In message , R.Wieser
writes:
Paul,

How did your Irfanview tests go ?

With all due respect, but I already mentioned three different programs that
would not accept the images, and one that does. What more proof do you need
?

In other words what should I try IrfanView for ?

Apart from that it's a dedicated image viewer, and opens a LOT quicker -
and with less fuss - than IE, it also can tell you a lot _about_ the
image: colour depth (or greyscale equivalent), number of colours, and
probably other things, which I'm pretty sure IE can't. (AFAICR, IE
_might_ tell you the size in pixels, but that's all. Knowing these sorts
of things might help you work out just what it is that is unusual about
these images. (Other image viewers may do the same, but [a] you've tried
a couple that didn't, [b] IV - IMO and that of several others - is a
good one of its type [and may help with other troublesome images too; I
recently sent someone a .pcx file his viewer couldn't - can IE? - and IV
did].)

If its just about being able to view the images I can simply assign IE to
the involved extensions and be done with it (wouldn't like it though).

No, I would never think of using a browser as my default viewer for any
type of image! It would be a bit like using a DVD player to play CDs; I
don't think I've ever come across a DVD player that _can't_ play CDs,
but ... (-:

If you are hinting at image conversion, I've mentioned that I see such an
action as a last-ditch option (doesn't mean that I'm not already
investigating it. The build-in GdiPlus DLL shows some promiss).

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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