- View your images by date using Calendar view. Want to find all of last year's holiday photos without having to dig through multiple folders? Simply open the "December 2001" view. View by day, week, month or year.
- Customize your software interface to suit your own needs. Add or remove buttons and windows to maximize the effectiveness of your digital workflow, resize thumbnails and specify which information to display with them.
- Save disk space and find your photos faster with the Category feature. Got digital photos from your sister's wedding this summer? You can display them in "summer photos," "wedding photos," and "family photos" categories without having to create copies of the originals.
- Save time with batch thumbnail creation. Don't want to wait for images to appear when you open a directory for the first time? Just get ACDSee 5.0 to create thumbnails for all folders and you'll never have to wait.
And much more!
If You Are Upgrading from Version 4.0
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We recommend you convert your database to an ACDSee 5.0 database. Converting your ACDSee 4.0 database saves you time and transfers all of your image information from ACDSee 4.0 to ACDSee 5.0. You won't have to reenter any database information! The conversion is just a few simple steps.
To convert an older ACDSee database:
1. Click Tools | Database | Convert Database.
2. Select the desired .ddf file.
3. Click Open.
View Your Files Faster - Catalog Them Now!
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Don't want to wait for images to appear when you open a directory for the first time? Just catalog your images now and you'll never have to wait for thumbnails to display. That's because ACDSee will already know about your thumbnails and have them stored in the database.
Plus, you can automatically add images to categories as you catalog - making it easy to find images fast later.
To catalog files in the database:
1. Click Tools | Database | Catalog Files.
2. Click the Browse button.
3. Select a folder of files that you want to catalog.
4. Click OK.
5. Select or change the Catalog options.
6. Click OK.
For further details on the Catalog options, click the Help file from the Catalog dialog box.
Known Issues in ACDSee 5.0.0
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1. Encoding multi-page DCX files does not work correctly - only the single page DCX files can be encoded.
2. Decoding a gray-scale TIFF with JPEG compression does not work correctly.
3. ACDSee cannot convert a multi-page TIFF to itself.
4. Images on Photo Discs cannot be associated with Categories.
5. Exiting ACDSee while a long operation is in progress (like copying or moving significant numbers of files) may cause ACDSee to fail. Wait for the operation to complete before exiting ACDSee.
6. SendPix may fail if it is the very first function used after a fresh install of ACDSee.
7. Photo DiscÆs update function does not correctly deal with CDs whose structure has changed.
8. When the screen is set to 16-bit color, and an image is acquired from the clipboard and then saved as a BMP, the image will be black. Save to another format.
9. Changing the user interface layout while the View tab is displayed may cause the screen to refresh incorrectly. Restarting will refresh the interface correctly.
10. Slides shows created with multi-page files as part of the file list, but where the first file is a single image file, may not work correctly.
11. Printing from ACDSee without the default printer connected may cause errors.
12. Browsing an empty disk or CD may display: "Warning: an error occurred while reading the contents of this folder."
13. If the ACDSee database date for an image is changed, the calendar view information is not updated. Press the F5 key to refresh the calendar view.
14. The file replace interaction may produce the message: "[file name]: Cannot create a file when that file already exists." when replacing a read-only file.
15. Rotating or flipping an image in multi-page files when applied to all pages of the current image may not work correctly when multiple images are selected and the first image has only one page.
16. Inserting an ampersand (&) into an image description will cause an underscore to display in the Thumb+Details mode. To display an ampersand, enter 2 in a row (&&).
17. Choosing a folder in the folder tree and choosing "Move to" from the Edit menu causes a spurious error message. The move completes successfully. Moving from the file list view works correctly.
18. Moving or copying files in ACDSee will retain any category information associated with the file. If the file is moved with a program other than ACDSee, the category information will be lost.
19. Occasionally the printing dialog can be hidden behind another window. Pressing Alt-Tab and selecting ACDSee will correct the problem.
20. Choosing the "Reset to Default" function from the Options dialog will reset the file display mode to Thumbnails.
21. The "New Media Detected" dialog box may display when a CD drive drawer is closed, even if these is no disk in the drive.
22. GIF comments are not preserved when an image is resized, rotated or the exposure changes.
23. ACDSee's RAR support does not include RAR 3.0.
24. Specifying slide show options on the command line will not work correctly if a wild carded (e.g. *.JPG) filename is included. Also, for reversed slideshows, the first image in the directory always appears first, followed by the rest in reverse order.
25. Certain QuickTime (.mov) files do no display correctly when the zoom size is 100%.
26. Browsing a network shortcut from the Browser Pane is very much slower than browsing via the Network Neighborhood.
27. ASF and WMV files cannot be played on Win98 unless Windows Media Player v7.1 or later is installed.
28. The Help hint for Sort by Date is incorrect - ACDSee sorts by 'Last modified time' not 'Creation time'.
29. The timeline slider may not function correctly with videos longer than 35 minutes.
30. Thumbnails on folders no not correctly refresh when the sort order is changed.
31. Viewing the license agreement may cause "spool32" errors if there is no default printer attached to the system.
32. Batch rename does not work for files selected from the Calendar or Category views.
33. If Photo Discs images disappear from the file list pane when browsing in Properties view, restart ACDSee to see the images again.
34. Entering very large (1000 or more) values into the thumbnail size values will cause odd behavior in the browser.
35. After changing the "Connect to ACDInTouch automatically" option, ACD InTouch must be started for the option to be recognized.
36. The progress indicator may appear to "stick" halfway through a resize operation when working on very small files.
