Posted March 4, 201014 yr "Andrew McLaren" wrote: > "Scov" wrote ... > > Photo Gallery won't open the tif file in question. PG reports the file to > > be > > corrupted, which it is not. I can view the file using Irfanview (poor > > quality) on my vista machine or using MODI (good quality) on my XP > > desktop. > > I can also see the file as an e-mail attachment when using the right-click > > preview feature of Microsoft Outlook on the Vista notebook. Other > > applications such as Paint and Picaso only see the first page of the > > 6-page > > tif file. > > Strange ... I can certainly open TIF files - from multiple sources (faxes, > scans) - using Photo Gallery Viewer on my machine. > > I guess it could be a bug in WPG - but the fact IrfanView renders the file > poorly, and Paint and Picasso only see the first page, sugest there is > something unusual about the TIF file data itself. What was the source of the > TIF file, how was it created? > > In any case I think installing MODI from Office would be your best bet. At > first, I dismissed MODI as more bloatware junk from Microsoft but after > time, I ended up using it as my main scanning and TIF-viewing application > (still using Abbyy FineReader, for OCR). A surprisingly useful utility! > > Good luck with it, > -- > Andrew McLaren > amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au > >
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