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Thank you for the housekeeping EER. These are two DLLs for two effects in one zip file. Still, I think this topic belongs in the general Plugins forum rather than in the Plugin Packs sub-forum.

Rather: "Allows paint.net to open or and save images as PDF documents"

I tried to attach it to a PM but I could not figure out how to. So, here it is. MeasureSelection.Effect v1.5.zip

I suggested this a few years ago. Some forum members agreed it would be a good idea. I still hope

Here's an easy way around until something can be done to fix the plugin. It actually works quite with images I tested up to the size of an A4 page. Pictures can then be easily copied from Word into PDN for editing if necessary.

Congratulations to the winners and well done everyone who entered

For the silhouette in my "night-time" entry I used this photo: http://www.wallpapermade.com/wallpaper/1391/white-wolf-face/ I also used a texture I made years ago following yellowman's Stone Texture tutorial.

Rick, that will be very useful. Chris, You have almost nailed it. Here's a slightly different procedure that will give you much smoother edges: 1. Like you do now, fill the selection with black on a new layer and copy the layer to the clipboard. 2. Use the Alpha Mask plugin on a new image. Make sure the "Paste from clipboard" option is selected.

So far I've avoided taking part in competitions mainly for two reasons. One is I'm not good with deadlines. The other is that I don't like to "chat" through forums (in general, not this one in particular). I mean I usually can't be bothered to say "thank you" and "you're welcome" and I realise that can be seen as rude, especially when people compliment your work or (even worse) when they vote for you. (I even imposed a "no chit-chat" rule on a forum I used to moderate). When the "Favourite Place" SOTW competition was announced, this image was fixed in my head: When I finally got around to draw it, the competition was over. TBH, I don't think I'd have entered even if I had finished it in time. Now, when the current competition was announced, I thought of the image I entered. I was given a second chance to enter the (more or less) same image. I consider this as a one-off entry, but I couldn't pass.

Bob, I understand how links to other posts work. My reply was not based on what can be read in the quote, rather on the the whole post and description for the plugin. What I meant to write is that the plugin author did not intend the published plugin to save in SVG and never claimed that it did. Hence the need for Paint.NET to fallback to "Save As" when one clicks on "Save" so that a different format can be chosen.

Yes it does. A refinement indeed!

No, it does not. What it "suggests", is what it does, i.e. "Imports SVG files (and the compressed variant SVGZ) and renders them to Paint.NET bitmap layers".

MadJik and Andrew offer good advice Marilynx and that's how I also save multiple PNGs from one PDN. However, if you're worried you may overwrite an existing PDN or JPG, here's another way which does not require you to close the PDN file every time: 1. Select All (Ctrl+A) your original PDN file. 2. Turn on and off the appropriate layers to get the image you want 3. Copy Merged (Ctrl+Shift+C) 4. Paste into New Image (Ctrl+Alt+V) 5. Save (Ctrl+S) the new image as a JPG with an appropriate name 6. Close (Ctrl+W) the JPG file 7. Start again at 2 for the next JPG image

Even if you say so yourself Welcome back MadJik and thank you.

Can also confirm full support for Greek:

Quite right. And that's the way.. aha, aha.. I like it and I hope it doesn't change. I remember in v.3 the Rotate/Zoom dialogue box had a "Reset All" button. That was also useful.

Thank you. Also useful for turning any font into a grunge font.

So they now don't show up in the plugin window. I think it's better to be able to see the characters that cannot be rendered. At worst, we just get a rectangle instead of a symbol. Like you changed it, I will not be sure if a symbol I want to use is simply unavailable or if it's a case that I can just not find it. I appreciate the extra characters, thank you. Also true for the latest Firefox, IE and Edge.

"Cyanotype" in KrisVDM's Plugin Pack was made for this effect.

The Rubber Stamp plugin works just fine, thank you toe head. The link to the tutorial does not.

If the canvas is expanded, the added canvas area on the BACKGROUND layer is painted with the secondary colour. However, I've noticed two exceptions: 1. If the original background layer is deleted, the expanded canvas area of the bottom layer is filled with transparency. This is true even if the background layer is duplicated, the original deleted and the copy layer is still named as "background". 2. If a clipboard image is pasted into a new image (Ctrl+Alt+V), the bottom layer in the new image is named "Layer 1" and Paint.NET treats the new image as if it has not a background layer. So, in this case too, he expanded canvas area is filled with transparency with one having to delete any layer. To save myself from worries of this nature, I always duplicate the bottom layer if I want to expand the canvas and then I just delete it.

You can dot it yourself with a custom palette like I did in the example below: As you can see, I used four colour "places" for each of the colours in my palette, so I made a larger "target", much like the example by BoltBait.