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Thanks for testing those, David! I'll take a look at IrfanView.

Andy, I'd be thrilled if you would add that! It would speed things up so much! Thank you!

David, all the batch job does is change the width and height to 20% of their values (hx.2 and wx.2) and then set the DPI (in this case to 120 since the original DPI was 600). I chose Affinity Photo because I'm working with JPGs that are around 50,000 pixels in one dimension or the other. ACDSee can read larger files, but taps out at 16,000 pixels and my old version of Photoshop (CS5) can't do much better. Are there any other solutions out there that can do: Very large JPGs Rotate and straighten Resize based on percentage Batch process the above Light repair work like infill, clone tool Perpetual license Thank you, Chris

When setting up a batch job, the step of adding the source files takes a really long time, maybe close to an hour. Th files I'm working with are a few hundred MB each and I'm adding a couple hundred files at a time. My computer is fairly fast, 32GB memory, SSD, Win 10. Affinity Photo 2.4.0. I think what is happening is that it is reading each file to generate a thumbnail before I click OK. Once I click OK and it starts processing, it takes an expectedly long time to process. Is there a way to skip whatever reading is happening at the time the files are added to the source queue? Chris

Thanks, Lee, but this does not work. When recording a macro, you cannot put formulas in the H&W fields. If you only put the DPI change in the macro and then run a batch for the H&W change with the macro added, you get the results I describe in my original post. John mentions above that macros can be recorded in 1.6. I have 2.4.0. Am I entitled to install 1.6 for the purpose of making macros (without uninstalling 2.4.0)? When will this DPI bug be fixed. It seems to have been know for about 4 years, which is a ridiculously long time for it to have not been addressed, especially for the issue to survive through a fill version release. Chris

I have a couple hundred 600 DPI large files (various sizes) that I want to reduce to 20% of their original size and change to 120 dpi. If I batch process, and set W to W*.2 and height to H*.2, I get the file size I want, but the DPI remains at 600. If I record a macro and that changes the DPI to 120 and check off resample, when applied to other files, they all get the same pixel size as the file I rerecorded the Macro with. How can I reduce the pixel size to 20% and the pixel size to 20% as well? Chris

Thank you! That worked.

Is there a way to automatically expand the canvas when applying the straighten tool in Affinity Photo 2? I'd like to preserve all pixels of the original image. Thank you, Chris