Application: Photofiltre
Category: Graphics & Pictures
Description: PhotoFiltre is a complete image editing and effects package. It comes with many features that rival some commercial packages, as well as additional add-ons that can be downloaded from the web site.
Download Photofiltre Portable 6.5.2 Development Test 1 [1.94 MB download / 3.8 MB installed]
(MD5: 4c4b125d4d65de7f1417ca21dd7c4dfc)
Permission: Permission has been received from the Photofiltre developer to make this portable build; he's even expressed an interest in testing the PAF build himself.
Hi,
why no
can i test it ?
Thanks for the permission, Selon!
Note: this is the freeware version of Photofiltre, not the commercial version.
Release Notes:
Version 6.5.2, Development Test 1 (2011-02-03):
Improvement: Photofiltre is now bundled with Photofiltre Portable instead of being an online installer (thanks to Selon for permission!)
Improvement: Updated to the latest version of Photofiltre
Improvement: Updated to the latest version of the PortableApps.com Launcher
Improvement: Updated to the latest version of the PortableApps.com Installer
Changed: settings are now saved to Data\Photofiltre.ini instead of Data\settings\Photofiltre.ini. If you wish to keep your settings from older versions of Photofiltre Portable, you will need to manually move this file after updating your copy of Photofiltre Portable.
Version 6.4, Development Test 4 (2010-06-05):
Improvement: Updated to the latest version of the PortableApps.com Launcher
Improvement: Updated to the latest version of the PortableApps.com Installer
Improvement: Updated to the latest version of the PortableApps.com Format
Version 6.4, Development Test 3 (2010-04-08):
Updated to the latest version of the PortableApps.com Launcher
Version 6.4, Development Test 2 (2010-01-29):
Bug fix: help.html and a few other files included references to TopOCR, since I used the TopOCR launcher as a template
Version 6.4, Development Test 1 (2010-01-29):
Initial release
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yep, sorry about that. Dropbox itself is down:
Hopefully they'll be up again soon.
"The question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-two, which is a little aggravating."
Dropbox seems to be back up, so you should have no problems downloading now. Sorry for the inconvenience!
"The question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-two, which is a little aggravating."
Updated 2010-01-29, see above for details
"The question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-two, which is a little aggravating."
Used this on XP SP3 with admin rights. Worked without issue.
Suggest making the default open file folder X:\Documents\Pictures as does XnView Portable.
With permission of the Photofiltre developer you don't need to do this as an online installer. You may want to get more specific clarification from Selon to be safe then you can include the files with the launcher:)
Regshot Results:
PortableApps.com Advocate
Thanks for taking the Regshot! That's very much appreciated.
I'll talk to the Photofiltre developer some more and see if I can bundle the files; that would make life much easier. If he says yes, getting permission to set the default Open folder should be pretty darn easy.
I'll keep you guys updated as I find out more.
Cheers!
"The question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-two, which is a little aggravating."
Updated, 2010-04-08. See above for details.
"The question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-two, which is a little aggravating."
Updated, 2010-06-05; see above for details.
"The question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-two, which is a little aggravating."
Updated, 2011-02-03; see above for details.
"The question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-two, which is a little aggravating."
Updated, 2011-02-04; see above for details.
"The question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-two, which is a little aggravating."
Updated to version 6.5.2 on 2011-02-03; see above for details.
"The question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-two, which is a little aggravating."
Nice to see you back again.
I'll test this as soon as I have time again.
I tested the latest update on XP SP3, and everything works fine, but one file is left behind when the program closes:
C:\Documents and Settings\USER NAME\Application Data\PhotoFiltre\PhotoFiltre.ini
Good work!
dirk
That's odd. I thought having Photofiltre.ini in App\Photofiltre would avoid creating that file in %APPDATA%, and my tests (also on XP SP3) seemed to confirm that.
Please could you check and see if App\Photofiltre\Photofiltre.ini exists while Photofiltre Portable is running?
Thanks!
"The question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-two, which is a little aggravating."
Found typo in PhotoFiltrePortable.ini:
Is:
Should be:
With that adjustment, it works.
The same time you could change in [FileWrite1]
to
accordingly to repair drive letter changing.
It should work without needing to have Photofiltre.ini in Data\settings. Data should be just fine.
Did you try a clean installation to see if something in your old install was the issue there?
"The question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-two, which is a little aggravating."
Thanks for this hint. That fixed it!
