IrfanView Thumbnails- PaintShop Pro images?

[Terry Pinnell]

I'm trying to use IrfanView Thumbnails to browse a folder of files
made with PaintShop Pro 8, but they're all black. I'm sure there's
some setting or plug-in to fix this but darned if I can find it ;-(

Can someone remind me please?

--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK

[REM]

>Terry Pinnell <terr...@dial.pipex.com> wrote:

>I'm trying to use IrfanView Thumbnails to browse a folder of files
>made with PaintShop Pro 8, but they're all black. I'm sure there's
>some setting or plug-in to fix this but darned if I can find it ;-(

>Can someone remind me please?

Are the PSP files in a standard format, such as .jpg, .bmp., etc?

Or, are they in the proprietary PSP format? I don't know what that
extension ism but I wouldn't be surprised if other programs cannot
open or convert.

[mianileng]

Terry Pinnell wrote:
> I'm trying to use IrfanView Thumbnails to browse a folder of
> files
> made with PaintShop Pro 8, but they're all black. I'm sure
> there's
> some setting or plug-in to fix this but darned if I can find it
> ;-(
>
> Can someone remind me please?

I don't have any PSP image to test with, but my installation of
Irfanview 4.23 with plugins lists the Paint Shop Pro extension
.PSP among compatible formats.

[REM]

> "mianileng" <mian...@invalid.invalid> wrote:

http://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm

Man. I really only used it to resize images. They have plugins galore.

There is a link to get all plugins in one installation file. I'll have
to grab that the next time I have high speed.

[j. calster]

IrfanView and Photoline can both read Paint Shop Pro image formats.

In IrfanView the coding to view/read .PSP and .PSPIMAGE files is contained
in the "Formats.dll" plugin, usually downloaded in the complete plugins
pack.

[mianileng]

REM wrote:
>> "mianileng" <mian...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>>> Terry Pinnell wrote:
>>> I'm trying to use IrfanView Thumbnails to browse a folder of
>>> files
>>> made with PaintShop Pro 8, but they're all black. I'm sure
>>> there's
>>> some setting or plug-in to fix this but darned if I can find
>>> it
>>> ;-(
>
>>> Can someone remind me please?
>
>> I don't have any PSP image to test with, but my installation
>> of
>> Irfanview 4.23 with plugins lists the Paint Shop Pro extension
>> .PSP among compatible formats.
>
> http://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm
>

Yep. It was negligent of me not to provide the link in my
previous post.

> Man. I really only used it to resize images. They have plugins
> galore.
>
> There is a link to get all plugins in one installation file.
> I'll have
> to grab that the next time I have high speed.

I feel for you. It's only a little over a year since I first
started using broadband. Downloads like the 7MB Irfanview plugin
seem trivial now even on my modest 2 Mbps connection, but I well
remember how huge it seemed on dial-up.

[Terry Pinnell]

REMbr...@netscape.com (REM) wrote:

Thanks all. It's odd, as I do have the full plug-in set. I haven't
included .PSPimage in my IrfanView associations (I open them for
editing in PSP 8) but that shouldn't affect IV's ability to view them.
Yet whatever method I use (Open With, drag, etc) they just appear
black.

[Terry Pinnell]

Terry Pinnell <terr...@dial.pipex.com> wrote:

OK, sorted thanks. This has caught me out before and I'd forgotten.
IrfanView cannot render PSP files with layers. The batch I was trying
were all freshly created text on a black background.

When I merged all layers together, IV could display them.

[Ron Hunter]

All users of Irfanview should always download the plugins package with
the same release number, and update their plugins. Only takes a few
seconds.