DxO ViewPoint compatibilty

[JoeB]

Thank you so much. Script works beautifully!

Glad it worked. For this particular plugin, which only changes perspective, I also prefer to have it open the processed image in PSP as a separate image because of the perspective change and cropping. I wouldn't generally need it as a separate layer on the original image because, once I had fixed the perspective, I would be doing all of my subsequent editing and processing work on the perspective corrected, cropped image anyway.

[JoeB]

UPDATE: To Jan Shim, MikeFromMesa, and any others who might have tried using this script to open DXO Viewpoint 3.0 Standalone as a plugin in PSP:

In previous posts where I described how to save the changes made in Viewpoint (use File>Save As) and close Viewpoint (use File>Exit), I have found a more efficient method that works fine. (You may already know this, but just in case for those who might not....)

Once you have applied the perspective corrections to the image in Viewpoint, just click the X (Close) button at top right of the program. This will cause it to open a dialogue asking if you want to save your changes. Click the Save button. Unlike PSP (which automatically saves the document without giving you an option to tell it where to save), Viewpoint still opens an Explorer window. It defaults to the last saved folder you used, and if you have only using Viewpoint through the script then that should be your Documents folder, with the DXO_temp file at the top. Click that file, Click Save, click Yes when it asks if you want to overwrite the existing file, click to accept the default file options dialogue that might open (unless you want to change them), and Viewpoint will immediately close and return your processed file to PSP.

In other words, you don't actually have to use File>Save As to go through the routine of saving the file, and you don't have to use File>Exit after it is saved. You have already activated the Exit function by clicking on the X, and the necessary Save dialogues will then present themselves immediately, all without using the File menu choices.

Just keep in mind that Viewpoint defaults to the last Save folder it used. If you are always using Viewpoint always as a plugin, then the first time you saved you would have selected the Documents folder to make the script work properly, so that will always be the default folder thereafter. But if, for some reason, you have subsequently opened Viewpoint by itself (as Standalone) and used it to open other images from other folders and saved to those folders, the next time you use it as a plugin by using the script it will have defaulted to the last used folder. So when you save the next time you use it as a plugin you'll just have to first browse, in the browse window that opens, to the Documents folder. It will default to that folder for subsequent uses of the script.