Is there a viewer for enhanced metafiles in Vista?

XP had an excellent "Windows Picture and Fax Viewer" which is either missing
or unrecognizable in Vista.

What do people use?

Thanks.

You may have Vista home, and no fax functionality.
"Ciarán Ó Duibhín" <no.spam@thank.you> wrote in message
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> Is there a viewer for enhanced metafiles in Vista?
>
> XP had an excellent "Windows Picture and Fax Viewer" which is either
> missing or unrecognizable in Vista.
>
> What do people use?
>
> Thanks.
>

Thanks for your help, Chuck.
I have Windows Vista Home Premium SP1. Is that the answer - upgrade to
Vista Business or Vista Ultimate to see enhanced metafiles? Ciarán.

"Chuck" <cdkuder@msn.com> wrote in message
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> You may have Vista home, and no fax functionality.
> "Ciarán Ó Duibhín" <no.spam@thank.you> wrote in message
> news:uW3KJdJuJHA.2376@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Is there a viewer for enhanced metafiles in Vista?
>>
>> XP had an excellent "Windows Picture and Fax Viewer" which is either
>> missing or unrecognizable in Vista.
>>
>> What do people use?
>>
>> Thanks.

There's no need to upgrade. The equivalent of Windows Picture and Fax
Viewer in Vista is Windows Photo Gallery (but it has a lot of other features
too in addition to viewing files).

- Adam

"Ciarán Ó Duibhín" <no.spam@thank.you> wrote in message
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> Thanks for your help, Chuck.
> I have Windows Vista Home Premium SP1. Is that the answer - upgrade to
> Vista Business or Vista Ultimate to see enhanced metafiles? Ciarán.
>
> "Chuck" <cdkuder@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:Oi6TUFnuJHA.248@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> You may have Vista home, and no fax functionality.
>> "Ciarán Ó Duibhín" <no.spam@thank.you> wrote in message
>> news:uW3KJdJuJHA.2376@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>> Is there a viewer for enhanced metafiles in Vista?
>>>
>>> XP had an excellent "Windows Picture and Fax Viewer" which is either
>>> missing or unrecognizable in Vista.
>>>
>>> What do people use?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>

Ciarán Ó Duibhín wrote:
> Thanks for your help, Chuck.
> I have Windows Vista Home Premium SP1. Is that the answer - upgrade
> to Vista Business or Vista Ultimate to see enhanced metafiles? Ciarán.
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Using the freeware IrfanView might be your answer:

IrfanView
http://www.software.com/irfanview
(get the plug-ins too)
http://www.software.com/irfanview-plugin

--


John Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

Thanks for all suggestions.

I have encountered Windows Photo Gallery, but how do you open a file in it?
All I can see is "add a folder to a gallery", but I don't want to undertake
a file management odyssey, I just want to view an image and close it and
leave it as it was. If I go to my file in Vista and use "open with... WPG",
I get WPG opened but no sign of my image. That's not equivalent to Picture
and Fax Viewer in XP; it displayed the image as expected..

IrfanView, yes I'm a long-time user of this. When I tried to use it to view
emfs long ago, it used to convert them to bitmaps at a particular
resolution, and then it used to resize this bitmap, so it failed to take
advantage of the unlimited resolution of emfs. Then I went off and happily
used XP's Picture and Fax Viewer, which has now been taken from us, and we
have WPG instead. So I'm very pleased to find that IrfanView has meanwhile
rectified its problem, and now appears to recreate the display from the
vector representation every time the display size is changed. It will do
for me.

Thank you.