I know that having preview turned on slows down the render
significantly.  However, opening the resulting image in some other
program is inconvenient enough to, for most of the stuff I do,
completely offset the advantage in render time.  Is there some way I can
tell povray to pull up the preview window when I'm done rendering, so I
don't take the hit on render time, but also don't have to go to some
other program to see what I've done?

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In article <3EBD20F4.DC2A9A92@mail.rit.edu>,
 John Chatham <Wyv### [at] mailritedu> wrote:

> I know that having preview turned on slows down the render
> significantly.  However, opening the resulting image in some other
> program is inconvenient enough to, for most of the stuff I do,
> completely offset the advantage in render time.  Is there some way I can
> tell povray to pull up the preview window when I'm done rendering, so I
> don't take the hit on render time, but also don't have to go to some
> other program to see what I've done?

What system and POV version are you using? The official version has an 
option for executing a script after rendering ends, you may be able to 
use this to automatically open the file.

What I do under Mac OS X is run POV from the command line. I've worked 
up a simple shell script so I can change render options in a text 
editor, I just have to call the script with the base file name. I use 
jEdit to edit the scene files and render script, I could probably use it 
to call the script itself. (Actually, my script renders the scene on 
another computer, a PC running Linux, and then transfers it back to my 
Mac for display using Preview.app, but it could just as easily render it 
locally.)

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