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If you use Save (Ctrl S), it defaults to whatever format you used the last time.
If you use Save as (S), it defaults to the current image's format.
If you use "Save for web (plugin)" it seems to default always to JPG.
FIrst of all - thank you for your reply.
So it is my understanding that there is no way to specify default file extension when you are scanning not in the batch mode.
Am I right?
Previous version of the program "remembered" this extension and kept it somewhere.
I don't know which program you were using before, but you don't seem to be talking about IrfanView. If you're scanning a single image it is not saved to disk at all, but just scans to the IrfanView window.
Then when you save the scan it defaults to the format you used the last time. It was the same in IrfanView 3.97 — I don't have any earlier versions installed.
Bhikkhu is right that nothing has changed in recent versions in this respect.
After you have made a scan then I think that these are the defaults.
If you choose Save, the default directory is the same as the last one opened and is held in OpenDir= in the [Open] section of i_view32.ini
If you choose Save As, the default directory is the same as the last one that a Save As was made to and is held in SaveDir= in the [Copy-Move] section of i_view32.ini.
In either case the default extension after a scan is whatever the last Save As was and is held as a number in SaveIndex= in the [Others] section of i_view32.ini
Gentlemen
Thank you for your messages.
Let me elaborate. I'm not talkiong about directory. I'm taking about file type
What I want to know is the following.
After scanning with Irfanview image goes to RAM (not to the Irfanview window).
When I go with File=>Save it gives me a choice of directory (folder) - good!, but always gives me file type JP2. I would like to make a default FILE TYPE JPG
Is this possible? If "yes" - how to do it?
Thank you.
If the default extension is not changing to JPG when you save as JPG, maybe your i_view32.ini file is protected by the OS, but you haven't told us your OS or whether you have tried the method suggested — i.e. save as JPG to change the default to JPG.
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