IrfanPaint Support Thread

[MItaly]

It's my same version... I really don't know what to think.
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And if you copy the characters from somewhere else and paste them in the RichEdit are they displayed correctly? Do you experience the same problem in other applications that use the RichEdit control (e.g. WordPad)?

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Do you experience the same problem in other applications that use the RichEdit control (e.g. WordPad)?

No problems at all in Wordpad. The text was copied from my earlier post. It is odd that Ā shows OK in IV Paint, but not ā.

[matera]

riched20 - version 3.0, file version 5.30.23.1221
Not getting any fixedsys, all comes out same as in Wordpad

[Sam_Zen]

Peculiar. I happened to have both riched20.dll and riched32.dll on the system.
And the '20' appears to be more recent. Or not?
20 : 5.30.23.1215
32 : 5.0.2134.1

With Akelpad and IV I got what Bhikkhu wrote :
0257 ā to 0299 ī

The square of the .notdef glyph problem is fixed indeed. Nice work.

[MItaly]

No problems at all in Wordpad. The text was copied from my earlier post. It is odd that Ā shows OK in IV Paint, but not ā.

It seems to be a problem of font mappings; the RichEdit control thinks that that character is a Chinese character, so tries to change it to another font which supports it: the right one should be SimSun, but on your system for some reason it changes to Fixedsys (which is a raster and non-Unicode font); do you have SimSun installed?

Peculiar. I happened to have both riched20.dll and riched32.dll on the system.

It's normal.

The square of the .notdef glyph problem is fixed indeed. Nice work.

Thank you.

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

It seems to be a problem of font mappings; the RichEdit control thinks that that character is a Chinese character, so tries to change it to another font which supports it: the right one should be SimSun, but on your system for some reason it changes to Fixedsys (which is a raster and non-Unicode font); do you have SimSun installed?

No. I have MingLiu and PMingLiu installed.

[MItaly]

Try to download and install it.

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

I think the problem may lie with the way that text is encoded by Opera browser. Copying and pasting character sets from PagePlus works OK. I will try without the Samsun font too, as that may be a red-herring. Edit: Yes. It still works OK without Samsun installed, unless I cut and paste from my browser or use Alt Key Input.

[Bob Kellock]

Colour selector oddity

When I click on one of the selector rectangles in Paint the pop-up shows a 16 x 16 grid of squares but with only a very limited number of colours repeated several times (see the attachment).

The selector for image/canvas size/border colour works correctly.

This behaviour MAY have only happened since I installed Microsoft .NET.

Any suggestions?

Bob

[matera]

What is the color range of the image you are editing? See my attached images, one editing a JPG, the other a 256-color GIF. If the color palette of the image is limited, you get only those colors that it actually contains, unless you increase the color depth befor editing.

[Bob Kellock]

Re: Colour selector oddity

Thanks - that certainly explains the cause as it was an 8 bit GIF that I was playing with.

Even so, wouldn't it be better to put up a colour selector relevant to colour range rather than just the currently used colours?

Bob

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

With a JPG image that currently contains only 256 colours you can add more colours, with a GIF image you cannot — you can only use one or other of the colours in the current palette. Start with a 16 colour GIF and increase the number of colours to 256, then to 16.7 million and see what happens to the colour selector in IrfanPaint. Or, start with a full colour image and see what happens when you reduce the number of colours. If you had a black and white image, what would be the purpose of selecting blue or red for the paintbrush?

[Vorchek]

Clone Tool Difficulty

I am suffering from what seems to be a bug related to use of the clone tool. In every case the operation begins well; however, after a while it starts to fail, apparently doing nothing, at times (at least) actually cloning offset from where I am trying to do it. I get the impression that closing and opening Irfanview again usually-- but not always-- gets me back the function. Is it a memory issue? Because of this problem clone work takes a lot longer than it should.
Is this a known bug? Or, am I doing something known to be wrong, or overlooking the obvious, and just need to have the rules explained?
Thank you.

[MItaly]

Which version of IrfanPaint are you using?

[Vorchek]

Thank you for your reply. Lately I've been using 0.4.5.48. Yesterday I downloaded b0.4.9.58 to see if that would solve the problem. I still have the problem.