Out of Memory??

[TonyK73]

Hello - I'm trying to paste a JPG image from the clipboard that I copied from another program but I am getting an Out of Memory error. I have 3GB of RAM, a 500GB HDD, and my virtual memory setting have no restrictions, so I do not understand why. Any idea what's going on?

Thanks,
Tony

[MItaly]

How big is that image?

[TonyK73]

As a PNG file, it is 161KB. When I load the file from IrfanView, it loads OK. The problem happens when I try to paste the image into IV without first saving it in a file. I just verified again that I get the OOM message.

Tony

[MItaly]

I'm not talking about the file size, but the width and height of the image and its color depth.

[TonyK73]

400x400x24 as reported by IrfanView from the file version of the image.

[MItaly]

Really strange, even in the uncompressed DIB format (that is the one that IV uses in memory) it should take only about 300KiB.

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Can you attach the image here? What was the other program?

[TonyK73]

Here is the image. I pasted it into EssentialPIM. Then I selected it again and tried to paste it into IV, which then gve me the OOM message.

My profile details are correct.

Hmmm, paste does not work in the message box, so I am attaching the PNG file.

Tony

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Nothing odd about the file. Looks like it must be a bug with the EssentialPIM

[Skippybox]

I thought you said it was PNG. You uploaded a JPG. You also mentioned a JPG in your OP. Did you open the JPG in IrfanView, too?

[TonyK73]

Both the JPG version and the PNG version of the file loads correctly in IV. But if I do not create a file and just do a cut and paste then IV gives me the OOM. But if it matters, here's the PNG version of the same file.

As an experiment I tried to cut and paste the same image from EssentialPIM into MS Word and it worked. I also tried OpenOffice and it worked there also. I then saved the Word doc, closed it, and reopened it, selected the image, and tried to paste it into IV. That too worked. I then verified that selecting the image in EP and pasting into IV failed. It did. So it does sound like the problem is with EP as a server of the image although Word and and OO can deal with it even if it is wrong where IV fails to correct whatever the problem is.

[Skippybox]

I think the problem is the unusual invalid object EssentialPIM is trying to use. I tried copying an image from it and ran into the same problem as you. But, I don't think it is an IrfanView bug. I tried several other viewers and editors, and none of them even allow pasting of such objects. Look at MS Paint. I tried even Photoshop Elements and got this error:



Notice that the MS Office Clipboard does not even collect it. So, I looked in the Windows Clipboard, and nothing is shown except for the message, "The information is in binary format. ClipBook Viewer cannot display this format. To view the information, try pasting it into a document." In both Windows Clipboard and Word, the image is detected as text and not a picture or metafile. I even tried saving the data as a CLP file and loading that in IrfanView, but no luck.

I think that Word and other document programs are far more forgiving of such items, and can convert it into something usable. They accept pretty much anything, but graphics programs simply do not. So, I think the only flaw that IrfanView has, is that it does not dim the clipboard telling you it is not possible.