The Boz Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Hello!I have a problem. There is a picture that I'm working on at home, saved with Paint.NET 4.0.9, and I can't open it at work, where I am limited to a portable 3.36 (.NET 4.0 is installed, but any portable Paint.NET 4.x.x doesn't work). When I try to open the picture, I get an unspecified error. Any way to save or alter the file so I can work on it at work, too? Or a reliable portable 4.0.x? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dipstick Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Save the image as a PNG, BMP, TIFF, or PSD (if you have the adobe plugin). You can save as jpg, but you will loose some quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Boz Posted January 24, 2016 Author Share Posted January 24, 2016 Sorry, I forgot to specify. I need to keep the layer functionality, and I can't install the adobe plugin at work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Or a reliable portable 4.0.x? Roll your own portable version by copying the installation directory onto a USB stick. Very recently this became much easier.... 1. Install .NET 4.6.1 on whatever systems you need to run Paint.NET on 2. Install Paint.NET on a system 3. Copy the installation directory (e.g. C:\Program Files\paint.net) from that system to a USB stick 4. Take the USB stick to another computer that has .NET 4.6.1 already installed and run PaintDotNet.exe Starting with version 4.0.7, this is all you need to do. Microsoft made changes to the VC++ runtimes in Visual Studio 2015 which added an utterly ridiculous amount of complexity in the name of "simplifying" things (umm wut? see also: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2015/03/03/introducing-the-universal-crt.aspx ) However, as a side effect, it made it more practical for me to bundle it in the "app local deployment" sense than to include the VC++ runtime installer (which would add 14 MB to the download). Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Boz Posted January 25, 2016 Author Share Posted January 25, 2016 Tried it today, this doesn't work with .NET 4.0, so I'll try to talk my sysadmin into upgrading tomorrow. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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