tanstaafl.

I don't think this is a bug in Paint.Net, but rather something that Microsoft did in a recent update to Windows 10. Everything works until it doesn't. The cursor pauses, then stops and it is too late to do anything but a full power-off reset. Or maybe it's just something wrong with my computer. Has anybody else experienced this problem?

Oh, I have spent many hours with pretty tech-savvy people trying to get MSPaint to work again, to no avail. The strange thing is, it will work under the proper circumstances. If I open Paint.Net and save a file, then MSPaint will work -- one time. Then it will no longer open until I repeat the process with Paint.Net. Very strange. In any case, the editing advantages of Paint.Net far overwhelm any supposed superiority of MSPaint's print options. tanstaafl.

Uhhh... been there, done that! But I thank you for the suggestion. Rick Brewster has said in the "Popular Feature Requests" thread Better printing user interface -- Planned for a pre-4.0 update. Will this just be a change to the UI, or will there be added functionality? I installed the "PrinterPlus" plug-in, and while it mimics the MS Paint print interface to some degree, it does not add any of the MS Paint print options. tanstaafl.

>(If it does, you owe me a free lunch) If you will come and visit me here in Ajijic, Mexico*, I will treat you to a filet mignon dinner at Ajijic Tango's, best restaurant in town. In an attempt to disprove your silly theory about expanding the canvas size around a small image, I finally gained an understanding of the difference between image size and canvas size, and now it all makes sense, particularly in how it relates to printing. Turns out your silly theory was right. I was always used to a system where the print dialogue controlled how the image would print, that is, you did your sizing and page fitting when it was time to actually print. With PDN, on the other hand, you do all that in the editing phase: you set the size of your image, you set the size of your canvas (NOT the same thing!) and the print routine scales the canvas to fill every square inch of paper. If this seems bone-headedly obvious, just remember my mantra: "If it's different from what I'm used to, it can't be any good." You inspired me to do the experimenting and testing I needed to do in order to understand the relationship between image size, canvas size, and print size. For that I thank you! I still feel that the print options are the weakest link in a great free program, but now that I understand things a bit better, it's not as bad as I thought. Doug Burnside aka: tanstaafl. *See attached photo, taken from my deck.

I have found the printing options in PDN to be... ummm, lacking to be polite about it. Maybe frustrating is a better word. In all probability, PDN will print just the way I want it to, and I'm just not smart enough to figure out how to do it. Right now, all I want is to be able to print at something less than full-page. For example, I create a simple drawing, size it in PDN to, say, 2 inches by 2.5 inches. It will print out at 8 inches by 10 inches, with no other choices, at least not that I was smart enough to find. This is probably the rankest heresy to say this on the Paint.Net forum, but I find the Microsoft Paint print options to be far more useful, with the ability to scale the drawing by percentage, fit to a single page or fit to multiple pages, make my own choice about landscape vs portrait mode, etc. Unfortunately, MS Paint won't run on my computer anymore, probably a corrupted DLL file or something that will require a nuke and repave operation to fix. [This is one of the better things to happen to me, because without it I wouldn't have found and installed Paint.Net! ] Rick Brewster has said in the "Popular Feature Requests" thread Better printing user interface -- Planned for a pre-4.0 update. Will this just be a change to the UI, or will there be added functionality? I installed the "PrinterPlus" plug-in, and while it mimics the MS Paint print interface to some degree, it does not add any of the MS Paint print options. What will the "Better printing user interface" actually do, and is there any projected time frame? tanstaafl.

It's a nice plugin, but it does not do the one thing I wanted -- that is, to spread a single image across multiple pages the way MS Paint can do. And, as stated just above, running MS Paint, even just as a printing utility, is presently somewhat problematical on my computer. :? tanstaafl.

It's a nice plugin, but it does not do the one thing I wanted -- that is, to spread a single image across multiple pages the way MS Paint can do. And, as stated just above, running MS Paint, even just as a printing utility, is presently somewhat problematical on my computer. :? tanstaafl.

I would do that, but as stated in my original post, MS Paint will no longer run on my computer. A considerable amount of time and effort has been spent trying to fix this without success. On the diminishingly small chance that someone might be interested in this somewhat arcane problem, here's what happens. If I run Paint.net or some other graphics program and save a file, then MS Paint will load and run---ONE TIME. After that, it will not run again until I run another graphics program and save a file (any file, not necessarily one I want to print). Sigh... tanstaafl.

I would do that, but as stated in my original post, MS Paint will no longer run on my computer. A considerable amount of time and effort has been spent trying to fix this without success. On the diminishingly small chance that someone might be interested in this somewhat arcane problem, here's what happens. If I run Paint.net or some other graphics program and save a file, then MS Paint will load and run---ONE TIME. After that, it will not run again until I run another graphics program and save a file (any file, not necessarily one I want to print). Sigh... tanstaafl.

I only have four or five hours experience with Paint.net, so I apologize in advance if these questions have already been asked and answered. 1) MS Paint offers the option of printing my image across multiple pages, automatically scaling the image to match the number of pages horizontally and vertically that I specify. Is this an option in Paint.net that I am just not smart enough to figure out? On a related topic... can I change the default setting of the "Fit picture to frame" check box to Off? I prefer to do my cropping in the image, not by printer aspect ratio! 2) MS Paint offers a check box titled "Draw opaque" which can be unchecked, so that when I cut and paste (or in Paint.net, select and move) a portion of the image, or when I import an image via the Windows clipboard, the new image allows the underlying image to show through. An example of how I use this is in making a montage of Google maps where Print Screen images that overlap on the edges can be seamlessly merged together. I am far from an experienced graphics user. MS Paint has been my only graphics program for the last 10 years or so, but something has corrupted my system so that MS Paint won't run any more (that's a story for another thread), and after trying Paint.net, I wouldn't switch back in any case. Thank you for any assistance you can provide Doug Burnside aka: tanstaafl.

I only have four or five hours experience with Paint.net, so I apologize in advance if these questions have already been asked and answered. 1) MS Paint offers the option of printing my image across multiple pages, automatically scaling the image to match the number of pages horizontally and vertically that I specify. Is this an option in Paint.net that I am just not smart enough to figure out? On a related topic... can I change the default setting of the "Fit picture to frame" check box to Off? I prefer to do my cropping in the image, not by printer aspect ratio! 2) MS Paint offers a check box titled "Draw opaque" which can be unchecked, so that when I cut and paste (or in Paint.net, select and move) a portion of the image, or when I import an image via the Windows clipboard, the new image allows the underlying image to show through. An example of how I use this is in making a montage of Google maps where Print Screen images that overlap on the edges can be seamlessly merged together. I am far from an experienced graphics user. MS Paint has been my only graphics program for the last 10 years or so, but something has corrupted my system so that MS Paint won't run any more (that's a story for another thread), and after trying Paint.net, I wouldn't switch back in any case. Thank you for any assistance you can provide Doug Burnside aka: tanstaafl.