Slide sorter software

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n 10/20/02 07:41, Joel Hammer wrote:

> I am spending too much time on a "trivial" problem, so its time to 
> look for
> some ideas.
>
> Here is what I want to do:
> Given a set of TIF slides (photomicrographs, up to 10 megs each) in a
> directory. They will be numbered in sequence, 01_Blah 02_MoreBlah, etc.
> I want to be able to view thumbnails of them on the
> monitor. (Easy part)
> Hard part:
> I want to be able to quickly and easily rearrange and delete them,
> like you would do on a manual slide sorter, prior to burning them to a
> CD. This will involve changing the numerical prefix on the slides at some
> point.
>
> I have been fooling with CGI scripts using the browser as the GUI,
> but this seems like an awkward solution, at least in my hands.  And,
> I don't see any way I could use a drag and drop approach to moving the
> slides around, which would be the ideal method.
>
> Any ideas appreciated. I'd be willing to learn another programming
> language, spend some money for software,  or whatever.

xv can do this, although not perfectly.

>
>
>
> However, I am not willing to spend hours searching sourceforge for some
> buggy program that won't compile or run on my computer, and which,
> after hours of experimentation, won't do what I want. I have already
> spent about 30 minutes there. The first program wouldn't decompress
> (wrong version of gunzip, I am guessing) and the second won't compile
> (wrong version of QT). This is typical of any graphics software I try
> to download.  I don't want to rebuild my system to solve one problem!
> I hate to upgrade, since free upgrades, even free ones, consume large
> amounts of my time, which is not free.

Might help if you told us which ones you've already tried.

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