertoys tweakui to increase to the maximim size, 256
    pixels

    that's not yet enough, for sure a windows pane with readable preview, like
    in w7/8/10 is the proper solution

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    From: VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH>
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    Subject: Re: explorer replacement with BIG file preview
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    Ammammata wrote:

    as per subject, I'm looking for an explorer replacement to manage PDF
    files, moving/copying between folders

    the default thumbnail view is not enough to show the content

    the idea is a three-pane explorer, like in recent windows: the folder tree, the folder content and the pdocument preview

    Assuming you enabled display of the preview pane in Windows Explorer,
    why can't you drag its left-side border to increase its width? Hover
    the mouse cursor over the left vertical border of the preview pane until
    the cursor turns into a doubled horizontal arrow then click and drag.
    With Windows Explorer and with its preview pane expanded to occupy half
    the screen, you can click on a .pdf file and read it in the preview pane
    very easily without having to double-click the file to load it into a
    PDF viewer program.

    I haven't been on Windows XP for many years so I wasn't sure if its
    Windows Explorer had a preview pane. So I searched online using:

    https://www.google.com/search?q=%22windows+xp%22+preview+pane+size

    and found as the 2nd article:

    https://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us /nwspr_customize_preview_pane.mspx

    If you don't want to use the preview pane then increase the size of the thumbnails. In the above Google search, the following was the 1st
    article:

    https://www.online-tech-tips.com/windows-xp/how-to-increase-windows-explorer-de fault-thumbnail-size-for-pictures/
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    In message <XnsA836A166691E3ammammatatiscalineti@148.251.67.112>,
    Ammammata <ammammata@tiscalinet.it> writes:
    Il giorno Thu 23 Nov 2017 02:52:10p, *R.Wieser* ha inviato su >microsoft.public.windowsxp.general il messaggio >news:ov6jqm$1pok$1@gioia.aioe.org. Vediamo cosa ha scritto:


    Top result:
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    lorer-default-thumbnail-size-for-pictures/



    thank you

    I used good old powertoys tweakui to increase to the maximim size, 256
    pixels

    that's not yet enough, for sure a windows pane with readable preview, like
    in w7/8/10 is the proper solution

    You mentioned in your original post .pdf files. Would I be right in
    thinking that in effect you want a _viewer_, e. g. that can show more
    than the firs page in the case of .pdf files rather than just a
    thumbnail (of the first page) however large? Like perhaps email
    software, with a "preview pane" option (as most email softwares have)?
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    From: Ammammata <ammammata@tiscalinet.it>
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    Subject: Re: explorer replacement with BIG file preview
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    Il giorno Thu 23 Nov 2017 06:17:28p, *J. P. Gilliver (John)* ha inviato su microsoft.public.windowsxp.general il messaggio news:UrQlInIoKwFaFw68@soft255.demon.co.uk. Vediamo cosa ha scritto:

    You mentioned in your original post .pdf files. Would I be right in
    thinking that in effect you want a _viewer_, e. g. that can show more
    than the firs page in the case of .pdf files rather than just a
    thumbnail (of the first page) however large?

    actually the need is this one:
    the lady in the office makes a lot of scans using the MFP, and saved PDF
    files have names like 20171124-115322.pdf (year, month, day, hour etc etc)

    after all the scans she goes back to her desktop and starts renaming and moving items fron the shared scan folder to proper destination directories, renaming with "intelligent" names

    but she still has a Win XP machine :(

    the first page is enough, no need to read page two or three

    thumbnails, even set at 256 pixel, are not clear enough to read i.e. the invoice number or the product code

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    From: Ammammata <ammammata@tiscalinet.it>
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    Subject: Re: explorer replacement with BIG file preview
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    Il giorno Thu 23 Nov 2017 05:54:44p, *VanguardLH* ha inviato su microsoft.public.windowsxp.general il messaggio news:1m7f82ggvdbt1.dlg@v.nguard.lh. Vediamo cosa ha scritto:

    I haven't been on Windows XP for many years so I wasn't sure if its
    Windows Explorer had a preview pane.

    that's it

    she will change the computer in about 9-12 months (it's in the next year budget) but meanwhile she'd like to speed up his tasks (as explained in the other post)

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    Ammammata wrote:
    Il giorno Thu 23 Nov 2017 06:17:28p, *J. P. Gilliver (John)* ha inviato su microsoft.public.windowsxp.general il messaggio news:UrQlInIoKwFaFw68@soft255.demon.co.uk. Vediamo cosa ha scritto:

    You mentioned in your original post .pdf files. Would I be right in
    thinking that in effect you want a _viewer_, e. g. that can show more
    than the firs page in the case of .pdf files rather than just a
    thumbnail (of the first page) however large?

    actually the need is this one:
    the lady in the office makes a lot of scans using the MFP, and saved PDF files have names like 20171124-115322.pdf (year, month, day, hour etc etc)

    after all the scans she goes back to her desktop and starts renaming and moving items fron the shared scan folder to proper destination directories, renaming with "intelligent" names

    but she still has a Win XP machine :(

    the first page is enough, no need to read page two or three

    thumbnails, even set at 256 pixel, are not clear enough to read i.e. the invoice number or the product code


    The solution is simple :-) With a big marker pen,
    write the name of the document on a separate
    sheet of blank paper, and put it in front of the
    first sheet of the document to be scanned. It
    will function as the "name" sheet. If the
    letters are large enough, they can be read
    in the thumbnail view.

    Paul
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