Not just for comic books, but for many people, like myself, who work with nontechnical individuals, this is how large groups of image files are distributed. Instead of keeping tack of 100 individual image files, you keep track of a single zip. Also as was pointed out, the reason for this is not size, it is convenience. Only when they are treated exactly the same way as folders, natively or via an add-on, will XnView be usable as my full time image software.įirst of all, as was pointed out, this is the standard format for distributing digital comics, so saying no one uses it is grossly inaccurate. The lack of ability to use standard methods for moving around inside these files is crippling.
#XNVIEW MP ZIP ARCHIVE#
The way the archive add-on for XnView currently works is in no way shape or form a suitable or useful replacement for the way ACDSee handles these files. Many things are distributed as large numbers of image files inside a zip or rar file so as to distribute a single file instead of a large number of separate files, and not being able to view these types of pseudo-folders is an extremely large problem, since about 80% of what I use a program like XnView to look at is in this format. What I need to be able to do is browse around these files with all features enabled, such as being able to go to the next and previous file, use a slideshow, and other strictly viewing oriented functions. Editing the files inside works differently (mostly, you can't, although in the newer versions they have gotten some features to work), but I am not concerned with this. In ACDSee, a zip or rar is 100% identical to a regular folder for the purpose of browsing. The behavior of zip and rar files as no different than folders is the one and only reason I am still using ACDSee.
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