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I bookmarked this site awhile back and came back to check it out this evening. I am very impressed. This is a great, friendly and informative forum (site). I have a question regarding the info bar. The area where you can click and it will show you the "footprint" of your photo. It's late and I'm probably not explaining this very coherently, thus the picture. You see the box that comes up is blacked out, this started a short time ago and I don't know how I screwed it up. [confused] [confused] Any ideas??
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Welcome aboard Scott! :D

[confused] Sorry, but I'm not understanding what your problem is and I can't figure it out from your screenshot. :\

What is it "exactly" that you're clicking to get this "footprint" (as you call it)?
 
;\ ;\ Let me give you some more info :)

I am using Photoshop 7 on Windows ME.

Adobe Photoshop Help describes it: "To display file info in the document window, click the triangle in the bottom border of the application window or document window (MAC OS)."
When you left-click and hold on the bottom border to the left of the triangle (where the above mentioned info shows up) it shows you how much space your image will take up on a sheet when you print it (My hypothesis).

This diagram is what is blacked-out. 8[ 8[ 8[

Not that I use it that often, but knowing that I did something to screw it up has me curious.

Any ideas anyone???
 
Welcome Scott, nope I couldn't get it to black out either [confused]
I can only suggest that you do what Vee suggested and reinstall ps some how perhaps it got corrupted?
how it should look is in the image below........
sfm
 
That's what I thought also, so I did reinstall. Still doing it. It is about time for my semi-annual, reformat the hard drive, which usually cleans up the little quirks my system gets.

Thank you for your responses, and I look forward to becoming part of the family. :righton:
 
when you get it all up and running cleanly make sure you backup your prefrence file just incase something happens again...... also make your own workspace just incase something cookey happens he he he
sfm
 
Welcome, Scott!

As for your problem, I'm on a Mac, so I dunno. Try holding down the Alt key when you click and see what happens, just for the heck of it.
 
[confused] Thanks for the explanation, Scott! I didn't even know that this feature existed! ;\

Sue, the box that Scott refers to can be seen by clicking immediately in the space to the left of the information arrow on the bottom bar itself. As soon as you release your mouse button, it disappears. I assume that it's some way of getting a "visual" take on a printout, based on the paper size that your printer is set to... ;)
 
;) Gotcha Vee!

It's funny, 'cause I never knew about this particular feature 'cause I always go to File->Print with Preview :\
 
cool I didn't know we had that either :D
but as you can see mine works perfectly.......
sfm
 
That's how it should look. But blacked-out [confused] ?

Wendy, the print preview is fine too. But with the page setup, it gives a quick idea of the image in relation to any print page size.

vee
 
Sweet, I never knew of this feature. It will really be a big help when printing.

Sanby
 
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