Saving as jpeg/jpg in MSPaint

the_syco

Hi all,
For just a little bit of editing, I like to use MSPaint, but after a reinstall of Windows2000 a few months back, I'm unable to save in jpeg format

I have all the options for MS Office to "run from disk", but still no joy.

The odd thing is, I can open up jpeg files, but I can't save files as jpeg in mspaint. In MS Imaging, I can, but as that has no editing tools, I'm stuck with MSPaint.

Any idea's? Thanks in advance for any help.

Champ

Open up the file in Paint, do the work and save it as bmp. Open it in Photo Editor / Imaging and save it in jpeg / png.
Thats what i do. :cool:

If the original format is in jpeg, i believe Photo Editor / Imaging can save it in bmp?

You need Office 97 or later to open or save JPEG files in Paint, but I see that you already have it. Try saving the following text to a registry file (.reg) using Notepad and import it.
If this doesn't work, then try changing "C:\\PROGRA~1\\COMMON~1\\MICROS~1\\Grphflt\\JPEGIM32.FLT" to "C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Microsoft Shared\\Grphflt\\JPEGIM32.FLT.

Make sure that REGEDIT4 is the first line.

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics Filters\Export\JPEG]
"Path"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\COMMON~1\\MICROS~1\\Grphflt\\JPEGIM32.FLT"
"Name"="JPEG File Interchange Format"
"Extensions"="jpg"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics Filters\Export\JPEG\Options]
"ShowProgressDialog"="Yes"
"Quality"="0x0000004b"

the_syco

Karsini wrote:

You need Office 97 or later to open or save JPEG files in Paint, but I see that you already have it. Try saving the following text to a registry file (.reg) using Notepad and import it.
If this doesn't work, then try changing "C:\\PROGRA~1\\COMMON~1\\MICROS~1\\Grphflt\\JPEGIM32.FLT" to "C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\Microsoft Shared\\Grphflt\\JPEGIM32.FLT.

Make sure that REGEDIT4 is the first line.

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics Filters\Export\JPEG]
"Path"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\COMMON~1\\MICROS~1\\Grphflt\\JPEGIM32.FLT"
"Name"="JPEG File Interchange Format"
"Extensions"="jpg"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics Filters\Export\JPEG\Options]
"ShowProgressDialog"="Yes"
"Quality"="0x0000004b"

Thanks Karsini. When I found that the stuff in the "Import" folder was not the same as the "Export" folder, I made a few additions. It now works like a charm.

Champ; if you can use regedit, goto
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Graphics Filters\
and look @ the Export folder of JPEG, and the Import folder of JPEG, and if they're not the same, add in the ones to make the ones in the Import, the same as the Export, if this makes any sense to you.