AndyJ

That's great hehe and I would! Except out clients use tiffs ... and so we have to handle tiffs This isn't a blocking issue for me and I dont need a work around as we have plenty of other sources we can get tiffs from, I just thought that this seemed like a bug to me and I'd report it.

Nope I'm selecting it in the box I've done it with a few different screenshots to ensure it's nothing I'm doing and none fo them work. And the OCR stuff supports PNG's so if I was doing that it still shouldn't error

I take a screenshot, paste it into Paint.Net and save it as a tiff. I then try to open it for OCR in Abbyy Finereader and get an "Unsupported Format" error. If I take a tiff that has been created by MODI (Microsoft Office Document Imaging) or a few of the scanner applications we have around then it works fine. It's possible of course that the problem is at Abbyy's end but currently your app is the only one I have found that doesn't produce a file that I can use. Unfortunatly I don't get any more information about why it's unsupported and so can't provide any pointers as to where the issue is.

Thought I'd check back and see if there had been any replys to the post and wow! It got a better response than I thought it would Having it as part of the current MDI tabs was the initial thought as the images are already there, it would work just as well as a seperate floating window of course. This adds extra clutter, but as you know these windows are optional and so can just be opened if the user finds it useful. The handle idea is quite nice ... the way I imagained it was as having the equivilent of a title bar (please forgive my awful ascii art effort ): ------- | | ------- | | | | | | ------- EDIT: the message board very kindly cleans up my post and removes the spacing from this box I'll try the code tags and see if that preserves the formatting EDIT2: now theres too much space lol most users are familiar with the concept of title bars and would probably thik they could be used for moving/reordering the tabs. As an additional visual cue to seperate the funcationality, when the mouse goes over the image itself a second "view" rectange appears (the first being the current view) which will represent where the main view will switch to when the user clicks. I hope I explained my thoughts in a relatively clear manor.

I love the tab-based multi-document user interface up at the top. As I was scrolling round and zooming on a few images today I thought it'd be handy if you could place a rectangle on the currently selected image to reprisent the section that is currently shown on the screen. An enhancement on top of that would then be to be able to move the rectangle around. If the MDI tabs isn't the best place for this another option would be to have a new window that contains an overview with controls specificly to do with the current viewable area.