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First of, great program. I found it through another artist that I follow, looked interesting so I gave it a try and I really like it (it's been constantly running for several days)
I felt inclined to try and help signal boost it, dunno how much more traffic it'd give though. :P
http://theinkbot.tumblr.com/post/114310868577/pureref
Anyway, after using the software for a while I had a suggestion or two that I wanted to bring up.
The way the program automatically (or when you ask it to) arranges the pictures is pretty great. I find it really nice to just drag a slew of images and/or folders of images into Pureref and have it arrange them on the spot. However, I find there's place for improvement on this front.
First and foremost I think an option to arrange the images according to filename and path would be a great addition. Sometimes you have a handful of images in a sequence, like animations or tutorials, that you want to keep in that order. Currently Pureref doesn't seem to care about that and I've had pages of the same tutorial be scattered throughout the canvas when loaded with other images.
Another option that would be nice to see is an option to have Pureref scale all of the imported/selected images to be of similar sizes when arranging the images.
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 2016-02-27 16:09 by PureRef.
Glad to hear you like it, and thanks for sharing!
The current arrangement method is done by using an algorithm for bin packing which only cares about trying to pack all images in the smallest space possible. To arrange them by file name will probably be a bit problematic with this approach but if they are resized first as you say it should probably be possible. We will look into adding more packing oprions for future versions.
Thank you for the suggestion!
We have added some more arrange methods in the newest version 1.7.0. Arrange by name and by addition. They will not pack the images as good as the optimal arrange but will retain their order.