Hello,

I've recently encountered a change in behavior with PMView Pro, where certain operations (File Open, and most especially Screen Capture) will jump from the monitor on which you are working to a different monitor (almost always the Primary Main Windows Desktop monitor). For example, you will capture an area of the screen and the entire PMView Pro window with the capture will jump over to another monitor. It also usually ends up as a narrow window maybe 150 pixels wide (guess) which makes it cumbersome to manipulate it back to normal working size. This behavior is occurring with Windows 10 22H2 with the monitors set in extended desktop mode.

It is also possible this is occurring due to the monitor being driven over a USB-C connection (i.e. through a USB-C to Displayport converter) But as a general note, PM View Pro is the only application which seems to be behaving this way. Also, I use PMView Pro extensively on a different computer with a 4-monitor set-up (also Win 10 Pro 22H2) , but all the monitors being driven by Displayport outputs from two Nvidia cards and PM View Pro performs perfectly. Which is why I suspect (but cannot prove) the connection to the video over USB link.

I am just curious if this is a reported occurrence with a quick fix or a rare bug that is annoying but will just need to be lived with.

Thanks!

Best Regards,
Toby

<<An option to disable the mouse wheel in PMView was added in v3.20, released 10/10/2005, almost 15 years ago >>

My apologies! Being an old scanner guy, when I saw TWAIN on the tab , I never bothered to look in that menu since a scanner is not my normal use case. 2005, eh? A couple of years after I joined this forum! If it is any small consolation, I have paid for my ignorance with 15 years of mouse-wheel-scrolling penance!

<<That said, I agree it would be nice if it was possible to let the mouse wheel zoom, so in PMView v3.82 the checkbox is replaced with a drop down selection that lets you choose the desired function:>>

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Kindest Regards,
Toby

Hello!

I have used PMView for many years (since the original OS/2 days!) and it is a great utility. However there is one feature that I have desperately wanted over the years and that is the option to control the magnification of the image using the mouse wheel instead of the usual behavior of advancing to the next image.

As an engineer working in a CAD environment, the mouse wheel is universally used in all CAD software for view magnification (and in most browsers and Acrobat, the same with the addition of a control key press) So as PMView is being used to compose reports (screen capture, cropping, image adjustment), even after all these years it is common (like 5 - 10 times/day) to have to stop and click "Cancel" when the mouse wheel is moved and the software prompts to Save the current image. This is especially true with high resolution mice, where even the slightest bump can trigger the Save dialog.

Barring the use of the mouse wheel for image magnification, an option setting to simply disable the mouse wheel in PMView would still be a massive improvement since it would stop work flow interruptions (i.e. having to press Cancel on the Save dialog box).

I appreciate your consideration of this request! Thanks for such a great product!

Best Regards,
Toby

Hello!

I noticed PMVIEW v3.80 was posted to the BMT Micro Download site but there is not release notes mentioned on the pmview.com web site. What are the changes for this release?

Thanks!
Toby

Update: At some point in the last week or so, updates applied to Norton Internet Security have now made this Symantec product cause the same slow loading behavior with PMView. It appears to be not quite as slow, taking about 4 seconds for PMView to launch. A small work around: if you leave a PMView instance open minimized, any subsequence instances opened will load instantly. Just an fyi. All of this is under Windows 7 Pro BTW. Thanks, Toby

Hello.

Last night we received an update for Symantec Endpoint Protection ( Definition File Version 161115009)
This has caused PMView to launch much more slowly ( <1 second previously to almost 15 seconds now). Obviously this has made browsing images much more difficult.
A process trace using Microsoft Promon run during PMView launch showed the process hitting the SEP files dozens (hundreds?) of times during launch.

The system admin added a central excetion for the PMView.exe process and this decreased the launch time from about 15 seconds down to about 4 seconds (and stopped it's interaction with SEP).
But it is still longer than usual. I suspect the remaining additional time is now due to some other Windows process used by PMview taking longer than previously to launch due to the new
SEP definitions.

This is NOT a PMView problem but an interaction with SEP. Just letting you know this is occurring.

Best Regards,
Toby

Hello!

Maybe PMView Pro can already do this....

It wouldbe great if there was a preference switch that would allow the mouse scroll wheel to control the zoom magnification (zoom in and zoom out). The current default is to load the next/previous image, I believe.

I use several CAD apps all day long and they pretty much all use the scroll wheel for zoom control. It causes me a bit of confusion when I switch to PM View and suddenly find myself flipping through a bunch of images when I roll the wheel.

Thanks!!!

Cheers,
Toby

Hello!

This may be a feature request, unless PM View already does this!

1)Is there a way to convert all the black in an image to white, while not affecting the other colors? This is a very useful function when printing out screen shots, especially from CAD systems (it saves a lot of black ink on the printer!).

2)It would be great if PM View offered support for three button mice, where two of the buttons would zoom in and out (with the zoom function selected) and the third would allow panning.

Thanks,
Toby