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September 28, 2006
SWF Live Preview 1.0 - Thumbnails of SWFs for Free
Here is a nifty little tool that let's you preview your SWF files. It was quick to install and the UI looks nice. I first heard about this on Lee Brimelow's blog. You can pick a folder to 'scan' for SWFs and depending on your computer and the number of files it does it thing. For me it was actually pretty fast. The best thing about it is that it's free!
SWF Live Preview free, Preview Flash files in Explorer, SWF Thumbnail View
SWF Live Preview 1.0
SWF Live Preview is aimed to help you preview Macromedia Flash files using standard built-in Windows Explorer. Excellent design, easy-to-use interface, powerful features and unique capabilities make SWF Live Preview indispensable application. And it is free of charge! You won't find anything similar!
Once SWF Live Preview is installed you can scan directories and subdirectories for Flash files, create and preview thumbnails for SWF as well as Projector EXE files, fetch information such as Flash version, number of frames, shapes, find out if file is compressed or not etc. With SWF Live Preview you can choose which frame to create thumbnail from, as well as a desired size of preview image. If you remove Flash files from your computer �€“ simply clear cache to save some storage space.
Our product will scan SWF and EXE (Projector EXE) extensions files. Moreover, if you use other our products such as Flash Optimizer or Flash Decompiler you can optimize or decompile Macromedia Flash files correspondingly directly from Properties tab.
SWF Live Preview is a freeware, so go ahead, download it and enjoy expressive thumbnail view for your Flash movies from now on!
Posted by kwillis at September 28, 2006 11:44 PM
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i don't understand. You can view the swf files with the latest version of the Adobe flash . Anyway if you want to modify a Fla you got to have that software instaled. So what is the point of the SWF live preview?
Posted by: Filmari Botez ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.stanford.edu/~kwillis/blog/nav-commenters.gif)
at March 15, 2009 01:51 PM
Filmari,
Sure, you can view the swf files in your web browser or Flash itself, but what if you are a designer who has lots of swf versions in one explorer folder? How can you tell what is what by the thumbnail? Well unless you have SWF Live Preview then they'll all have the same flash icon.
Check out this for a preview of the preview: http://theflashblog.com/preview.jpg
~Kingsley
Posted by: Kingsley at March 17, 2009 10:53 AM
Ok. You are right. Even if usualy not too many times we are working with SWF files that we don't have the .fla files as well. Otherwise we are not going to be able to modify them.
Anyway... do you have any ideea about where can i get a nef preview for my shouts. I've got a Nikon D80 and i am not able to see the nef's thumbmail.
Thankyou
Posted by: Filmari Botez at March 21, 2009 11:48 AM
I don't find myself really needing a thumbnail for SWFs but for PSDs I do. For previewing PSD (photoshop files) try:
http://www.dlldump.com/download-dll-files.php/dllfiles/P/psicon.dll/download.html
Note! will only work with Adobe CS2 .psd files
For previewing RAW images in windows you might try:
Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer for Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D48E808E-B10D-4CE4-A141-5866FD4A3286&displaylang=en
I haven't tried it but it seems like it should work since it's published by Microsoft.
Posted by: Kingsley at March 30, 2009 07:20 PM
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