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I'm looking for a (preferably free as in beer) photo editing package that will allow me to rotate an image by "drawing" a line on the photo that corresponds to the horizontal or vertical. Specifically, I've seen this functionality in Nero PhotoSnap, which was part of Nero version 6. Example use: I take photo, but the camera is not straight, so the image is not straight. With PhotoSnap I could use the mouse to "draw" a line on the picture corresponding to what should have been horizontal or vertical, eg the horizon (horizontal) or a lamppost (vertical). PhotoSnap would then rotate the picture so that the line that I drew was horizontal or vertical (which ever was closest) - and then the line would disappear, it only being used to mark the horizontal or vertical. This makes it very easy to straighten a photo, because most times when I straighten a photo I do it by checking for a horizontal or vertical reference line. I've looked at a few other photo editing programs, but I've not seen this functionality elsewhere. Some packages allow me to enter an arbitrary angle to rotate the photo, but I still have to "guess" the correct angle (eg by trial and error) - or in some cases judge by eye whether a feature in the picture is horizontal or vertical while rotating the image with the mouse - whereas PhotoSnap allowed me to simply mark where the horizontal or vertical should be. I can't believe that nobody else thought this was a really useful feature! Does anyone know of any other photo editor that can do this? Mitch Ames (talk) 12:56, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
What is the easiest, simplest way to connect two laptops to one another. Does it matter that one runs Windows 7, and the other XP. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.112.115.165 (talk) 14:53, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
I tried to help a colleague at work this week, he had been given the task of fixing the configuration of an installation of one of our software products. This particular product is a C#-based Windows executable, which reads configuration from an XML file and starts up WCF services. The configuration file looked something like this:
<services> <!-- <service name="this"/> <service name="that"/> --> </services>
I saw that the service "this" that should have been running wasn't even started, because its entry was commented out. I advised my colleague to take that line out of comments, so he wrote instead:
<services> <service name="this"/> <!-- <service name="that"/> --> </services>
Then the program tried to start the service "this", but it failed because of database connection problems. My colleague decided to put the first line back into comments, but then he said that the program wasn't even starting up. The problem was that he had now written:
<services> <!-- <service name="this"/> <!-- <service name="that"/> --> </services>
Which is invalid XML, because now both service lines are part of one and the same comment, and there is --
inside the comment, which XML doesn't allow. But my question is, why doesn't XML allow this? JIP | Talk 18:57, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
<!
and trailing >, comment beginnings and endings are actually just the --
, and as such you cannot use --
"inside" a comment, as the second instance attempts to end the comment (and a third would attempt to start another comment). [See also: XML#Comments. And yes, this is silly, but then so is using XML, usually.] ¦ Reisio (talk) 19:35, 1 July 2012 (UTC)