Printing fax .tif documents

[Vee Dell]

Hi
I am having problems printing the .tif file faxes which arrive via email.
They are either being opened in Picture Gallery or Picture Manager and
insist
on stretching an A4 portrait file to an A4 landscape file and I have tried
everything
to get them to just print a normal A4! In Windows XP they used to be
opened
in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer and there was never a problem.

I have tried opening them in other programmes, but they won't open.

HELP! Desperate!

Thanks
Vee

 

[Vee Dell]

Have found a way around...had to find MS Office Document Imaging
which was hiding in Program Data, and it works.

 

[Guest]

Hi Vee

I've got the same problem. Please advise me how you fixed this.

Thanks

Dane
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Alias]

Hi Vee

I've got the same problem. Please advise me how you fixed this.

Thanks

Dane
(e-mail address removed)

There's no Windows Picture and Fax Viewer or anything comparable in
Vista? Well, that's a step backward.

Alias

 

[Guest]

I have the exact same problem, which is a terrible thing. PLEASE HELP !!

 

[Tom Allen]

The problem I was having :

If you open the TIFF on Windows Photo Gallery, it opens OK and looks
OK. Select FILE-->PRINT and the fax squeezes, switches to landscape
and
no way to fix it.

Select the file and tell it to open with Microsoft Office Picture
Manager (either right from Explorer or from the Windows Photo gallery)
and the picture squeezes / switches to landscape right away.

Until Microsoft recognizes the problem and decides to fix it,
Irfanview
resolves the problem.

For me TIFFs in both Photo Gallery and Picture Manager go to 'Print
Pictures' with the image correctly placed in the frame, both for
orientation and aspect ratio, although the frame itself will rotate in
the display depending on what printer is selected.
Are you saying that the image flips/distorts within the frame ? Have
you got 'fit to frame' selected with an odd shaped paper ?

Tom

 

[Tom Allen]

Hi Tom. I think this blog I found does a better job explaining the
symptoms (and the best solution I think to the problem):

'Technlogy On the Move : receiving Fax on SBS 2003 using Windows Vista
Clients' (http://tinyurl.com/avndot)


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OK thanks, got it I think. As I recollect the old 'Fax and Image
Viewer' ( if that's the right name, I haven't got XP any more ) was
actually an Office component as well.

Tom