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by jsachs
August 19th, 2020, 1:01 pm
Forum: Picture Window Support
Topic: The Grid counter stays visible
Replies: 1
Views: 881

Re: The Grid counter stays visible

Fixed for next release.
by jsachs
August 19th, 2020, 1:00 pm
Forum: Picture Window Support
Topic: Picture Loads with distortions in PWP8; OK with PWP7
Replies: 4
Views: 1722

Re: Picture Loads with distortions in PWP8; OK with PWP7

Do you by any chance have either the Show Clipped Highlights or Show Clipped Shadows button depressed?
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by jsachs
August 19th, 2020, 7:47 am
Forum: Picture Window Support
Topic: Update Available - Version 8.0.135
Replies: 0
Views: 1999

Update Available - Version 8.0.135

An update is available to Version 8.0.135 (19-Aug-2020) The changes (taken from the update log) are: Mask Feather Tool: Increased maximum feather radius to 256 pixels and made the slider nonlinear so you can still select small values easily. Fixed problems with Grid control display in the main tool ...
by jsachs
August 19th, 2020, 7:10 am
Forum: Picture Window Support
Topic: A question about pdf
Replies: 15
Views: 6784

Re: A question about pdf

There are a lot of different ways to represent an image within a PDF file -- some involve compression and possible loss of data. There is also the issue of the color profile. I have no specific information about different converters, but some caution is warranted. From Wikipedia: Raster images in PD...
by jsachs
August 18th, 2020, 6:46 pm
Forum: Picture Window Support
Topic: Masking questions
Replies: 3
Views: 1473

Re: Masking questions

On Cancel, when I try it here is seems to reliably cancel the second time I click the Cancel button. Not sure why it takes two times. On Composite, there are a couple of ways I can think of to do what you want, but they both work with the same idea. 1) The most general way is to save the mask settin...
by jsachs
August 17th, 2020, 3:19 pm
Forum: Picture Window Support
Topic: Update Available - Version 8.0.134
Replies: 0
Views: 2018

Update Available - Version 8.0.134

An update is available to Version 8.0.134 (17-Aug-2020) The changes (taken from the update log) are: Created a new document: IR Photography.pdf which deals with how to take digital infrared photographs and how to process them using Picture Window. Grid and Crop Composition Guides: Added Circular gri...
by jsachs
August 16th, 2020, 8:01 pm
Forum: Picture Window Tips
Topic: Any way to rotate a panel within a layout
Replies: 3
Views: 6500

Re: Any way to rotate a panel within a layout

Actually there is currently a way to do this although it is not very convenient. Rotate the panel image using the Level transformation and set the cropping control to the rightmost button -- the one that preserves the entire image without cropping. Create an all-white 8-bit black and white image of ...
by jsachs
August 15th, 2020, 5:00 pm
Forum: Picture Window Support
Topic: Update Available - Version 8.0.132
Replies: 2
Views: 1216

Re: Update Available - Version 8.0.132

Great - thanks for posting.
by jsachs
August 15th, 2020, 2:50 pm
Forum: Picture Window Tips
Topic: Any way to rotate a panel within a layout
Replies: 3
Views: 6500

Re: Any way to rotate a panel within a layout

I have had on my to-do list for a long time to add support for rotated panels -- for now only 90 degree rotations are supported, and only for images, not text.
by jsachs
August 15th, 2020, 6:18 am
Forum: Picture Window Support
Topic: Update Available - Version 8.0.133
Replies: 0
Views: 2044

Update Available - Version 8.0.133

An update is available to Version 8.0.133 (15-Aug-2020) The changes (taken from the update log) are: Copy Card to Folder: Fixed formatting error in final confirmation message box. Text transformation and Text control (used by Line, Arrow, Text tool): In addition to an Alignment setting, there is now...