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    Stop messing with system restore points.

    in Paint.NET Discussion and Questions

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    Looks like this guy is very interested in reasonable discussion.

    He generally is, unless the situation is that:

    1) It's something generally stupid, like this thread is, and

    2) if the author thread is either stubborn or extremely rude (also like you are)

    Checked now, my 1TB system drive contains only two restore points and one of them created today with paint.net installation. Oldest available restore point created two days ago. What if I'll find that some of windows update, installed for example, a week ago, have broken, for example, printing? I won't be able to restore system because one dumb developer likes to create restore points on every opportunity. Stop this. Paint.net doesn't deserves this honor, at least until it'll start to install a couple of drivers.

    Fun fact: You can roll back to any system restore point, ever created on your computer. So, no, Paint.NET will not stop you from doing a system restore, even if it is the most recent.

    Secondly, installing a program will always change the registry, and, say for example, it messed up the registry, and you couldn't use system restore? System restore is used as a way to stop any chance of "permanent" damage to a system due to one reason or another, and I'm sure it'd be worse if there were people genuinely complaining about a program messing up their computer rather than just one self-abosrbed person whining.

    So, you guys can kiss his a** as long as you want, but this won't make stupid decision any smarter.

    Seeing as you know so much about programming and the do's and do not's, why don't you make your own image program yourself?

    I would say more, but honestly, due to the huge amount of bile coming out from people thinking they know what is best for a program and for what Paint.NET can do recently, I'm not honestly suprised by the way this "moron", as you say, has acted.

    Cannot install newest versions with Run As administrator

    in Troubleshooting & Bug Reports

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    Starting with 3.5.0 i'm not able to install newest Paint.NET version (on top of the older one) in limited user environment without logging in as administrator anymore. Usually i was able to launch installer with Run As administrator. Now installer launches and then nothing happens, no errors, no windows. As i always work with limited user it creates inconvenience to have to log off, login as admin, install and then login back as a user. Windows XP SP3.

    I've tried to capture installer process with Process Monitor (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysi ... 96645.aspx). It seems that process stops at GRE initialization and then thread and process just exit. I would attach the log here, but it is too big (950 KB zip).

    Just paste the log into a set of 

     tags.

    No graphics tablet support

    in Troubleshooting & Bug Reports

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    Especially if some of your releases established the fact that Paint.NET supports graphics tablets. Why aren't you kind enough to hold the latest tablet supporting version, point out known bugs and write right above the download link that this version is no longer supported for trouble shooting on the forums.

    Because supporting an older version of a program for a minority of program users is ridiculous, as 1) it means Rick has to deal with issues with two versions, and 2) it also causes a large amount of problems with plugins - plugin developers are going to be even less likely to support older versions of Paint.NET, and I doubt you'd use Paint.NET vanilla flavoured.

    Who cares? You have wasted my time.

    And that you haven't wasted Rick's time by acting like a 5-year old, and acting out against the rules purely on your own personal basis of how this issue should be managed.

    Tamil Unicode Render Problem

    in Troubleshooting & Bug Reports

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    I'll probably try to get screenshots later, if needed though i think i can describe the issue with sufficient clarity to replicate in words. My dad used to use an older version (3.36 i think) of paint.net and pasted from a site that uses unicode to render tamil - This is an example of a site he uses, and should render correctly on current versions of firefox -I'm using 3.5.5

    Copying and pasting a passage from there, renders properly in paint.net 3.36, Word 2007 and firefox. It doesn't in notepad, the latest version of paint.net (3.5 something i think) and paint.I'd suggest using arial unicode to test, since its a common font that seems to work correctly with the script, in cases where it works. I'm supposing there's a change between the two versions, and thats what's causing the issue. While its a single, not too common language that i don't think the developers speak, Its still a rather curious bug, and i figured i'd bring it to your attention

    EDIT: The system is running windows XP SP3 as well. I guess i should have mentioned that

    While I don't like the idea of speaking for Rick on this, I'm guessing that the cause of this is the change of the text renderer from GDI+ in v3.36 to GDI in v3.5 (for XP).

    No fonts on drop-down menu.

    in Troubleshooting & Bug Reports

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    I Got No Idea :roll: , Works Fine For Me, What Are Your Computers Specs? (Stickers On Your Computer Tell You)

    To be honest, the stickers pretty much only tell you the operating system, the type of processor and who produced the motherboard :/

    Besides, I kinda doubt how the system specs could effect the font's not loading. (Although I'm not entirely sure)

    Try upgrading to v3.5.1 and see if that sorts the problem out?

    64 Bit Version?

    in Paint.NET Discussion and Questions

    Posted

    It is part of the same download from the Download page; the EXE will handle the necessary installments for whether you are on 64-bit or 86-bit system.

    86-bit system :shock: I want one!

    Well, it's more x64 and x86, yet the x68 is called 32-bit.

    There's also the fact a 86-bit system can't work in that computer's work, ultimately, in powers of 2.

    Paint.NET as a screenshot tool?

    in Paint.NET Discussion and Questions

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    EDIT: A worry I might consider: if the past is any indication, Windows XP support may be removed from Paint.NET when Windows 7 is released. Your office should really consider upgrading to 7, rather than XP. You'll have a much longer support cycle and a better program, as well as being able to use Paint.NET even longer!

    But isn't Paint.NET support more dependant on .NET support over OS support?

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