How do we crafters that use .svg's get someone to write a program that will allow us to view our .svg's as thumbnails just like a .jpg or a .png, in Windows 7 and beyond? Lol, where do programmers hang out? Free would be nice (like Inkscape), but I think most of us would be willing to pay in the ballpark of $10.

Renesis worked with previous versions of Windows, but won't with Windows 7. Ifanview allows you to view .svg's, but it requires opening it as a program, which is an unwelcome step.

Thanks for any input!

Welcome to InkscapeForum!

Well, it was all Renisis player, until it's creator disappeared without notice about a year and a half ago. Our efforts to locate and contact have been unsuccessful.

The marginally good news is that Microsoft has begun to support SVG, with IE9 which reportedly can display some SVG images. I would expect future Windows os to offer viewers which display SVG, and also thumbnails in WinExplorer. But I really have no idea about that. Because of course with Win7, the program that in XP was called 'Windows Picture and Fax Viewer', that's now called.....I forget, because I don't use it any more, because MS thought it would be a good idea not to continue to display animated GIFs in that viewer Now in fact I also have to use Irfanview to display animated GIFs. (Win7 will display them in a browser window, which is, well, I won't get on my soapbox, lol)

Anyway, there's a partial solution using InkView. When you double-click on an SVG, and you get the dialog asking you to select a program with which to open it, look just below the list of programs for the Browse button. Look in the Inkscape directory for Inkview.exe. Select it and click OK. Then I don't remember if there's an Apply button on the dialog, but if so, click it and OK. So now when you double-click an SVG, the image opens using Inkview.

That's about all I know about this. I do happen to have the last version of Renesis player that was released, and it does work in Win7 for me. But not very well. If I need to look at SVG thumbnails, I just use Inkscape as a file manager.

I wish someone would take up development of the Renesis program, but it was copyright protected. If anyone knows what has become of the original Renesis developer, no one is saying. But I hope MS has woken up and is smelling the coffee, as they say. IE9 is a good sign, but I don't keep up with any program's development, except for what I can understand about Inkscape. It seems to me that Inkview could be developed in a similar way, but I don't really know?

All best

Actually, I was tempted to write my own. I did some research and found some nice Free Pascal libraries to use librsvg to render SVG images, it didn't look hard to do a thumb handler for Windows with it. In theory, I know all that must be known to at least have some sort of thumbnail shown Explorer... What I don't have is the time and will power... But some money would raise my "will bar"... Nah, just kidding. I really don't have the time to do it. But I really wish I had.