http://www.onthegosoft.com/blog Tips, news and ideas for using our programs Tue, 05 May 2009 13:50:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Shrink Pic is a program that automatically resizes photos sent by email or uploaded to the web. it catches file read operations in other programs and replaces large photos with smaller versions. It's is a C++ program, written using the excellent wxWidgets library. We've recently localized it to Spanish, French, German ... http://www.onthegosoft.com/blog/2009/05/shrink-pic-localization-behind-the-scenes/ We've finally released Shrink Pic with support for Internet Explorer and Outlook. A nasty bug, caused by Explorer's privacy mode (which is a pretty good thing by itself) caused Shrink Pic not to kick in. Another bug, which some of you might have noticed (and many reported) was crashing Outlook. Yes, Shrink ... http://www.onthegosoft.com/blog/2009/03/shrink-pic-with-proper-vista-support/ [caption id="" align="alignright" width="213" caption="Click image to see 2 minute demo"][/caption] There was a serious bug in previous versions of Passport Photo which prevented printing child ID cards. Passport Photo 2.1.1 fixes this problem and child ID card printing is working again. We'd like to thank all of you who sent us ... http://www.onthegosoft.com/blog/2009/01/child-id-cards-working-again/ Two weeks ago, we asked our clients what printer and paper they're using for printing passport pictures. Until now, 17 people responded by leaving comments in the printer and paper survey page. We summarized the results in a table, to make it easier to skim through. It appears that people are very ... http://www.onthegosoft.com/blog/2008/12/poll-results-special-passport-printing-equipment-is-unnecessary/ Passport Photo 2.1.0 adds the ability to write text on the photos. Who needs something like this? Identity documents, such as driver license in some countries require that names and IDs be printed on the photo. Passport Photo lets you select the position of the text and its color. Text size is ... http://www.onthegosoft.com/blog/2008/12/passport-photo-210-released/ Do you like to send home photos when going on vacation? Shrink Pic 1.6 makes it especially easy! Shrink Pic now fully supports portable mode. This means, it can run without being installed. Shrink Pic can copy itself to any USB memory, including your digital camera or a memory stick. Then, you can ... http://www.onthegosoft.com/blog/2008/09/take-shrink-pic-with-you-when-traveling/ Recently, we received some great feedback from Passport Photo users about features that they would find useful. Here are some of these ideas: Add support for Canadian Citizenship photos - it turns out that in order to print Canadian Citizenship photos, a 10mm white strip needs to be included under the photo. ... http://www.onthegosoft.com/blog/2008/08/new-planned-features-for-passport-photo/ We just released Shrink Pic 1.5, which now also supports Vista Mail. If you've been using Shrink Pic on Windows XP and can't use it after moving to Vista Mail, this upgrade is for you! Also included in this version is the ability to control JPEG compression quality. This value determines ... http://www.onthegosoft.com/blog/2008/08/shrink-pic-15-with-vista-mail-support/ We've just released Passport Photo 2.0.0. This release includes, in addition to printing passport pictures, the ability to print child ID tags. These tags include your child's photo, your photos and any information you choose to include. They can be worn by the child when going to public places. The child ID cards ... http://www.onthegosoft.com/blog/2008/04/passport-photo-200-creates-child-id-cards-in-addition-to-passport-pictures/ Most of the passport photos people take at home are just fine, and they don't have to be perfect in order to be accepted. The most common problems we see, with photos that people send us to review have to do with lighting conditions, shadows and reflections. So, we created an ... http://www.onthegosoft.com/blog/2008/03/online-passport-photo-validator/