Phoenix Slides

Phoenix Slides Mac Os X
Phoenix Slides Big Sur

Overview

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Phoenix Slides is a fast full-screen slideshowprogram and image browser. You can also use it to do lossless JPEGtransformations and view EXIF data. It requires Mac OS X 10.9 or later.

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Contents:

Usage

Use the directory listing at the top of the window tonavigate to a directory. You can also drag files or foldersinto the window or onto the application icon. Start a slideshowby clicking on the 'Slideshow' button, hitting the return key,or double-clicking an image's thumbnail.

Using the directory listing

In addition to the usual clicking, you can also type indirectory names to jump directly to them.

The first column of the directory listing contains a list ofmounted volumes. This list is updated automatically when disksare inserted or ejected. The list is also updated if the currentfolder is moved, renamed, or deleted. To refresh the listingfor all other file system changes (new files, renaming ofother folders, etc.), click on a folder name and its contents willbe updated.

Check 'Subfolders' to have the program search allsubdirectories for images. When building the list of images,it will go into subdirectories as it comes across them(the search is depth-first). This feature can be amusing when lookinginto application bundles.

You can drag a folder or a file in that folder into the windowto jump to that directory. If you drag image files,they will be selected in the thumbnail view. (You can also dragnon-image files to navigate to a directory; this is to be construedas a feature. :-)

When you choose a folder to browse, the program builds a list of imagefiles (based on the file extension (like .jpg) and the four-lettertype code (like 'PICT')). Phoenix Slides supports all image typesthat Mac OS X supports (i.e., everything NSImage can read).

Thumbnails

After getting the list of filenames, the program starts generatingthumbnails of each of the images. Thumbnails are cached in memoryand discarded when you quit the program.

Phoenix Slides displays basic information (name, size, dimensions)about the currentlyselected file(s) in the status bar at the bottom of the window.

You can resize the thumbnails to display anywhere from 40 to 160pixels wide. (They're stored 160 pixels wide internally.)

For those who care: Phoenix Slides uses the Epeg library for fastthumbnailing of JPEGs. Non-JPEG files, on the other hand,will be thumbnailed slowly. =P

Selecting images

You can select images to start a slideshow with them,move them to the trash, reveal them in the Finder, or setan image as the desktop background. To select an image, clickon it. Shift-click to extend the selection; command-click toreverse the selection. You can also select images by draggingaround them (in the whitespace).

Use the arrow keys on the keyboard to change the selection(this only works when exactly one image is selected, though).

Dragging images

Drag images to another program to open them withthat program, or to the Finder to copy the files.

Reveal in Finder

The 'Reveal in Finder' menu item can be handy for file operationsthat are beyond the limits of drag and drop. If one or more files are selected,Phoenix Slides tells the Finder to show those files. If you have 'Subfolders'checked and your files are from different directories, the specific behaviorwill be up to the Finder. If no files are selected, the Phoenix Slides willsimply open the selected folder in the Finder.

Slideshows

Starting a slideshow will do different things dependingon the current selection:

If no items are selected, it starts a slideshow with all images starting at the first image.
If one item is selected, it starts a slideshow with all images starting at the selected image.
If multiple items are selected, it starts a slideshow with just the selected images.

You can start a slideshow any time after the list of filenamesis compiled (you don't have to wait for all the thumbnails to load).

During the slideshow

You control the slideshow using the keyboard. Hit 'h' or '?' duringthe slideshow to see all the commands (reproduced below). If you needaccess to the menu, move the mouse to the top of the screen.

Hit one of the number keys (1-9) to auto-advance the slideshow every1-9 seconds. Hit the space bar to pause/continue auto-advance.Hit '0' to stop auto-advance. Hitting akey to go backwards also stops the auto-advance.

By default, images smaller than the screen will be shown atactual size. To expand them to fill the screen, choose 'Scale UpSmaller Images' from the Slideshow menu (or hit command-E--think'embiggen').

If you want to zoom in on an image, use +/- (especially convenienton the numeric keypad). Use '=' to zoom to actual size (100%). You canget back to the default size (fit to screen) by hitting '*'.When the image is larger than the screen, you can use the number keyson the numeric keypad to scroll around (1-9, except 5). Your scrollwheel will work also, if your mouse has one.

Ordinarily, the slideshow stops when you reach the last slide.You can enable loop mode through the Slideshow menu. This will causethe slideshow to wrap around to the first slide after the last one.Combined with auto-advance, this would cause the slideshow to go onforever.

