[To Be Solved In Future]Default View Settings Please

[Aharon Dayan]

Hello all wonderful tech support members,

When I open in PSP2023 25 to 50 screenshots at same time, the default view of each is 50 percent. I cannot find anywhere in settings of PSP2023 Ultimate that enables me to change the default view from 50 percent to 65 percent.

In previous versions of PSP such as X9, X6, X4, and X2, the default view of each screenshot is always 68 percent which is fine with me.

Any suggestions please? It would be time consuming for me to change the view from 50 percent to 65 percent in each of 25 to 50 screenshots.

Regards,

Aharon

[LeviFiction]

There is no default percentage, technically. PSP uses zoom to "Fit image to window" upon opening. How much of a zoom percentage depends on the size of the image, and the size of the workspace it's opening up into.

For example, I have an image that's 1163x872 in size. My Screen resolution is set at 1920x1080 with zero scaling enabled. When I have PSP maximized, and tabbed documents turned off, PSP opens the image zoomed at 92%. If I turn tabbed documents on, which takes up less space, the image opens zoomed into 94%. More screen space requires less zoom to fit the image.

If I "Restore Down" the PSP program window to 1440x768 and open the same image in Tabbed mode it shows it's now zoomed at 63%. If I use Windowed mode it opens zoomed to 60%.

So, as you can see, it depends on the size of the canvas space available inside PSP when you open the image and the size of that image. It's not a default percentage. If all of the images you're batch editing have the same size and you never resize PSP it'll look like a default constant percentage but it's calculated on every single image opened.

What you want to do, is play with anything you can resize and move to get the window to open your images at the percentage you're wanting.

[Aharon Dayan]

Thanks, Levi

That is what I suspected and thought so. Oh darn Is there any clever trick that change view from 50 percent to 68 percent of 25 to 50 screenshots AT SAME TIME instead of doing manually on each of 25 to 50 screenshots?? If not, I can survive

Regards,

Aharon

[Jean-Luc]

I thought it was possible to use a script to do this. When a command has been executed on an image, it is displayed in the History (F3), and by right-clicking on this command in the History, it can be automatically applied to all other images open on the work plan.
But PSP won't do it.
Here's what I tried:
- open several images of the same size in the workspace (untabbed)
- start recording a script
- reduce the zoom of the first image to 50%.
(Zoom out icon in the tool's options when the Pan tool is active)
- save the script. Zoom out is saved in the script.
- Zoom in on the image to restore its original zoom ratio
- run the zoom out script on this image. The zooming out is applied.
- display History (F3)
- in principle, you should see the zoom out script displayed and right-click to apply it to other images open on the work plan, but PSP does not display the zoom out script that has been executed.

[LeviFiction]

Yeah, this has been asked several times on the forums over the years. Zooming and scripting has an odd relationship. Never did figure out how it all works. The way zoom works because it's a UI feature is that it works on the currently active image. But not "active" as scripting understands it. Active only on the image that's visibly selected in the UI. So there's no way to use the normal methods to apply a zoom on all open images in a batch.

Once upon a time PSP used a custom open dialog that allowed for running a script upon opening an image. I never tested to see if that would set the zoom for every image as it opened or if it only ran on the last opened image, but recent versions use the default Open Dialog provided by Windows. So I don't think that's even an option anymore.

I don't remember if anyone ever tried scriptlets, I think it was discussed but do not recall any of the results. Though I doubt those are useful. A scriptlet is a script that runs when you drag images directly onto the PSP Program icon on your desktop. It requires editing the shortcut to include the "/script C:/script/path/here/script.pspscript" call in the File path field. And then it executes the script on each image dragged in.

EDIT: If you have Microsoft's PowerAutomate or similar automation software it might be possible to make an action there that goes through all of the images and performs the zoom command one by one. But it wouldn't be fast as it actively goes through the UI.

[Aharon Dayan]

Jean-Luc and Levi,

Thank you so much for your very kind and well detailed explanations. Sorry if I asked the question that has been asked many times in the past on those forums. I did not know.

I am guessing that Corel's programming geniuses might incorporate in future PSP 2024 or 2025 the new feature that allows users to zoom in or out at SAME TIME for 25 to 50 screenshots.

Regards,

Aharon

[LeviFiction]

Don't worry about asking questions that have been asked before. I was just referring to how many times scripting has been brought up as a solution and we never seem to come up with a good solution in response to jean-luc.