How do I get Windows Picture and Fax Viewer in Windows Vista?
Thank you in advance for your time Unfortunately your post is off topic here, in the TechNet Site Feedback forum, because it is not Feedback about the TechNet Website or Subscription. I think several of the posts deserve points not just the one mentioned above but I'll wait to hear back from the Moderator review of this objection before spending further time... HELPPPP I had to download acdsee so I can view my pictures now but it is a hassle to go back and forth.
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How do I get Windows Picture and Fax Viewer in Windows Vista? - Sep 30, 2012 I recently bought a new computer with Windows 7. Supports Pcx-Dcx Fax Viewer is popular with oil companies because it handles long.
In the office we have always been able to view our scanned documents and print only the individual pages that we selected, using Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. We do this with multiple page tif files. We used to open up the tif files and be able to step through the multiple images and view them. Then we were able to enter the print wizard which displayed large thumbnails of the individual images from the multipage tif, and select the individual images that we wanted to print. Now that Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is not available for Windows 7 Correct me if I'm wrong! The ones I have tried so far do not seem to do what we want, and it could take me forever to try out all the image viewers out there, so I thought I might try to utilise the experience of others. It is very awkward to have to enter page numbers or ranges of page numbers when printing. We really want to be able to view all the pages from a list and select pages as we see the ones we want; not write down a list and then enter that in a print dialogue box. Has anyone used an image viewer preferably free that has funtionality? Thank you I could give the first solution a try - copying the xp files, if I can get my hands on an old xp machine. I have tried Irfanview but I don't know how to use it to do that. If I double click on my multipage tif then it opens up an image and I think I can step through the pages of the tif BUT I don't see how I would select certain pages to print. I think there was an option to view the multipage tif thumbnails. It throws up a little window with them in. However, as a select the pages this is not echoed by the full size image being viewed. Also I don't know how I would select the pages to print while I was going through the images. Have you actually used Irfanview to do What I want? Have you actually used Irfanview to do What I want? I only use irfanview for certain batch operations and photoshop for everything else. I found a pirate bay torrent that has a solution.... Read the instructions inside the zip file. I can't provide a direct link Yes, IrfanView can display thumbnails and can let you print whatever pages you want, but there are two things about it that you may not like: 1 You cannot control the thumbnail size. The window that contains the thumbnails may be resized to whatever size you want, but each thumbnail is a fixed size. You select the pages in the print dialog via page numbers and page ranges, as pointed to by the red arrow in this screenshot: The thumbnail window on the left automatically arranges the thumbnails as you resize it and is an independent window, so it may be dragged anywhere on the screen even outside of the main IrfanView window. Here I resized it to a long vertical window and moved it away from the IrfanView window: If you think this will work for you, you may download it free! Install IrfanView first, then install the PlugIns. Although I recommend adding the PlugIns to get PDF support, that's for general, future usage. For this situation, you don't need it, as IrfanView will handle your TIFF files without the PlugIns. Regards, Joe You're welcome. I hadn't read your initial post to the end, where I just saw this: It is very awkward to have to enter page numbers or ranges of page numbers when printing. We really want to be able to view all the pages from a list and select pages as we see the ones we want; not write down a list and then enter that in a print dialogue box. You made it quite clear that the IrfanView approach is not what you want. I'll give it some more thought, but no free product immediately comes to mind. Regards, Joe Haven't heard back from you on my question about how much money you're willing to spend, but decided to go ahead and tell you about the Multi-Page TIFF Editor, which does exactly what you want: You may select the thumbnails for viewing via the normal Windows technique — Ctrl and Shift keys with the left mouse button. Here's a screenshot showing that I used the Ctrl key to select pages 2, 3, and 6: You may even control the size of the thumbnails: You may also select the pages for printing directly in the print dialog. Here you can see that I selected different pages for printing 2, 4, 5 from what I was viewing 2, 3, 6 : I don't know if your budget will handle it... Regards, Joe Hi nowthenee The last comment in is so true of so many Windows features. Quite often Microsoft make their in-built functions worse with advancing versions of Windows, and in the case in question it is certainly true. When DLLs are Registered using a simple command via regsvr32. It's all very well viewing images in the XP Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. You could probably just drop shimgvw. It's another thing printing the image as you described. With some versions of Microsoft Office installed on an XP computer you will have also have the Microsoft Office Picture