 Options
| Preferences | General
This option displays a dialog box which allows
you to set the parameters for the operation of ThumbsPlus
Automatically Crop Images. Automatically
crops, by removing all continuous border of the same color,
any image. This may be on or off for each of the following operations:
On copy to clipboard
When making thumbnails
When viewing
Default Action. Selects the default action
(taken for a double-click with the left mouse button). Select
one of the following operations:
View Image
Copy to Clipboard
Edit Image
Minimize ThumbsPlus. Selects times when
you would like the ThumbsPlus main window to automatically reduce
to an icon for less screen clutter; similar to the Minimize
on Use option in the program manager. You may elect to minimize
ThumbsPlus at any of the following times:
When viewing
On copy to clipboard
When editing an image
Save files in. Using this option, you
can select the default location for any "Save as"
operation from a view window. Selecting Current directory
will use the current path from the main ThumbsPlus window, while
selecting Last saved location will remember each time
you save a file, and use that location as the default the next.
Show orphaned thumbnails. Orphaned thumbnails
(thumbnails for files which have been removed or moved by another
program) can be shown in the file list; however, this option
slows the file list display as ThumbsPlus scans the database
for any entries which do not have corresponding files on disk.
Automatically removed orphaned thumbnails.
Selecting this will cause ThumbsPlus to scan for orphaned thumbnails
(thumbnails for files that have been removed from another program)
whenever you change directories, and automatically remove them.
You may instead remove orphans manually using the Remove
Orphans option on the Thumbnail menu.
 Use
recycle bin for deleted files. This option tells ThumbsPlus
to move deleted files to the Recycle Bin, rather than directly
removing them from the disk. This option is available only on
Windows 95, 98 and NT 4.0.
Open view window for all selected files (rather
than 1st). This selection determines how many windows ThumbsPlus
opens when multiple files are selected any you pick Picture
| View. If you select this option, then a view window will
appear for each selected file; otherwise, only a single view
window is created.
Match network drives using share names. When
ThumbsPlus searches for a match between network volumes stored
in the database and those accessible from the system, it can
use two methods for determining whether volumes match:
- Volume labels. In this case, if the
volume label in the database matches the drive, ThumbsPlus
assumes a match. This is the default.
- Network share name. In this case,
the labels must still match, but the share name is checked
also. This prevents problems that occur when multiple shared
volumes are mounted with the same volume label (for example,
when two different directories are shared separately from
the same drive).
 Options
| Preferences | File Types
This tabe shows the list of file types recognized
by ThumbsPlus. You can select which types you want ThumbsPlus
to display in the file list.
To show files using a mask rather than by type,
use Options | Preferences | File List
to set the name mask.
New. Runs the File
Type Configuration dialog box so you can define a new file
type for ThumbsPlus to handle.
Configure. Runs the File
Type Configuration dialog box to change the configuration
of a specific file type.
Select All. Select this option to show
all configured file types in ThumbsPlus. Files that are not
recognized will not have thumbnails, but you can move, copy,
delete and rename these files.
Clear All. Select this option clear all
selected file types, so you can start selecting from scratch.
 Options
| Preferences | File List
Order by. Selects
the order in which files are displayed in the file list. You
can sort by name, extension, size or date. You can also change
the sort method using the Options
| Sort by menu.
Show for each file. Select the items
you wish to view for each file. These items may also be selected
using the Options
| Show for files menu.
Name mask. Check this box and enter a
mask to select files based on a mask rather than on the types
selected in the File Type
dialog box.
Thumbnail display size. ThumbsPlus can
enlarge or reduce the thumbnails on the fly. This is especially
useful for very high resolution displays (1240x1024 and higher),
or if you want to see a lot of thumbnail simultaneously. Select
the desired thumbnail size here. The stretching operation makes
the file list display slightly slower. The options available
are 50%, 75%, 100%, 150% and 200%. This selection may also be
made from the Options |
Thumbnail size menu.
Include hidden files. Causes ThumbsPlus
to display system and hidden files in addition to normal files.
Show font names. When this is selected,
ThumbsPlus will scan TrueType font files and load the font names.
It will display these instead of the file names. Additionally,
the font names will be green if the font is installed.
Left justify file names. Selecting this
option will display the file names left-justified under the
thumbnails, rather than centered.
 Options
| Preferences | Colors
Use this tab to select the colors for the various
ThumbsPlus user interface elements. To modify a color, simply
click on the button and select a new color from the list. You
may use the mouse or the keyboard (arrow keys and Enter) to
select a color.
 Options
| Preferences | Confirmations
This menu selection allows you to configure
which items ThumbsPlus prompts for confirmation. For example,
if you want ThumbsPlus to make sure before deleting files, that
option should be checked.
