Rickstep

This is a followup to the original post. Paint.Net version 3.36.3158.38068 An image at 1000x8421 (8,421,000 pixels) saves. An image at 2900x2903 (8,418,700 pixels) saves. An image at 1000x8422 (8,422,000 pixels) will not save. An image at 2900x2904 (8,421,600 pixels) will not save. The trip point seems to be somewhere between 8,421,000 pixels (saves) & 8,421,600 pixels (will not save) Notes: Blank images will save. Images with content will save. Images will save whether 8 bit or 32 bit. Hope this helps. Rick

Hi, I have been using Paint.NET as a poor man's Autocad to create drawings for a house renovation. I want to create a drawing using only black & white, set to 8 bit. The drawing is to print to standard 8.5" x 14.0" inch paper (legal paper). The Resolution is set to 300 pixels/inch to match the laser printer. Image size is 8.0" x 13.5". This creates an image 2400 pixels x 4050 pixels. When a new image is created and saved as a blanc image, it won't save. The file created has 0 bytes. The first error is a Preview, file size: (error). When you try to save the file a window opens with the message "There was an unspecified error while saving the file. If I generate a smaller file at 2700 x 1600 pixels it saves properly. If I resize to the final size I get the same errors. If I resize to 90% of the larger size it saves fine. If I incrementally increase the size I can save the file at the larger size. The 2700 x 1600 file saves at 125 KB. At 2403 x 4050 and 299.92 pixels resolution the file size is 629KB. Paint.NET does not crash. Since I lost some work I've spent most of my time trying to determine the point at which the files won't save. the point seems to be around 97 - 99 % of the 2400 x 4050 size. The computer is an hp dc7600 business computer with a 3.2 GHz cpu and it has 4 identical 1GB memory modules. This gives about 3.3GB of useable memory. Hard disk is 500GB with 75% available. No hard drive errors. O/S in XP Pro SP3, all up to date. I've used paint.NET in the past to create drawings by letting 8 pixels = 1 inch.The 4050 x 2400 drawing was created at 4 pixels = 1 inch. The 1600 x 2700 file is 2 pixels per inch. Blowing up the smaller drawing creates a bigger but foggy drawing. Is this a bug or a design limitation. Thanks in advance and for taking the time to read this. Rick.