It happens to me about 50 % of all time when I'm using the Paper Size dialog to crop an image:
No matter which alignment I select in the Placement drop-down box, PhotoPAINT uses the opposite direction.
This doesn't always happen, but it happens about every second time I use that dialog (and I use it often). It seems the error occurs randomly, probably not initializing some internal program memory location correctly.
This error is sooooooo annoying and frustrating!
Please fix quickly.
Thanks,
I'd love to give an example. But there are two problems yet keeping me from doing so:
Well, of course I could fake one ...
Here's a series of pictures depicting the problem:
As you can see, I've selected "Bottom Right" for the edge I want to keep:
But as you can see here, PhotoPAINT took the "Top Right" edge of the image:
Ah, but no matter which interpretation you put on "bottom right", surely the biggest part of the problem seems that, according to the captured images, what it shows is not what it does.
As I understand it from DrawMeIn's captures above, the preview shows the bottom right corner of the original image, but the result was the top right corner. That cannot be right, no matter where you think bottom right should be.
There is also a difference between your example and DrawMeIn's. You are I think increasing the paper size, but he is reducing it. Perhaps that contributes to the misunderstanding.
Yepp, exactly. Thanks, Harry.
Plus: The behaviour changes randomly. Sometimes it's the "correct" corner that's returned, sometimes it's not. That's the most agonizing problem.
DrawMeIn said: Yepp, exactly. Thanks, Harry. Plus: The behaviour changes randomly. Sometimes it's the "correct" corner that's returned, sometimes it's not. That's the most agonizing problem.
Hi DrawMein,
I have never had a single fail of the dialog box in 16 years of very regular use and I have never read of anyone else ever having this issue. I still do not believe this to be a Photo-Paint 'generic issue' and do not believe there is a bug for Corel to fix. I wonder if something else on your system is conflicting with Photo-Paint and causing the issue?
On second thoughts - with you mentioning that this has happened to you for several years across several computers - is your CDGS in a different language to English? If so, I wonder if it has anything to do with the language your Photo-Paint is in? I can't think why it would have any relevance, but computers are strange devices! I am sorry to hear you are having such issues though.
Best regards,Brian