ztycx Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 I copied and pasted an excel chart to paint.net, then resized the DPI to 300 and saved as TIFF. but found out that the saved tiff image was of 96 DPI in fact. is it a bug or anything that i did wrongly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 TIFF is an old file format and is inferior to PNG. Your best bet is to change to the lossless PNG format. Honestly, you shouldn't ever use TIFF if you can avoid it. It is provided in Paint.NET only as a best-faith convenience feature. Also of interest: 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...
ztycx Posted October 28, 2010 Author Share Posted October 28, 2010 ok. i tried to save into PNG. the problem remained, the saved image is 96 DPI although i set 300 dpi in paint.net. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ztycx Posted October 28, 2010 Author Share Posted October 28, 2010 well, i also tried with BMP. finally it worked and saved the image in 300DPI. is it a bug in paint.net? it seems the program ignored the setting of DPI while saving into the format other than BMP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ztycx Posted October 28, 2010 Author Share Posted October 28, 2010 (edited) by the way, there should be some "menu item" in paint.net that can show the image properties, right? but i cannot find it. please enlight me bros. Edited October 28, 2010 by ztycx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarkut Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 So far as I know, you have to go to the file in its folder. Right-click > Properties Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ztycx Posted October 28, 2010 Author Share Posted October 28, 2010 So far as I know, you have to go to the file in its folder. Right-click > Properties it doesn't show info about DPI. windows7 built-in paint has the option to display image properties. i thought paint.net should be better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarkut Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 I use Vista, which does show DPI in the Details tab of Properties. Opened a JPEG, set it to 300 DPI, saved as TIFF. It retained the 300 DPI setting when re-opened. Don't know why yours doesn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 ok. i tried to save into PNG. the problem remained, the saved image is 96 DPI although i set 300 dpi in paint.net. How did you set the DPI? 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...
Rick Brewster Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 The DPI is in the Image->Resize dialog, as "Resolution". Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ztycx Posted October 29, 2010 Author Share Posted October 29, 2010 The DPI is in the Image->Resize dialog, as "Resolution". yes. that's where i changed the DPI. i'm using paint.net 3.55 (downloaded from getpaint.net) in win 7 home premium. on my machine, DPI setting only works while saving into BMP. 96 DPI is used while saving into PNG/TIFF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ztycx Posted October 29, 2010 Author Share Posted October 29, 2010 (edited) just found that DPI setting also works with JPG. the summary: BMP/JPG: customizable DPI PNG/TIFF: fixed 96 DPI is there any options that are configurable in paint.net? Edited October 29, 2010 by ztycx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 I'm not reproducing you problem. Image opened (@72DPI) and changed to 300. Saved as *.png. Closed. Reopened. 300DPI persists. 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...
ztycx Posted October 29, 2010 Author Share Posted October 29, 2010 thanks for all the replies. seems that it's bug in win7. tried paint.net 3.5.4 in both winxp sp2 and win7 home premium. dpi setting worked in winxp sp2, but NOT worked in win7 for PNG/TIFF format can any bro confirm this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookies Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 I have Win7 ultimate, no problems here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csm725 Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 (edited) Win7 Home x64, no problems. Edited October 29, 2010 by csm725 Quote My deviantART | Sig Battles | My Tutorials | csm725.com Click to enter or vote in the official Paint.NET competitions! COMPETITIONS: LOGO OF THE WEEK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toli Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 Win7 Professional x64, no problems. Win7 Professional x86, no problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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