Each option determines whether or not ThumbsPlus
will display a dialog box to confirm the listed operation after
it is selected.
 Options
| Preferences | Viewing
You control the operation of viewing files with
this dialog box.
Initial Size:
Automatic. The size of the view window
is based on the size of the image or metafile being displayed.
Full Screen. The entire screen is used
to display the picture, without menu bar or caption. See View
| Full Screen for more information on this mode.
Maximize. The window is maximized.
Minimize. The window is iconized.
Initial Stretching
Don't stretch. The image is not initially
stretched.
Fit images to window. The image is
always stretched or reduced to fill as much of the window
as possible (depending on the setting for Maintain aspect
ratio).
Reduce to fit window. Initially, the
image will be set to Stretch to fit mode only if the
image is larger than the window ThumbsPlus creates for it.
Otherwise, the image will be centered.
Fit images to width. The width of the
image will be stretched to fit the width of the window. This
is especially useful for documents in portrait orientation
(higher than wide).
Background color. Select a background
color for the sides or top if the window is larger than the
image.
Maximum number of open view windows.
Selects the maximum number of View windows which ThumbsPlus
can manage at one time. Select a number between 2 and 40. Once
this limit is reached (approximately), ThumbsPlus will close
the oldest window before opening another.
Maintain aspect ratio. The ratio between
the width and height of the image is kept constant, to avoid
distorting the image.
Dither Metafiles. Windows Metafiles generally
include 24-bit color information. On 256-color palette-based
displays, these colors will be dithered. ThumbsPlus generates
(up to) 236-color palettes for displaying metafiles, resulting
in much smoother displays. However, generating the palette and
modifying the metafile display to take it into account slows
the display process down. Select this option if you are in a
hurry. Also select this option if you are using a 16-color or
24-million color display driver, or if you get strange results
displaying or thumbnailing metafiles.
Show comments when available. If an image
has comments stored with it in the file, selecting this option
will cause ThumbsPlus to automatically display them. The View
| Edit Comments window displays automatically whenever you
view an image with comments. ThumbsPlus can read comment fields
from GIF, JPEG
and TIFF files.
Disable Undo. If you select this option,
ThumbsPlus will not save the information necessary to undo image
operations. This will speed up edit time and require less memory
and temporary disk space.
Show Toolbar. When you check this item,
ThumbsPlus will automatically create a toolbar for each view
window.
Show Status line. When you check this
item, ThumbsPlus will automatically create a status
line for each view window.
View while loading images. This option
causes ThumbsPlus to display the view window while loading each
image, so you can see the image as it loads. On some displays,
this may make the load take a bit longer.
 Options
| Preferences | Slide Show
This dialog box allows you to control the operation
during a Slide Show.
Delay between slides. Select either a
number of seconds that ThumbsPlus will wait between slides,
or mark the Control manually checkbox to manually switch
slides (using the left mouse button or the space bar).
Background color. Select the background
color to use for images smaller than the screen.
Skip files smaller than. When selected,
ThumbsPlus will not display raster images smaller than the entered
size (width and height).
Stretch bitmaps to screen. Causes ThumbsPlus
to stretch images to fill the screen as much as possible.
Reduce bitmaps to screen. Similar to
"Stretch," except that only bitmaps larger
than the screen are resized. Bitmaps smaller than the screen
size are centered.
Maintain original aspect ratios. When
stretching bitmaps, ThumbsPlus will ensure that the width-to-height
ratio remains constant, rather than distorting the image.
Hide cursor. Hides the mouse cursor during
the slide show.
Build bitmaps from metafiles. When this
checkbox is selected, ThumbsPlus will build an in-memory bitmap
from a metafile before displaying it. This eliminates watching
the metafile draw.
Show filenames. ThumbsPlus will display
the file name (at the bottom of the screen) of each file as
it displays in the slide show.
Random order. The list of file names
will be shuffled before the slide show begins.
 Options
| Preferences | Monitor
This tab allows you to calibrate the gamma correction
value for your monitor. A gamma value of 0.0 means that ThumbsPlus
will not gamma correct any image.
Simply adjust the scroll bar, using either the
arrows at the ends or by dragging the central box, until the
central gray square is as close as possible to the color of
the surrounding pattern. For best results, calibrate in a darkened
room.
As some monitors exhibit different characteristics
at different display resolutions and color depths, ThumbsPlus
will save a different gamma value for each combination.
Some image types have a specific gamma value
for which they are corrected (for example, GIF files are corrected
for a monitor gamma of 2.0). If you choose to use gamma correction,
you need to set each type appropriately, from the Assumed
Gamma dialog box. Unless this value is set for a specific
file type, it will not be adjusted.
