XP Pro & Graphic files

[Sue]

Does anyone out there use .pcx files with XP
Professional? I have a new laptop, and it will not let
me open .pcx files by double-clicking them. It tells me
they are not supported. However, when I go to
Microsoft.com, it talks about .pcx files (see below):

"PC Paintbrush pictures, also called Z-Soft bitmaps,
store a single raster image at any color depth.
Paintbrush pictures are more widely used in earlier
Windows programs and MS-DOS-based programs. Paintbrush
pictures are compatible with many later programs. PCX
pictures support Run Length Encoded (RLE) internal
compression."

Can anyone help?

Thank you.
Sue

 

[Dick Kistler]

Does anyone out there use .pcx files with XP
Professional? I have a new laptop, and it will not let
me open .pcx files by double-clicking them. It tells me
they are not supported. However, when I go to
Microsoft.com, it talks about .pcx files (see below):

"PC Paintbrush pictures, also called Z-Soft bitmaps,
store a single raster image at any color depth.
Paintbrush pictures are more widely used in earlier
Windows programs and MS-DOS-based programs. Paintbrush
pictures are compatible with many later programs. PCX
pictures support Run Length Encoded (RLE) internal
compression."

Can anyone help?

Thank you.
Sue

Irfanview: http://www.irfanview.com/ can open and display them.

Gimp: http://www.gimp.org/ can open and edit them.

These are free programs which can deal with pcx files, I'm sure that
commercial programs like Photoshop
can also open them.

Google pcx editors for more options.

Hope this helps.

Dick Kistler

 

[John Myerson]

What's needed is to install a filter for pcx into Office 2003. I hav
the filter in Word 97. Does anyone know how to put it into Offic
2003?
John Myerso