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Perhaps right click > Metadata > Edit comment (Ctrl D) ?
Select the appropriate field and edit ...

Comment is a file property, not a "classical" metadata (exif, iptc, xmp)


Thanks for your reply. That's very helpful and it seems to work. (For others: you may not have the Metadata menuitem in ...

When I perform a "Save As" operation, I typically want to save a copy of the image to the same folder as the current image, but with a different name.

XnView MP seems to always default to the desktop folder for the "Save As" operation.

Is there a way to allow "Save As" to default to the current ...

PNG files can have embedded comments. XnView MP will correctly show them in a file's properties dialog box.

However, I don't see a way to easily add/edit/delete PNG embedded comments for an existing image.

Can such functionality be added, please?

Related: https://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic ...

In XnView MP's "Save As" dialog box, one can click on "Options".

That will open the "Write settings" dialog box.

In this dialog box, one can click options such as "Keep EXIF", "Keep IPTC", or "Keep XMP".

There is no option, however, for PNG embedded comments. Thus, there seems to be no way to ...

xnview wrote: Wed Jan 04, 2023 12:54 pmon default theme?

Hi. Are you referring to the OS theme or an XnView MP theme?

The 'X' buttons I'm referring to are the ones in XnView MP's tab bar, which are distinct from those provided by the OS to close the XnView MP window itself.

Why doesn't the XnViewMP page on the website include the changelog for the latest version (1.4.0)? It only goes up to 1.3.1.


This has been an issue for quite some time. I finally stopped looking at the changelog on the main page because it was often outdated; instead I started coming to these ...

For landscape monitors (which is most monitors), vertical space is at a premium.

Unfortunately, when XnView MP's option to include close buttons (X) for each tab is enabled, the height of each tab increases significantly (at least on the systems I tested).

It will be beneficial to reduce the ...

Download hashes are wrong for at least some of the v1.40 releases (or the wrong/corrupt/infected files were placed on the server). For example, the 64 bit ZIP download is supposed to be:

AE05BB151F7AE6A33437376A8C3A6290B155B5C7B72D0B3CFEDD60A5A495E263
but is actually ...

Just FYI, the 64 bit 'SETUP' download does not match the currently posted hash (403A7D2BE73CFBCDED766013DE394965037161C2E69D42AC6CA66986F5DF8339)


Same problem with the 64 bit ZIP download which is supposed to be:
AE05BB151F7AE6A33437376A8C3A6290B155B5C7B72D0B3CFEDD60A5A495E263
but is actually ...

I upgraded to v1.40 on a Windows box, and it no longer honors the dark theme set in the OS.

I went through all the settings in the Settings UI, and couldn't find a solution.

After a bit more poking around, I found, View -> Theme, which fixes the issue (almost).

So for those with the same issue ...

Thank you for the update.

Please note that, according to my SHA256 hash tool, the SHA256 hash for the Win64 ZIP of version 1.02 currently available on https://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/#downloads does not match:

602292DFAAA2E8D530430FC203F6D7D4DA2AFF634D5E9C787F11C8ABADBAFC8B

Instead, it is ...

:bugconfirmed: Thanks to your detailed description I can reproduce the problem .


That's wonderful news Pierre. I'm glad I could help you.

Thank you for the marvelous software and for the bug fix.

I'm looking forward to lossless transformations whenever you find the time to release the next ...

xnview wrote: Mon Jul 19, 2021 12:36 pm and if you wait a little, is it available?

Thanks for your reply Pierre.

I tried waiting a couple minutes, but it never becomes available.

Typically, I launch XnView MP by double-clicking on an image file. When I do this, "JPEG Lossless Transformations" are not available (the menuitem is dimmed). Performing a rotate then renders a lossy image.

If, instead, I launch XnView MP without any file specified, then search for the file within ...