Conflict Paint.net - v - Printer?

Miniminxie

This is a new issue for me.

I have a lot of .tiff pages that I have printed out many times before directly after opening them from the file. ie Double click, they open, I select print & they did just that. Happy Days.

Now the pages open in Paint.net, and shows the full page on the screen, I select print but it only prints the top, say, 2 inches of the page. If I ask for a print preview it only shows the 2 inches as being printable.

I have tried various ways to resolve this and I'm stuck.

(I tried saving the page as a png, the same thing happens.

I deleted Paint.net & reinstalled it, the same thing happens.

The printer prints other documents OK.

I opened a blank Print.net page coloured it in and looked at the print preview which looks as if it would print a full page)

Can anyone offer a solution please?

I thought maybe get all the .tiff files to open with something other than paint.net but I don't know how to do that

I'm not tech savvy so please respond in simple terms please.

TIA

Neil_Jones

This normally means one of two things:

1) you haven't set the right page size (A4/A6 or whatever), so you'll just get whatever fits on the sheet in the printer.

2) You haven't ticked "fit picture to frame" on the print preview.

TIFF files are massive.  they are uncompressed. Since TIFF does not use any compression algorithms like JPEG or GIF formats, the file contains more data and results in a more detailed picture. However, because TIFF files contain more data, the files are large and take up a lot of storage space.  The file format (TIFF, PNG, JPG etc) is irrelevant.

IvanOpinion

If you want to try opening in something other than paint.net then right click on the file (in Windows Explorer) and there should be an option saying "Open with....'.  Select this and then look for a different program that will open the tiff file.

Miniminxie

Thank you Neil - I checked those things and they were as they should be - still didn't solve the issue.

Thank you Ivan - I 'opened with .' photo and it printed fine.

 Is anyone able to tell me how I can make all the files in that set (there are lots) open with photo by default rather than having to remember to change the opener every time I use the files?

IvanOpinion

- Right click the file and again select 'Open with ... ' from the menu 
- on the child menu, towards the bottom, select 'Choose another app'
- a panel should open
- Select the app you wish to use (as before)
- select the checkbox labelled 'Always use this app ...'.
- click on OK
It should now use your chosen app automatically anytime you open a file with that extension. 

You can also do similar in the Settings panel in the 'Apps\DefaultApps\Choose default app by file type' section

Miniminxie

Sorry for the delay in saying Thank you Ivan - Thank you