 Options
| Preferences | Keywords
ThumbsPlus can automatically generate keywords
for images when making thumbnails. Use the selections in this
tab to control that process.
From words in file name. Assigns a keyword
based on each word in the file name of each image.
From complete file name. Assigns a keyword
based on the file name of each image.
From comment. Assigns keywords based
on each word in the comments residing in each image (for GIF,
JPEG and TIFF file types).
From file type. Assigns a keyword based
on the file type of each file (i.e., .JPG).
From attributes (color, etc.). Assigns
a keyword for color and encoding attributes of the file; for
example: raster, vector, palette, RGB, grayscale.
From IPTC keywords. JPEG
and TIFF images can have
IPTC/NAA keywords already in them. Selecting this option will
cause those keywords to be automatically copied to the ThumbsPlus
database.
 Options
| Preferences | Advanced
Use this tab to select modify several advanced
parameters for ThumbsPlus.
Maximum image bitmap cache size. For
images that require less than this much memory to load, ThumbsPlus
maintains an image bitmap to speed up repainting when the image
must be displayed. This size is based on the in-memory size
of the image, not the disk size of the image file.
Bitmap window size for larger images.
For images larger than the maximum bitmap cache size, ThumbsPlus
uses a bitmap "window" to display the image a piece
at a time. This parameter selects the size, in Kbytes, of that
window.
Thumbnail display cache size. ThumbsPlus
maintains a cache of thumbnails in memory. This field specifies
the amount of memory to use. If you specify a larger size, the
file list will display more quickly. The approximate number
of thumbnails that the size will support is shown.
Setting this field to zero works around problems
with some display adapters and drivers.
Copy metafiles to the clipboard at actual
size. Some applications do not handle proportional metafiles
from the clipboard well. If you find metafiles pasted into other
applications upside down or at really unusual sizes, select
this option.
Copy metafiles to the clipboard proportionally. This option
works for most applications. If metafiles are pasted very large
when actual size is set, try proportional instead.
 Options
| Preferences | File Types - File
Type Configuration
This dialog box, which is accessed from the
Options | File Types dialog
box using the New or Configure button, allows
you to define a new file type for ThumbsPlus to support, or
to modify the configuration of a specific type.
ThumbsPlus can recognize any file type it supports
internally, regardless of its specific name or extension. However,
for files accessed through external filters or OLE, the extension
may be important.
Extension. Enter the one, two or three
character extension (without the period) for the file type to
define.
Description. Enter a description of the
file type. If the file type is equivalent to another (see below)
you can leave the description blank --ThumbsPlus will automatically
use the description of the base file type.
Equivalent to type. If the file type
is equivalent to a type already known to ThumbsPlus, select
that type here. This will disable most of the other entries
in the dialog box, since the access to the type is defined through
its base type.
Class. Select the type of file. For most
purposes, Vector and Raster are appropriate. Several of the
types give more information about the type of file and may be
useful for categorizing OLE-based files. OLE-based types not
classed as Raster are loaded as Vector.
Load file using. Select the method that
ThumbsPlus should use to load the file:
Internal - ThumbsPlus should use its
internal loading routines to load the file. The file must
be recognizable by ThumbsPlus.
Filter - Use a Aldus Rev. 1 filter to load the file. The
next field (>>) should be used to select the
filter; if the list is blank, use the Hunt for filters button
to search for filters on your system.
OLE - ThumbsPlus should attempt to attach to an OLE server
for the file type to render it as a metafile or bitmap. Select
the appropriate server from the next (>>) field.
None - ThumbsPlus should not attempt
to load the file. It can still be shown in the file list,
with an appropriate icon, if Edit Using is set to Association.
Edit file using. Select the method that
ThumbsPlus should use to edit the file. Note that raster images
may be edited to some degree from within a ThumbsPlus view window.
Association - Use the Windows File
Manager association, as registered by FIle Manager, to launch
the program to edit the file. If you don't select a specific
item from the next list (>>), ThumbsPlus will
use the file extension to attempt to locate an association.
Command - Enter a specific command
to edit the file. You can use '%F' in the string as a token
to be replaced by the file name.
None - Don't attempt to launch an editor
for this file type.
Print file using. Select a method for
printing the file type. If it can be loaded into ThumbsPlus,
the Internal method usually works best. Otherwise, you
may select Command or Association, as described
under Edit File Using.
Mac Creator. The Mac creator type to use when saving
files of this type. ThumbsPlus will also recognize files based
on this value (in addition to the file extension). The default
is TPLS.
Mac Type. The Mac file type to use when saving files
of this type. ThumbsPlus will also recognize files based on
this value, in addition to the file extension.
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