You can switch to other programs while the slideshow is running(using command-tab, for example). It'll keep going merrily along behindyour other windows. Click on the slideshow window to bring it back tothe front.

Slideshow cheat sheet

space	pause/continue auto-advance; go next
→↓	go next
←↑	go previous
page down	go forward 10
page up	go back 10
home	go to first slide
end	go to last slide
0	pause auto-advance
1-9	auto-advance every n seconds
!	auto-advance every 1/2 second
h, ?	show/hide this cheat sheet
i	show/hide filename
⇧I	more EXIF tags
F2-F12	assign to group n
⌘F2-F12	toggle group assignment
F1	remove group assignment
r	rotate right (90° clockwise)
l	rotate left (90° counter-clockwise)
⌘E	scale up small images
+/-	zoom in/out
=	actual pixels
*	zoom to fit
1-9 (num keypad)	scroll zoomed image
esc, q	end slideshow

JPEG Transformations

Phoenix Slides can do lossless transformations on JPEG files.In fact, it uses code from jpegtran (including the EXIF patch),and supports most of its advanced options, which are brieflyexplained below:

Drop Nontransformable Edge Blocks - Lossless rotationis only perfect for images whose size is a multiple of the iMCU blocksize, usually 8 or 16. The 'imperfect' blocks on the edge can betrimmed, if desired, though of course this is an irreversible operation.Here's more from the jpegtran docs:

Make Progressive - Creates images suitable forincremental display over slow communication links. Progressive JPEG filesconsist of a series of scans of increasing quality.

Optimize Huffman Table - Slower, butcreates slightly smaller files.

Grayscale - Simply removes the color (chrominance)information, leaving grayscale (luminance) data intact.

JPEG Markers - Various options to remove JPEG commentsand other data (such as EXIF information) stored in the header of JPEG files.

Phoenix Slides will warn you if you attempt a nonreversible operation.

Groups/Categories

Phoenix Slides provides a method to temporarily group or categorizeimages. During a slideshow, hit one of the F2-F12 keys to assign an imageto a group. Then, in the thumbnail view, hit F2-F12 to see images inthe corresponding group. You can also hit command-F2(through F12) to togglean image's group assignment in both slideshow and thumbnail views.To clear all category assignments, hit F1 during a slideshow, or command-F1when viewing thumbnails. Assigning images to groups can be useful for batchoperations, e.g., selecting a bunch of images to perform a JPEG rotation on.

Naturally, you will not be able to use those function keys whichthe system or third party utilities have reserved for other things,the F9-F12 defaults for Exposé and Dashboard being the mostnotable examples. However, you can usually work around this byholding down either the control or option key when pressing F1-F12.

Categories are temporary and will be lost when Phoenix Slides quits.You should think of this functionality as a sort of fancy selection mechanism.

The Phoenix Slides story

One day, Jim (the professor in charge at the research project I work at)brought in some CDs of photos from Thailand. Let's look at these pictures,he said. We searched the Macs in the office for suitable slideshow programs,but to no avail. We ended up using the full-screen mode in Preview. Itwas... painful. We couldn't even rotate the images in full-screen mode.So I decided to write my own.

Remember Curator, the now-abandoned image organizer program byCaffeine Software? It's nice, but (1) it's dead, (2) the directorylisting acts funny, and (3) you have to wait for a thumbnail to be generatedbefore you can view an image in a slideshow (WHY?!). I wanted my programto rectify these problems, so Phoenix Slides isinspired in part by Curator.

Why Phoenix? Aside from its mythological significance, the phoenixis also featured prominently on the San Francisco city flag (that's wherewe're based). Plus, I'm a fan of Fawkes (Dumbledore's phoenix in theHarry Potter books).

Acknowledgements

Thanks to David Chow and his uncanny ability to crash my program.

Phoenix Slides Mac Os X

Thanks to all the localizers: Thomas Steg of Karlsruhe (Germany) - German;César Piñera - Spanish;Laurent Bovet - French;Silvano Dotti - Italian.

Thanks to all those who make their source code available tolearn from/adapt to other purposes, including rasterman (Epeg),Allan Hsu (Magic Lantern), and Marc Liyanage (EpegWrapper).

Thanks to Adrian Gonzales atThe Icestorm Network for generouslyproviding server space.

Thanks to Takeshi Gondo for an icon that's been better received than mine.

And finally, thanks to my old boss at my dead-end job for'terminating' me. Let Phoenix Slides be a testament to the advantagesof unemployment.

Help Wanted

Looking for localization help: If you want to translatePhoenix Slides to your language pleasecontact me.

