User Guide

Chapter 9: Customizing
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Setting Viewer options
You can use the ACDSee Options dialog box to adjust the behavior of the Viewer to suit your
preferences, and increase the speed with which images are displayed.
To set the Viewer options:
1. Click Tools | Options.
2. In the Options dialog box, click Viewer.
3. On the Viewer options page, set or change any of the Viewer options described below.
4. Click OK to accept your changes and return to ACDSee.
Viewer options
Decoding and
caching
Decode next
image in advance
Automatically decodes the next image in sequence
in the Viewer, resulting in shorter load times.
Keep previous
image in memory
Keeps the previously decoded image in memory
for quick display in the Viewer.
Startup files Replace images
in list
Does not open a new Viewer window if an image is
opened from another application.
Images in new
window
Opens a new Viewer window to display images
opened from another application.
Resampling
algorithm
Bicubic Resamples images in the Viewer to minimize the
raggedness normally associated with image
expansion.
Bilinear Resamples images in the Viewer to produce
smooth transitions, but may cause excessive
blurring.
Nearest neighbor Does not apply resampling to images displayed in
the Viewer.
Dropped files Replaces images
in list
Replaces the list of images open in the Viewer with
images dropped into the Viewer from another
application.
Add images to
list
Adds any images dropped into the Viewer by
another application to the list of images already
open.
Always on top Keeps the Viewer as the top window in a stack of windows.
Full-screen Opens images in the Viewer in full-screen mode.
Hide mouse cursor
in full-screen
Hides the mouse pointer in full-screen mode.
Instant image
preview
Displays an instant preview in the Viewer that improves in quality as the
image is decoded.
Exit after
delete/move
Automatically returns to the Browser after moving or deleting an image
in the Viewer.