Manager. It wouldn't surprise me if the application uses resources from the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. The thing about DLL files is that they have dependencies on resources fould within other DLL files, and call these. If one of these DLL files upon which shimgvw. DLL - the Internet Explorer main program resource and that in turn calls MSHTML. If the versions on the host Windows OS are of a different version and either don't have the resources or they are different, then things will fail. So, you could decide to place just shimgvw. You can try this if you want and just execute a command like this to test and see if the image opens in the self-contained copy of Picture and Fax Viewer on a Win7 computer: rundll32. A search of the registry for the path from which you called shimgvw. Although I can't be certain, when I try this on an XP system it looks like the shimgvw. So I can't test this at the moment without digging out my Win7 laptop. The nearest image editing program that I have used that comes close to matching your needs is XnView. From memory the print dialog has several tabs, and under one you can set it to show thumbnail images of all pages in multi-page images with forward and reverse arrows. There was also an option that allowed you to treat every print action as a separate job. This either allowed you to print one page, arrow to the next and print that, all while keeping the main print dialog open where other programs close it after each or else it used a separate job list manager. I can't remember in depth, and because I normally just print to PDF it could differ for an installed printer. Now that Windows Picture and Fax Viewer is not available for Windows 7 Correct me if I'm wrong! In particular, in terms of the author's requirements, the print dialogs are very different. WPFV's looks like this: It shows the thumbnail of each page of a multi-page TIFF and lets you select the pages to print via a check-mark in the upper right corner of each page — very nice! Sadly, MOPM's print dialog looks like this: No thumbnails for each page and no way to select pages for printing. Regards, Joe First of all, may I say thank you? There have been some great answers. This is a brilliant thread. Joe That is a great find. I suspect that the multi-page tiff editor may be a bit too pricey for the boss to stomach. If it were the only option, he would pay but there are free options that come quite close. However, it is t very useful to me to be able to offer him a complete solution and be able to say that I have offered him a solution but that he doesn't want to pay for it. I don't know if I have expressed properly what I mean. The free competition is Microsoft Office Document Imaging. It turns out that is pretty close to what we want. It displays all the pages of a multi-page tiff as thumbnails down the left hand side. When you click on them you can view them full size on the right. So the workaround is to select the pages you want and copy them, create a new file and paste those images into it, then print all of them. It's a little bit of a faff but it's free. The other facility it lacks I think is the ability to increase the size of the thumbnails. They are a bit small to distinguish the content of the pages of scanned document. I tried your command. It is the print dialogue that had all the power. I use XN View myself. It is very good software and you can choose from a list of jpg images and print just those, but I couldn't see how to show the contents of a multi-page tiff in a list, from which I could then choose. Anyway, thank you everyone. I'll leave this open for a bit to see of the conversation continues any further but for now I will proceed with the Microsoft Office Document Imaging catchy name and offer the Multi-page Tiff Editor as a pay-for solution. Hi nowthenee sorry for the appellation, but I don't recollect seeing your name here , I tried MODI early on but ran into the same problem as you — no way to select thumbnails for printing. I didn't think of creating a new file with just the pages for printing... However, here's an article on how to install it in 2010: The same technique may work with Office 2013, but I haven't tried that yet. One other thing — MODI is based on technology from previously called ScanSoft. So another non-free idea is Nuance's. But this seems like vast overkill for what you're trying to do — PaperPort is a robust imaging solution with a boatload of features. Even so, it still doesn't have page selection via thumbnails in the print dialog. Here's a screenshot of a multi-page TIFF with some thumbnails selected, and the red arrow pointing to the context menu: You would still need to use the Copy Selection technique as you're contemplating with MODI to create the subset of pages for printing. Scanners offer unique abilities that are based on the software inbuilt into the scanner type. You were using an imager viewer with scanning and scanview ability inbuilt For example my scanner Canon has an inbuilt Canon utilities Which imports all the images from selected folders, I then put a tick on each image I want and print that out take a look at VueScan Version 9. Updated October 14, 2013. Thank you kind Sir. Just one of my favourite pastimes, tinkering under the hood, and I like sharing with those who are interested. My memory was a little off in this respect though, and I have tried it again using the portable XnView v1. Although you can't select or deselect thumbnails showing all at one time in a single pane and print only those in one go, the two tick boxes shown here do as follows: 1. Makes all the pages of a multi-page TIF available and shows them as scrollable thumbnails 