ViRUS Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 (edited) Hey! I'm having quite a bit of a problem with Paint.NET. I'm scanning some text and saving it in black and white BMP files, usually around 60KB each. Thing is, I need to edit those files to rotate the image a bit (sometimes the pages are misplaced) and when I save them as PNG files, they end up being even larger than the original file (around 100KB each). I tried opening them up using Win7's Paint, and after saving them as PNG, I get a file of around 16KB. Obviously there's some setting in Paint.NET that I'm missing, would you mind pointing me to it? EDIT: Oh, I forgot to mention that I've also fiddled around with the settings in the "Save as..." dialog to no avail Edited July 4, 2011 by ViRUS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 Paint.NET does not support saving 1-bit per pixel images. Some file types (such as PNG) support 8-bit, but that's the lowest that can be accomplished. 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...
ViRUS Posted July 4, 2011 Author Share Posted July 4, 2011 Oh bummer... Well, I guess I'll be using a different tool for this job then. Thanks for your answer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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