VincentVanGogh

The way Paint.Net 3.5 handles fonts, turns out to be a real disaster - because fonts that are a subset of a given font family are just not seen, not listed, and thus cannot be used. For example: om my Win7 system the Arial font family contains 10 installed fonts in three subsets: (1, main subset) Regular, Bold, Italic, Italic Bold; (2, narrow subset) Narrow, Narrow Bold, Narrow Italic, Narrow Italic Bold; (3, extrabold subset) Black, Black Oblique. In this example, Paint.Net will see and list only the four fonts in 1, the main set. The six alternative Arial varieties in subsets 2 and 3 will not be seen or listed, and therefore those six Arial fonts cannot be used in image editing. In my opinion this is a major bug, a real show-stopper, and I must say that I would expect something like this in a beta version, but I'm really surprised this was not corrected for the final 3.5 versions! I can only hope this will be corrected soon.

Myrddin, thanks for your reply (and sorry for the delay in following-up). I wasn't aware of the PSD plugin and will certainly give it a try. But for right now I guess I'll need to load all my PDN images in Paint.NET and resave each of them to another folder as JPGs. Because I have to handle so many images, I still wish there would be some utility to convert them all in one go... In the meantime I've contacted Pierre Gougelet, the developer of the XnView image viewer (http://www.xnview.com), who is updating his product continuously. He promised that for one of the next updates he will look into the possibility of adding PDN files to the long list of image formats supported by XnView. Should this actually come through, then I will of course report it in this forum.

Hi all, I'm looking for a standalone fullscreen image viewer (for Windows OS, but not the worthless built-in Microsoft viewer) that is capable of quickly slide-showing a folder with over 800 .PDN images in a kind of guided presentation. But I just found out that none of the most popular viewers (Irfanview, Xnview, Faststone...) does support the .PDN file format. If someone can help me find some other viewer that will handle them, I would be very happy: because otherwise I will need to convert the whole lot to .JPG or .PNG - that would be simple for just a few pics, but a tedious job if you need to convert hundreds of them one-by-one. So here is my second question: if there actually is no image viewer that can handle .PDN files, then is there some way (like some kind of macro or script, perhaps) for batch conversion of .PDN files to another imagefile format? If someone has tried this before, I would like very much to hear how you solved the problem. Thanks!