Your previous dev test 6.4.0 had the Photofiltre.ini located in settings and the update preserved that file. So, after the update no new ini was copied from DefaultData to the Data folder and the file handling broke (see above). Maybe you add that hint to your description (delete old installation) because you changed the structure of the Data folder with this release => no update possible.
I can handle that with a bit of custom code in the installer. I'll take care of that as soon as I get a chance.
"The question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-two, which is a little aggravating."
Maybe an entry [FilesToRemove] in installer.ini may do the trick (would scrap user settings though).
A few lines of NSIS would move the settings file from Data\settings to Data on install. I'm just waiting to see if a clean install fixes old_man's problem, since it's pointless to write and push an update if I just end up going back to Data\settings.
"The question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-two, which is a little aggravating."
Maybe I'm misundertanding, but it sounds like you just moved the .ini file in the DefaultData folder and now old settings won't work?
If so, just another line in FilesMove moving it from the old spot to the new spot would work I would think.
EDIT: Oh, nevermind. Now I see the predicament since you wouldn't want it moved back to the old spot (didn't think of that). I have this problem with Marble and I hadn't thought out the solution apparently.
As this is a development test (alpha release) it would just be a correction of a change in design. From now on the data structure stays the same so the custom code would be only for coping with that design decision and become useless thereafter. I for one would add a comment to the release notes to backup/manually move settings if it matters to anyone. It's not that photofiltre's settings are tricky to reconstruct...
On the other hand it would be nice for people who don't update to newer dev tests as older versions might be affected once this may become official some time.
Good point about this just being a dev test. I'll just make a quick change to the release notes and leave custom code alone.
Thanks for the input!
"The question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-two, which is a little aggravating."
I actually tested what I mentioned before and it works as desired. Not really needed as already said, but this is what I'm doing for Marble.
EDIT: Sigh. Nevermind, again. Inevitably the folder gets put where it needs to go, but the app creates new settings since .marble goes to %PAL:DataDir%\settings\.marble during run.
What on earth are you trying to do there? Please don't ever do anything like this!
If you need to reorganise folder structure, this should be done in the installer, not the launcher.
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I checked, and the file Photofiltre.ini in App\Photofiltre is not used - nor changed when I change the settings of the program.
PhotoFiltre makes the ini file in %APPDATA% regardless of any ini file being present in its own directory.
dirk
Problem seems to be solved. I reinstalled the program and corrected the App\AppInfo\Launcher\PhotoFiltrePortable.ini file as suggested above before starting the program. I also compared my new install to the previous one, and I noted that in the previous install - for some reason or another - the file Photofiltre.ini was missing from the Data\settings directory. That must have been the culprit.
Everything working as it should now. I did a couple of regshot tests, and there all OK.
dirk
I'm glad to hear you got it working, but I'm still very puzzled about why Data\settings would work and Data wouldn't. If you try a clean installation without modifying the launcher (App\AppInfo\Launcher\PhotofiltrePortable.ini), does it still work or does it go back to creating a file in %APPDATA%?
"The question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-two, which is a little aggravating."
Yes, it goes back to creating the file in %APPDATA% - and I'm stuck with the same problem as before. Don't ask me why - I'm no expert in this
dirk
What OS are you using? I'm working on a couple of XP machines, but Vista/Seven may not behave the same way XP does.
"The question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-two, which is a little aggravating."
Did you do a fresh installation (deleting the old folder first) or an update over an existing one? That was my fault at first (see above). It behaves different if an older version exists because of a slightly different Data structure.
I tried it again yesterday - and I made certain that no traces were left from the previous times I installed the program. Then I installed it in its original form. This seems to work, with the original settings in the launcher ini file, and with Photfiltre.ini in the Data folder.
A new install, and the modified ini file for the launcher, and Photofiltre.ini in the Data\settings folder seems to work too.
Any other combination of the Photofiltre.ini file and PhotoFiltrePortable.ini (the launcher file) produces and leaves the Photofiltre.ini file in Documents and settings.
I retried both installs twice, and got the same resulte. I made very clear that I used a clean system in all cases, so I'm quite confident of the results. So it now seems to work either way - I must have messed up the first time.
(I'm using XP SP3)
dirk
It looks like your installation just got messed up by the update, then. I'm glad to hear it's behaving as expected now.
Thanks for running those tests!
"The question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-two, which is a little aggravating."