You can also contribute by offeringprogramming help or making a donation along the lines of books(Cocoa, perl, linguistics), money, or skateboarding stuff.

Version History

2019.11.13 1.4.5

fix slideshow window position when menubar is hidden on macOS 10.15
resize slideshow window when changing displays
notarized for GateKeeper on macOS 10.15 (Catalina)

2018.11.30 1.4.4

fix crash when showing categories in thumbnail view
restore the 'Show Large Images at Actual Size' feature

2018.11.20 1.4.3

support pinch gesture to zoom
support Dark Mode in macOS 10.14
fix slow drawing/high CPU usage when displaying lots of thumbnails
change description for 'on startup' preference to 'when opening a new window' to more accurately describe the behavior with the system's 'restore windows' preference
notarize app for macOS 10.14

2016.05.28 1.4.2

fix bug where slideshow would not start if 'Random' mode was selected

2016.05.23 1.4.1

fixed bug where thumbnail view was clipped until the window was resized (this only happened on OS X 10.11)
fixed bug with 'Apply Settings' button in Slideshow Settings
windows are now restored when the app is re-opened (if the preference is checked in the 'General' System Preferences)
added 'Open With' contextual menu
fixed bug with scroll position of thumbnail view
fixed type-to-select in directory browser
better handling of invisible files
fixed crash when starting a slideshow at launch
fixed some localizations

Phoenix Slides Big Sur

2014.08.21 1.4

code-signed for Gatekeeper on 10.9.5
added preference to hide certain files types (e.g., pdf files)
now requires OS X 10.9 or later (major code rewrite!)

2014.05.14 1.3.1

fixed crash when changing the sort order (e.g. when sorting by last modified)
reenable scrollwheel navigation in slideshows when using a non-Magic Mouse
fixed slideshow window not appearing when window is moved to a second display on OS X 10.9
fixed problem where Phoenix Slides stopped noticing if a folder you were browsing got renamed or moved
fixed bug in slideshow: file deleted in browser window was not updated in the slideshow
improved handling of invisible folders
update version check to handle larger system versions
fixed some cosmetic bugs (degree symbol in EXIF info; display of non-integer auto-advance times)

2014.01.11 1.3

thumbnails load immediately when you scroll to them
you can now change from random to sequential during a slideshow
code-signed to run with Gatekeeper on 10.7+
limit placed on number of thumbnails automatically loaded (This avoids app crashes. You can change this value to anything from 0 to something very large. The default is 3000. Type something like defaults write net.blyt.phoenixslides maxThumbsToLoad -int 8000 in a Terminal window.)
hit option-left/up and option-right/down to jump to the previous/next sequential slide while in random mode
added visual indicator when looping a slideshow
now shows empty screen when removing last slide (instead of going backwards)
autorotate setting saved across launches
autorotate setting available in slideshows as well
disabled use of scrollwheel/scrolling to advance slideshows (this feature didn't play well with the Magic Mouse)
relative paths (not just file names) are shown at the bottom of the browser window
handles mixed-case file extensions (.JpEg)
JPEG menu items now correctly enabled even if first selected item is not a JPEG
fixed 'show file names' menu item checkmark
fixed exception when mounting a new disk
fixed exception when user typed a dead key (e.g. option-e)
fixed erroneous 'there is a new version' message when the server returns a bad HTTP status code
updated to exiftags 1.01
improved French and Italian localizations

2012.10.14 1.2.8

info bar during slideshow is now hidden by default; showing/hiding of the info bar is now retained when quitting
universal binary again! the last version inadvertently dropped support for powerpc machines. (although, this will probably be the last version to support anything before 10.6)

2012.07.27 1.2.7

sort thumbnails by name or date
names in the browser are sorted by name now
thumbnail window now auto-rotates JPEGs with orientation tags (e.g. from your iPhone)
new 'Rotate by Tag' command to apply a lossless JPEG rotation according to the orientation tag
in slideshow mode: added a new command to save the currently displayed orientation using lossless JPEG rotation
JPEG rotation commands are now applied relative to the currently displayed orientation
hitting '*' during slideshow now resets rotation and flip (in addition to zoom)
added hidden preference to not re-randomize at the start of a new loop when both 'Loop' and 'Random' are active: type defaults write net.blyt.phoenixslides Slideshow:RerandomizeOnLoop -boolean NO in a Terminal window
fixed bug where super-skinny images might crash the browser (thanks to Luis Lozano)
fixed: white line on the right side of some 180-degree rotations
fixed bug where you're stuck in a slideshow if you dragged something to the Phoenix Slides icon, then switch to view a particular 'category', then switched away from that window (e.g. another app) and back again (thanks to Doc O'Leary)
fixed bug where a jpeg would remain flipped in the slideshow after modifying it
fixed bug where slideshow rotations would be stored incorrectly after flipping
fixed: aliases in slideshows can now show EXIF info
fixed: replace thumb works with aliases
updated some localizations

