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Can confirm, fixed thanx a mil. Also as promised: If people need programs like FastStone to work, just create a batch file in my example I'll call it paintdotnet.bat with the following: @echo off start paintdotnet:%* Now you can simply point to that bat file as your executable in FastStone. The %* is a catch all and works with single or multiple files, both with or without spaces in the names.

You never use %1 %2 %3 ..... If you want to use all as one variable If you wanna do a catch all as one you should use %* But as mentioned, my problem is not passing it to paintdotnet, its that paintdotnet is not accepting spaces in command line. Already written a proper batch file that works with other applications, will post a full howto here once the command line section for paintdotnet works.

Thanx did not know about the "start" part. Batch option now works till image have spaces in the name. Even when using command line gives an error. Copied a jpg file and renamed it with a space in the name then ran: start paintdotnet:"D:\Utils\test name.jpg" Paint.net starts but prompts image type not recognized See Screenshot of error: https://imgur.com/a/R57CRsa

I need this as Faststone need a bat or exe file. Current method only works when you click Start -> Run and not as a command line option If I was able to use the command from a command line I could then create a getpain.bat file that contains: paintdotnet %1 I could then call the .bat file with Faststone and the Path_to_image.jpg would be passed on as %1 Maybe this could be of more help on how to call Paint.net with params from another program like say Faststone For now I guess I will have to go back to free version.

Missed that thread thanx will continue in there.

I don't know if this is possible as my Google-fu is letting me down. Long time user of Paint.net but decided to "donate" to the project via Windows Store only to find that I can not "call" paint.net via FastStone or other Win32 applications for that matter. Only way I found how this can be done is to create a bat file that use the command line alias of a UWP application example found here Here is the question does such an option exist or is there another way of doing this that I do not know about?