Thanks to everyone who reported the bugs (and sent in all the suggestions that still aren’t implemented, that will take ’some’ more time :-)

This XnView release is still a beta, so might be a little unstable. Its working great for me but you might want to wait till its final release before dipping in.

(Screenshot of XnView v1.95 Beta 1, thats a 7.9 MB Nikon D80 nef along with its 6.3 MB rwz copy. 19% compression, totally lossless.)

To see support for Rawzor’s RWZ files in more of your software, just send a message (or maybe lots of them ;-) to author/support/forum of your favorite software.

There is no reason for them to wait other than knowing that their users want it, so tell them that you do.

ExifTool's supported formats list, from its website

What this means is that now we can use ExifTool to work with the meta data in our raw images even if they are Rawzored, no need to decompress them first.

Thanks Phil.

Whats New:

• A GUI and some minor speed improvements.
• The core is still more or less the same. If you were using the previous command-line builds, this version maintains full compatibility with files created with them.
• I have added the results graph on the home page. You can now get a quick glance at what to expect for your images.
• There is also a supported cameras list now. Its not complete yet, Rawzor supports more cameras than whats on the list but it will atleast give you some idea. I need help from you to confirm support for other cameras and the list will expand accordingly (keep sending in those sample images, loads of them).

Whats missing:

• Multicore support, it will use only one cpu even on your dual core machine :-(
• The ‘time remaining’ estimate in progress bar isn’t as accurate as it should be :-(
• Its windows only :-(
• I know all this is painful , but its a beta after all.

Other than this everything should be rock solid, its already been in a private beta since a while. So grab a copy and give it a shot, I will wait right here for your comments.

Like last time, everything is built in Visual Studio 2008 (9.0) but there shouldn’t be any issues even if you are using a different build chain (atleast we can hope). Anyway, if this creates any problems for you and you can’t upgrade yet, I can add binaries from some older version of msvc. Let me know.

I am hoping this blog will be a great way to share with you everything happening with Rawzor - on the stage or behind the scenes, and listen to what you have to say.

To know more about me, you can check my homepage but there isn’t much to know besides that I love programming and data compression technologies.

So, hit me with any questions or suggestions on how you would like to shape Rawzor’s future. Leave a comment here or drop me a mail.

Lets get this ball rolling… :-)