Viewing TIF files in Vista Home Premium

[Guest]

What is the Vista equivalent of XP's Microsoft Office Document Imaging? I
would like to be able to view tif files when using my notebook running Vista
Home Premium. I have downloaded Irfanview, but the quality of viewing is
less than what I'm used to with MODI.

 

[Guest]

Windows Photo Gallery

 

[Andrew McLaren]

What is the Vista equivalent of XP's Microsoft Office Document Imaging? I
would like to be able to view tif files when using my notebook running
Vista
Home Premium. I have downloaded Irfanview, but the quality of viewing is
less than what I'm used to with MODI.

Microsoft Office Document Imaging is a feature of Office. It is not part of
the XP or Vista operating system. If you have Office 2003 or 2007 installed
on your Vista machine, you can go into Office Setup and select to install
MODI. It is not installed by default, you need to explicitly select it.

On Vista you can also view TIF files using Vista's Windows Photo Gallery
feature, as PaulB correctly suggested. Photo Gallery is part of Vista (and
installed by default)

Hope it helps,

 

[Guest]

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. I'll see if I'm able to install MODI on the notebook. Thanks for
your input.

 

[Andrew McLaren]

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,

 

[byron]

Windows photo gallery will only view the TIF file if I save it first. If I
download the attachment I get a msg box with 3 options: find, save, and
cancel.

If I click 'find', Windows Gallery is not one of the options. So I have to
save the document, then open it, which then automatically opens with Windows
Gallery.

What do I need to do so that when I download the attachment the system will:
-automatically open with windows gallery
-provide a menu box with software choices to use to open the file

 

[vjmcd95]

Exactly, HOW do you go about installing MODI in Office Pro 2007? I've tried
the chnage process from Control Panel and it's still not installed. How do I
run Setup?

 

[nooraida]

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,