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FastRawViewer – user manual

The existence of representation is displayed in the status (lower) bar of the program, between the file

dimensions in pixels and the EXIF data:

 R I – denotes the existence of RAW and Internal JPEG.

 R I E – RAW, Internal JPEG, External JPEG.

 J – only JPEG, without a RAW-file.

A capital letter indicates that the representation is available for viewing. Lowercase means that it

exists, but is unavailable for viewing for one of the following reasons:

o i – the internal JPEG is not shown. This is a default setting for when there is an internal JPEG

file and the RAW+JPEG mode is on (can be changed in settings: Preferences – RAW+JPEG –

Do not show internal JPEG if external JPEG is present).

o r – RAW representation is not shown. This happens for unsupported RAW formats (Sigma

Foveon) or for too large RAW files (limits can be changed in Preferences – Performance –

RAW file size limit).

o File representation is damaged (errors while decoding of JPEG or RAW data).

To switch between representation use Menu – View – Switch RAW/intJPEG/extJPEG or press the J

key on the keyboard. The representation that is currently displayed is denoted with letter indicator

going white.

Tuning the behavior of the program in regards to the display of embedded/external JPEG files is done

through Preferences – RAW+JPEG.

 Handle RAW+JPEG together – turns on the pairing of the RAW file and JPEG of the same

name. If you turn off this setting, the pairing won’t happen – the files will be shown

separately and treated as separate.

o Do not show internal JPEG if external JPEG is present – disables decoding and

displaying of an embedded JPEG when there is an external one.

o Do not show external JPEGs – disables the decoding and displaying of external JPEGs

(still, both RAW and JPEG files will be relocated with a move operation).

 Ignore internal JPEGs – disables any processing of embedded JPEGs in all Handle RAW+JPEG

modes.

 Default image to Display (same as Previous/RAW/internal JPEG/external JPEG) – controls

what representation will be used for display when opening the next file.