photoken wrote:I strongly feel that the developers should spend time on enhancing the photographic tools, rather than trying to duplicate the features of image management apps.
I agree - however some rather small enhancements to the "
Bildübersicht" would come in useful since it is a powerful tool to manipulate a lot of images and to "script" photoline.
o) Do not store the dictionary when saving a pre-set for conversion dialog. Right now the pre-set works in a way, that makes it difficult to apply an action (as saved pre-set) to multiple directories. It makes sometimes sense to store the dictionary with the pre-set, but it should be optional (i.e. add a check box "lock" right to the edit field)
p) Show and assign stars (1-5) and markers (accepted, rejected, unmarked) to image files. Sort and filter by stars and markers.
q) I believe it would make sense to split up menu #1 into File/View/Conversion tools
r)
Add a tool to load selected JPEG files into one selected master PLD file. This feature makes use of the suggested feature
"b) Placement Gruppe - Hier anstatt "Replace" auch Namen wie "Replace+1", "Replace+2" ... erlauben um das jeweilig nächste, bzw übernächste (...) Bild aus der Kommandozeile einzuladen sobald das PLD geöffnet wird."
. I can imagine this tool to work like the mass-conversion tool with the distinction that the destination is not at folder but a document PLD file. The idea behind this is, that with a few template files this tool can create image catalogs, much more variable than the provided, rather fixed catalog feature. The program logic can be rather simple, it just requires the "Placement" groups and in addition a
logic, to duplicate the last page of a document which contains placement groups until all selected image files have been inserted. (With this logic, this feature automatically allows it to create a catalog with a title and and end page and as many as required pages inbetween.)
If this feature can be started from commandline too, it can be used also from external image directories, not only from the "Bildübersicht".