2009.08.31 1.2.6

works with Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
when slideshow is running, slideshow no longer switches screens
when running in random AND loop mode, re-randomize at the start of each loop
fixed crash on badly formatted ('field type mismatch') EXIF headers
improved Italian localization

2009.03.23 1.2.5

fixed - no more white line in scaled-down images
new preference for larger thumbnails
new preference to allow moving files/making aliases
new - hit 'f' to flip during slideshow
new - shift-space goes back
new - set thumbnail background color
fixed - dragging to trash can now removes thumbnail from view (bug introduced in 1.2)
fixed bug when reading JPEG Comments with 8-bit characters

2007.05.01 1.2.4

fixed crash when reading certain non-standard EXIF headers
fixed sporadic hangs (spinning wheel cursor, often affected Intel machines)
fixed white line drawing artifacts in thumbnail view
some internal changes to work with resolution independence (in anticipation of Leopard)

2007.04.20 1.2.3

New icon (thanks to Takeshi Gondo)
Selected thumbnail now matches last viewed slide
Items now sorted by filename (Finder order)
Skips folders named 'Thumbs' (for better iPhoto library browsing)
fixed - exif thumb popup menu now hides when info window is collapsed
fixed - ghost of last thumbnail no longer remains when deleting a file
fixed - jpeg transformations no longer cause menubar/dock to show during slideshows
Italian localization

2006.10.25 1.2.2

Auto-rotate JPEGs according to EXIF Orientation tag
JPEG rotations now reset orientation tag, fixing an inconsistency with Preview
reset orientation tag, delete/rebuild EXIF thumbnail
JPEG rotations also rotate EXIF thumbnail
left- and right-click now go forward/back in slideshow; double-click ends slideshow
scroll wheel can be used to navigate slideshow
command-+/- can now zoom in/out slideshow
hand cursor appears when you can drag zoomed images
new and improved preferences window
set slideshow background color/transparency (perhaps not very useful but very cool)
resizable columns in the folder browser
fixed crash when exiting slideshow with images waiting to be cached (also made currentIndex volatile)
fixed: jpeg files with non-EXIF APP1 tags no longer cause problems with selection/info display
fixed: jpeg rotation during slideshow didn't update if 'don't change modification date' was checked
fixed: rotating and trashing files in thumbnails window will now cause slideshow to update too
French localization

2006.01.03 1.2.1

added - show EXIF info during slideshow
added - show all images at actual size in slideshow
opening files now starts a slideshow immediately
zoom settings now stick around until you quit
option to preserve file modification date when performing lossless JPEG transformations
fixed incorrectly enabled menu items during slideshow
fixed scrolling bug with numeric keypad 2, 4, 6, 8
fixed drawing glitch when hiding slideshow cheat sheet
fixed bug where slideshow showed up in the wrong location with multiple monitors
compiled to run on both ppc and x86 architecture
Spanish localization

2005.08.03 1.2

zoom in/out in slideshow
lossless JPEG rotations/transformations
get info window with EXIF info, JPEG comments, etc.
ability to open multiple thumbnail windows
ability to assign images to temporary groups/categories
random order slideshows
slightly faster thumbnail loading for non-JPEGs
automatic version checking
German localization
fixed - preferences not always saved on quit

2005.07.06 1.1

status bar (name, size, dimensions)
resizable thumbnails
animated GIFs in slideshow
slideshow option to zoom small images to size of screen
pressing 1-9 now starts auto-advance right away
pressing space now pause/continues auto-advance
speed/memory optimizations in thumbnail view
navigate thumbnails using arrow keys
folder listing shows mounted volumes at the top level
folder listing automatically updates on volume mount, folder move/rename/delete
fixed - thumbnail view sometimes skipped images
fixed (very) occasional hang on launch

2005.04.28 1.0 first public release.

Contact/License

Official web site:http://blyt.net/phxslides/

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Copyright 2005-2019 by Dominic Yu. This software is free and open source.You are free to use it for non-commercialpurposes. Derivative works must give proper credit to me and be shared underthe same license, unless I give written permission stating otherwise.

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