Indeed, this "paint" doesn't do anything other than .bmp and .dib
formats.
JSI is a great resource Sieste but its answer, as you paste, is
incomplete. By default, MS Paint *also* supports/views/whatever .dib
files. .Dib, or "device-independent bitmap" was a crossover from the
IBM-MS OS/2 days...circa 1992 and has been supported -by default- in
MS Paint since Windoze 3.x...at least through win2k.
You're absolutely right, Craig.
It must have looked like I was correcting you (bmp only vs bmp and dib),
but I just pasted from the JSI page and then forgot that you actually
had mentioned the dib file.
B.t.w. I guess that JSI were sort of shortcutting on purpose, mentioning
only the format that the 'normal' user knows or cares about, as to not
unnecessarily complicate things.
Paint.Net has nothing to do with MSPaint or Microsoft (other than
that their developers get some support).
Rick Brewster, Tom Jackson & Dennis Dietrich, the *only* three to be
given credit for *any* work on Paint.Net 2.5 & 2.6, are all MS
employees. Rick Brewster, MS project lead for Paint.Net, writes:
"Any similarity between [MS Paint and Paint.Net] is on purpose, and is
neither accidental nor the fault of legacy code."
Paint.Net was "suggested" by Kerry Hammil, an employee of MS' Avalon
Group, to Washington State University's Comp Sci class in her role as
the class Project Mentor. According to Brewster, she suggested they
"update Paint."
Paint.Net is the successor to MS Paint (according to the MS employees
Hammil and Brewster). Paint.Net receives critical (not some) support
from MS in the form of developers, project leads, facilities and
equipment.
<shrugs>
I can understand your <shrugs> as I did not word this well.
So here I will try a bit better.
You mentioned only Paint.NET as the solution for the JPG problem, while
I expected e.g. Irfanview as a much more obvious candidate.
Basically any program will save in JPG and many also in GIF and PNG.
My impression is also that many freeware Paint 'replacements' have more
the look and feel of MS Paint than Paint.NET does. And do not require
the .NET Framework.
One reason for your suggestion could be that because the OP's problem
was with MS Paint a good suggestion would be the next version of MS
Paint, which supposedly would be Paint.NET and already available.
The program has been named *Microsoft* Paint.NET several times here.
So I thought that you might not understand what it actually is.
I wanted to make clear that it is not the next version of MS Paint and
that it basically is not even a Microsft program.
Must admit that making this point I have understated Microsofts support.
Now, to be sure, from the FAQ:
"Will Paint.NET ever replace Paint in Windows?
There are no plans to include Paint.NET with Windows"
So I don't quite understand how Kerry Hammil or Rick Brewster could have
called it the successor to MS Paint (and I also did not find that
description) as this would suggest it to be (to me at least) the next
version of MS Paint.
You do find terms like 'Paint update' and 'Paint replacement'.
I think it is just that, an extra freeware (and a fairly open project at
that) that you can download, like there are also a lot of freeware
'Notepad replacements', sometimes decribed as having the basic Notepad
capabilities, but 'updated' with new features.
Thanks for the links, Craig.
Especially the interview.
