Picture & fax viewer - print wizard

[Kent Mitchell]

From: "Kent Mitchell" <[email protected]>
Subject: Picture and fax viewer
Date: Monday, September 27, 2004 2:56 PM

We use the built-in Picture and Fax Viewer to preview and print .tif files
from a network directory containing a few thousand images. It works fine on
multi-page images. The Photo Printing Wizard appears immediately and only
the selected file is previewed for printing. When opening a single-page
image, however, it seems that every file in the directory is scanned (this
takes a while) before the wizard appears. Then it tries to preview every
file in the directory instead of just the selected file. Is there a way to
make it treat single-page files like multi-page files without playing tricks
like scanning a blank page, etc.?

Thanks

 

[John Inzer]

From: "Kent Mitchell" <[email protected]>
Subject: Picture and fax viewer
Date: Monday, September 27, 2004 2:56 PM

We use the built-in Picture and Fax Viewer to preview and
print .tif files from a network directory containing a
few thousand images. It works fine on multi-page images.
The Photo Printing Wizard appears immediately and only
the selected file is previewed for printing. When
opening a single-page image, however, it seems that every
file in the directory is scanned (this takes a while)
before the wizard appears. Then it tries to preview
every file in the directory instead of just the selected
file. Is there a way to make it treat single-page files
like multi-page files without playing tricks like
scanning a blank page, etc.?
Thanks

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Here's a possibility...

First...open an image folder and go to...
View / Filmstrip...

Now...right click the full sized view of a
selected image and from the menu choose...
Print...the Print Wizard will not scan the
whole folder.

Or....

Would it speed things up if you copy/paste
a copy of the image to your desktop or to a
new folder and right click/print from there?

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[Kent Mitchell]

Tried your first suggestion just to see how the system responded. The print
wizard came up quickly, but then had to wait over 2 minutes for the hour
glass to disappear. When I clicked next, every file in the folder was still
displayed.

Manual selection is not a viable option. The desired image file name is not
readily available and it takes far too long to search for it manually.
Besides that, the file might not even exist. An Access database locates the
correct file (if it exists) based on fields in a particular record of
interest and creates a hyperlink on the form. The user may then open the
image with a mouse click using the default program for that file type, in
this case Picture & Fax Viewer. Before installing XPsp2 all this worked
great. I wish I knew how to make it work again.

I did find that Microsoft Document Imaging (part of Office) works okay. I
guess we will have to get by using it until the viewer problem is solved.

Thanks for your help. Please let me know you or anyone else has another
idea.

Kent

 

[John Inzer]

Tried your first suggestion just to see how the system
responded. The print wizard came up quickly, but then
had to wait over 2 minutes for the hour glass to
disappear. When I clicked next, every file in the folder
was still displayed.

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Sorry..but I guess I didn't explain well enough.
Try this one more time...it does work.

First...open an image folder and go to...
View / Filmstrip...

I don't mean for you to open an image in the
Windows Picture and Fax Viewer...I simply
mean to select an image from the filmstrip
and have it display above the filmstrip. You
will see the selected image and the filmstrip
on your screen. Then right click / print from
the image that is displayed above the filmstrip.

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[Kent Mitchell]

Yeah it works, but it doesn't help. We would still have to use the database
to look up the image file, then search for the file in the image folder (it
takes about 2 minutes just to display the folder's contents on the filmstrip
which no one wants to see anyway), and then 40 more seconds to generate a
preview of a 90kB file. Wonder how long a 3MB preview would take? Sorry if
I sound rather curt, but all this used to take about 3 seconds.

The root problem is that something has changed so that now Picture & Fax
Viewer takes an excessively long time to open and print single-page .tif
files (multi-page files work fine). We can use Document Imaging to view the
files, but we also used P&F viewer to make notes on the original images if
something changed after scanning. I would like to know what changed and how
to fix it or at least how to get things working like before. Thanks again.

 

[John Inzer]

Yeah it works, but it doesn't help. We would still have
to use the database to look up the image file, then
search for the file in the image folder (it takes about 2
minutes just to display the folder's contents on the
filmstrip which no one wants to see anyway), and then 40
more seconds to generate a preview of a 90kB file. Wonder how long a 3MB
preview would take? Sorry if I
sound rather curt, but all this used to take about 3
seconds.
The root problem is that something has changed so that
now Picture & Fax Viewer takes an excessively long time
to open and print single-page .tif files (multi-page
files work fine). We can use Document Imaging to view
the files, but we also used P&F viewer to make notes on
the original images if something changed after scanning. I would like to
know what changed and how to fix it or at
least how to get things working like before. Thanks
again.

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That's the best I can do, maybe I don't
understand the question.

Maybe you could contact Microsoft Support
and get a better answer.

Microsoft Help And Support
http://support.microsoft.com/

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John Inzer
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[Kent Mitchell]

Hey, thanks for trying. The simplest way I can sum up the problem is that
the viewer handles multi-page .tifs just fine, but chokes on single-page
..tifs.