This is a very useful file managing program. Just
like the name, it creates thumbnails for
files. For images it creates a real thumbnail of the image, while
for other types of file it
uses the icons associated from windows explorer. The program
covers a rather wide range of file
formats, most of them are image file format. It covers most of
image file format (including
.dwg .wmf .cdr), also icon, animation, quicktime movies, mpg, wav
files and documents and text
files. A wonderful feature is the ability to create thumbnails
for true type fonts, and
installing them to your windows.
The thumbnails are stored in a database file with .tdb extension.
Each database can be
customized individually. The customize option includes thumbnail
size, cursor shape, toolbar,
tree views, what's shown on each thumbnail (file name, size,
date), colors used, etc. The
setback with the database files is the size, the more files you
have thumbnails for, the bigger
the database file. For example, I made a database for over 4000
images, and gets a tdb file of
23 MB. There are other things that affects the size of the tdb
file.
T+ (as the company addresses it) also provides a simple editing
tool for images. Like crop, resize, and rotate, but not paste. It
also have autocrop and color correction. Saving edited image
files will reveal additional qualities of this program. T+
provides a wide range of options for file savings, like file
compression system from very common to unpopular compression
system like JPEG and ZIP for tif. Before saving a jpeg file you
get to see what the saved file will be, since there's a loss on
jpeg compression. But if you edit a jpeg file and save it
directly as the same file, the loss is smaller compared with
other image viewers (including LViewPro, VuePrintPro, PolyView).
The only similar program I've encountered is Jasc Media Center,
and Corel Multimedia Manager 6
but Corel is not shareware. Jasc Media Center can be used on
Windows 3.1. But Jasc is much
slower on creating thumbnails. Not only that, the thumbnail
database file is much bigger. Media
Center also doesn't support font viewing and thumbnailing.
Converting image format with Media
Center is also not a recommended thing. Media Center is also less
customizable. The advantage
Media Center has is that the thumbnail doesn't have to be sorted.
Thumbnails here can be placed
in no particular order by dragging with the mouse.
Additional features of Thumbsplus:
Thumbnails autosort, assigning bitmaps as wallpaper and removing
wallpaper, UUE decoding, fast image decompression, contact sheet
creator, hi quality format converter, thumbnail export, automatic
keyword assignment, thumbnail color depth selection, able to read
large files, support gif transparencies, etc.
(I'm not very objective about this part)(help files and e-mail)
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