tif or tiff images

If you install QuickTime on your machine, it will view most of the image/video file formats that Windows doesn't handle.

How do I get my .tif files to open in ms picture and fax viewer? Now they open in paint.

Thanks,

OP

It isn't a program as such. It is a dynamic link library file, shimgvw.dll, part of Windows XP. You can't make a short cut to it or open it by itself, only by using it to view a picture. Once opened, you can drag and drop other pictures into it, or for pictures in the same folder click the back and forward buttons to view the picture files in that folder (doesn't have to be in a My pictures folder).

Personally, I have Office Pro XP and use the MS Office Document Imaging program for tiff and tif files, which is part of Office Tools. That is a 'proper' application that you can open by itself like any office program. I find it more convenient because it has a layout a bit like Adobe Reader, with the pages shown as thumbnails in a left column, so for multipage .tif files and faxes it is easier to select any page.

Thanks for all your suggestions, but I already had Quick Time, Fax Viewer, three photo programs, etc., etc., on my computer.  othing opened the tif image on the web.  I didn't even have the option to indicate which program to use to open it.  I even changed folder settings, and that didn't work either.  What fun!  But during a search on the web, I found a statement that Windows XP did not include kodakimg.exe, so I found that and downloaded it, and I'm fixed.

Rita

For information, there is also a tif viewer plugin (free) at

http://www.alternatiff.com/

Message Edited by JRosenfeld on 01-06-2004 05:05 PM