2. Keeps the dialog open until the print job is finished. I haven't had a physical printer for a while now, and my default is PDFCreator. The spooled print jobs I recall were actually the PDFCreator dialog showing, and not that of XnView. I kept those two boxes ticked and changed the printer to XPS Document Writer which just prompts to save and converts. This creates separate Save As boxes for each of the pages in the TIF file, and cancelling one just moves onto the next. The actual print dialog disappears and you only see the Save As windows until all pages of the TIF are sent. Clearly it isn't as useful as I remembered, because you would first have to scroll through each of the thumbnails, remember the page number of the ones to print, then ignore and cancel the ones in between when prompted. Additionally, I haven't tested this with an actual printer. So another non-free idea is Nuance's PaperPort. PaperPort probably ScanSoft before that was very capable, but it was two weeks of drudgery with a little runty orangutan of an office manager on my back every minute ;- All Merete mentioned the software that commonly comes with printers. One name that I was very impressed by was the IRIS software suite OCR and doc management. If considering a paid-for solution you might want to bear the in mind. Merete's suggestion of Canon Easy Photo Print jogged my memory of the Epson Multi Photo Print and NikonView software that came with my old printer and Coolpix camera respectively. As well as handling the aquisition from USB camera in a similar way to the Windows XP Scanner and Camera Import Wizard, the old NikonView and Epson software allowed me to later browse folders, tick thumbnails, and apply various actions to them such as copy to, delete, and print. Whether or not they showed the separate pages of a Multi-page TIF is something I can't remember, but it's a valid suggestion and something that you may just have available. Installing the same software on multiple workstations in a corporate environment would be an issue though. It's a real pity that the Win7 versions of these files have exactly the same names, or else I MAY have been able to drop them into the System32 or SysWOW64 folders and get them to run independently of the Windows Picture Viewer as a standalone program by adding a few new registry keys and values. As it is, using them would probably mean de-registering them to cripple the Win7 functionality, then disabling file protection and renaming them as backups, dropping the WinXP ones into the same folder and registering them. For all I like tinkering, I wasn't prepared to mess with the computer to that extent. The OP's question was: Has anyone used an image viewer preferably free that has funtionality? This is a brilliant thread. I think several of the posts deserve points not just the one mentioned above but I'll wait to hear back from the Moderator review of this objection before spending further time... Regards, Joe Hi Bill, That is awesome post 2! PaperPort was from the ScanSoft folks before it was Nuance and from Visioneer before ScanSoft, and Xerox before that, and Kurzweil at the beginning. Your ideas for getting and to work on W7 sound good, but although a fellow tinkerer I agree with you about not messing around to that extent. I've heard of too many failed Restore points to risk it on that. I'd feel comfortable with a Casper clone, but there are only so many hours in a day. The question was answered. Comment provides a tested alternative software that fulfills the criteria. Assisted solutions: BillDL Explains why simply replacing shimgvw. The print function is hard-coded and will still use the new and worse Win7 photowiz. Thanks Bill, Your links open to a new page Hope you agree it's better staying on the same page especially when so much great information is provided. Hi Eirman, That is a great community question! Thanks for posting the link to it. I've had numerous exchanges with Moderators during abandoned questions where many of the same issues were discussed. It's really a shame when a thread with terrific comments by certified experts gets deleted, especially since one EE admin told me that EE members find solutions to their problems by searching not by asking a new question 80% of the time! Since you are clearly interested in improving the operation of EE, please take a look at this community question that I posted at around the same time as yours: Netminder provided thoughtful comments to both of our questions. Thanks again to Netminder for participating in these valuable discussions to improve EE. Regards, Joe Yours was a useful question too joewinograd. Regurgitating old questions in a new context might sometimes cause a re-think. EE has undergone a major revamp since our questions. My dismissed suggestion of modifying the A question you participated in will be deleted notification, so you could check out questions that you really did participate in, would help solve this type of situation. I wonder if Netminder is monitoring this question now that it is effectively closed.
May 31, 2012 if i replace the shimgvw. But if you select the pictures you want to print under explorer and the print by right clicking on them you have what you want. We do this with multiple page tif files. Before I know it I have 20 photo viewers open. I would like to open the folder and see the thumbprints immediately. System Restore will solve your problem if it is recent. My dismissed suggestion of modifying the A question you participated in will be deleted notification, so you could check out questions that you really did participate in, would help solve this type of situation. So another non-free idea is Nuance's PaperPort.