Hicksi

- Dragging wasn't the "purpose", rather it was a task that indicated the issue I was wanting to describe. - The "rendering" seemed to indicate to me that there was a lot of rubbish in the file, and that it (like MS-Word) adds changes to the end of the file and somehow marks earlier pixels as being removed. And my testing that I just described indicates that ~75% of this overlaid picture could be nulled out rubbish. My enquiry was to understand if there was a function to purge that nulled segments (which presumably would resequence the pixels so the rendering seemed logical).

OK. I may be tilting at windmills with this question as asked. So I tried generating a 10000x10000 and layering a 2000x2000 multiple times. Then merged them all down. Saving this (as png) created a 31,586 KB file. Closed Paint and re-opened. When I try dragging, etc, it seems to render the components of each block, somewhat in the order they were created. Closed Paint and re-opened. Without change, I saved as jpg. That created a 3,296 KB file. Nothing unexpected here. Closed Paint and opened the jpg file. Without change, I saved as png again. That created a 7,277 KB file. And here is the surprise. That's 25% of the original. SO, what has been "compressed" or "lost" in the transition? The rendering now seems to be related to blocks around my cursor, quite different to the original experience. So, it may be that I asked the wrong question. There is a significant difference between the png file created by layering and merging (particularly as I ensured that I had layers overlapping), and that created by converting to jpg and back. I am wondering what that difference and whether there is a method to "resequence" or "discard rubbish" without performing the double conversion.

I have a large PNG file 10000 x 14000, which has been created by overlaying individual screen captures as New Layers, and then Merging them down. Each new block has not been created in sequence (ie, a road east has been tracked, then a road south, then fill as necessary to create the complete area of the PNG. I have noticed that if I DRAG the whole, that it renders in the order that I applied the segment (layer). I have noticed similar characteristics with other functions, but the DRAG issue is the easiest to explain. This seems to indicate that the data in the file is in the same sequence as when it was created. And maybe even still contains pieces of the overlaid segments. Is there a way to force the complete re-sequence of the bits in the file which would avoid the overheads of rendering (or even create a smaller file)?

FAIL... "Will any of their messages will be left ..." Too much will

Don't sweat. I found it... https://www.getpaint.net/roadmap.html

Has anyone noticed the grammatical error on the registration window? It's much more obvious when written across the page. {it's one of those 'count the "f" characters' puzzles} A spammer is posting on the message board. Will any of their messages will be left after they are banned? (This is a one word answer.)

I just updated to 5.0.10. Is there a list of what features (improvements/bug-fixes) have been added?