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technical: On a windoze system a .8bf file is considered being an executable. So malicious things could be hidden in it.
At this moment, there are two different kinds of .8bf files.
The basic one is rendered with a fixed syntax, ending up in a filesize of 57.344 bytes.
(the 'Filter Factory' format)
Then came the next developments with embedded lists of presets and customized GUI.
Which of course takes many more bytes.
In the IrfanView environment this division also is made by using two different commands to get to the .8bf filters.
'K' and 'Ctrl-K'. Associated with Filter Factory and Adobe. Both with their own ini-files in the root of IV.
And both with their own kind of dialog.
But before going into such details, there's one major difference between the two IV functions :
The FFactory dialog ('K') only can read the 'basic' size, while the Adobe dialog ('Ctrl-K') can read both categories.
So the first reaction could be : skip the whole FFactory thing, because the other one takes care of it all.
This would be careless however, because in the case of a 'basic' filter, FFactory has a better GUI, due to IrfanView.
The dialog if a basic plugin is opened with Ctrl-K :
While the K dialog is a bit more sophisticated :
Also because it's possible to click on the slider knob and set the value precisely with the L/R arrows of the KB.
More about the dialogs of both IV and the filters themselves still to come. Plus how to edit custom plugins.
technical: On a windoze system a .8bf file is considered being an executable. So malicious things could be hidden in it.
At this moment, there are two different kinds of .8bf files.
The basic one is rendered with a fixed syntax, ending up in a filesize of 57.344 bytes.
(the 'Filter Factory' format)
Then came the next developments with embedded lists of presets and customized GUI.
Which of course takes many more bytes.
In the IrfanView environment this division also is made by using two different commands to get to the .8bf filters.
'K' and 'Ctrl-K'. Associated with Filter Factory and Adobe. Both with their own ini-files in the root of IV.
And both with their own kind of dialog.
But before going into such details, there's one major difference between the two IV functions :
The FFactory dialog ('K') only can read the 'basic' size, while the Adobe dialog ('Ctrl-K') can read both categories.
So the first reaction could be : skip the whole FFactory thing, because the other one takes care of it all.
This would be careless however, because in the case of a 'basic' filter, FFactory has a better GUI, due to IrfanView.
The dialog if a basic plugin is opened with Ctrl-K :
While the K dialog is a bit more sophisticated :
Also because it's possible to click on the slider knob and set the value precisely with the L/R arrows of the KB.
More about the dialogs of both IV and the filters themselves still to come. Plus how to edit custom plugins.
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