MDI and headaches.

[mdiguy2007]

Hi there, I have a multiple page document I've generated using the
option to print to file, the format it prints to is MDI by default.
Unfortunately the person I am attempting to send this to has Office
2000/Windows 98, and therefore is unable to open the file.

When I attempt to print the file to tif(f), only the second page is
ever displayed. For whatever reason, I can not get this tif(f) file to
open in common graphics editing programs as anything more than a single
page document.

This is a terrible headache, and I'm trying to do my best to remedy it
but I am at a loss.

Is it possible to convert an mdi to pdf? Is there any specific reason
that the tif file doesn't encode properly? It will not even open in
adobe photoshop cs2, it only prompts me for a new document. I have
attempted to rename the file to jpeg as a workaround as well, but this
doesn't work either.

The operating system I'm using is windows pro xp sp 2 with office xp.
Thanks in advance.

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

Assuming your multiple page document was created in Word 2007, you can
click on Office Button | Save As, save the file as a Word 97-2003 .doc
file, and email that to your recipient.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi MDI guy,


There is a registry change that can affect the way TIFFs from MS Office Document Imaging can be opened in other graphic viewers,
presumably by making a change in the save process, rather than the way they're viewed, and it was mainly for MS Office 2003 Document
Imaging. I don't have a machine available to test on that has Office XP Document Imaging .

Note that multipage TIFF files will usually be much larger than their MDI equivalents (especially since MS removed the JPEG
compression choice to make things 'easier' for Windows XP GDI+ graphics processor <g>) and if you are to send in email check that
your email app is chopping up the email into smaller chunks to be reassembled at the other end.

The registry change from Start=>Run=>RegEdit

Work your way down in the HKEY_Local_Machine tree to
HKEY_Local_Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MRXSmb\Parameters

In the Parameters area, right click on Parameters and create a New DWORD, named OpLocksDisabled, then set the value to 1.

Then, from MS Office Document Imaging open your .MDI file and choose the File=>Save As item and save as a TIFF file.

Alternatively, to create a PDF from MS Office Document imaging you'll need a PDF printer installed. If you don't have one listed in
File=>Print in MS Office Document Imaging there are a number of free ones avaialable including CutePDF Writer product from
http://cutepdf.com

If you want to include each page of the TIFF as a picture in a Word document you can open the TIFF file in a graphics program such
as http://irfanview.com (after the registry change) and there use
View=>Multipage Images=>Extract All Pages

These can be inserted into a Word document (Insert=>Picture) or emailed individually. MS Office Word documents can only show a
single page of a multipage TIFF or MDI (TIFF derivative) or PDF inserted in a Word document.

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Hi there, I have a multiple page document I've generated using the
option to print to file, the format it prints to is MDI by default.
Unfortunately the person I am attempting to send this to has Office
2000/Windows 98, and therefore is unable to open the file.

When I attempt to print the file to tif(f), only the second page is
ever displayed. For whatever reason, I can not get this tif(f) file to
open in common graphics editing programs as anything more than a single
page document.

This is a terrible headache, and I'm trying to do my best to remedy it
but I am at a loss.

Is it possible to convert an mdi to pdf? Is there any specific reason
that the tif file doesn't encode properly? It will not even open in
adobe photoshop cs2, it only prompts me for a new document. I have
attempted to rename the file to jpeg as a workaround as well, but this
doesn't work either.

The operating system I'm using is windows pro xp sp 2 with office xp.
Thanks in advance.


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mdiguy2007 >>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[mdiguy2007]

Hi MDI guy,


There is a registry change that can affect the way TIFFs from MS Office
Document Imaging can be opened in other graphic viewers,
presumably by making a change in the save process, rather than the way
they're viewed, and it was mainly for MS Office 2003 Document
Imaging. I don't have a machine available to test on that has Office
XP Document Imaging .

Note that multipage TIFF files will usually be much larger than their
MDI equivalents (especially since MS removed the JPEG
compression choice to make things 'easier' for Windows XP GDI+ graphics
processor <g>) and if you are to send in email check that
your email app is chopping up the email into smaller chunks to be
reassembled at the other end.

The registry change from Start=>Run=>RegEdit

Work your way down in the HKEY_Local_Machine tree to
HKEY_Local_Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MRXSmb\Parameters

In the Parameters area, right click on Parameters and create a New
DWORD, named OpLocksDisabled, then set the value to 1.

Then, from MS Office Document Imaging open your .MDI file and choose
the File=>Save As item and save as a TIFF file.

Alternatively, to create a PDF from MS Office Document imaging you'll
need a PDF printer installed. If you don't have one listed in
File=>Print in MS Office Document Imaging there are a number of free
ones avaialable including CutePDF Writer product from
http://cutepdf.com

If you want to include each page of the TIFF as a picture in a Word
document you can open the TIFF file in a graphics program such
as http://irfanview.com (after the registry change) and there use
View=>Multipage Images=>Extract All Pages

These can be inserted into a Word document (Insert=>Picture) or emailed
individually. MS Office Word documents can only show a
single page of a multipage TIFF or MDI (TIFF derivative) or PDF
inserted in a Word document.

=============

Hi there, I have a multiple page document I've generated using the
option to print to file, the format it prints to is MDI by default.
Unfortunately the person I am attempting to send this to has Office
2000/Windows 98, and therefore is unable to open the file.

When I attempt to print the file to tif(f), only the second page is
ever displayed. For whatever reason, I can not get this tif(f) file to
open in common graphics editing programs as anything more than a
single
page document.

This is a terrible headache, and I'm trying to do my best to remedy it
but I am at a loss.

Is it possible to convert an mdi to pdf? Is there any specific reason
that the tif file doesn't encode properly? It will not even open in
adobe photoshop cs2, it only prompts me for a new document. I have
attempted to rename the file to jpeg as a workaround as well, but this
doesn't work either.

The operating system I'm using is windows pro xp sp 2 with office xp.
Thanks in advance.


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mdiguy2007 >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Thank you so much for all your insight, I will give this a try as soon
as I can and get back to you on it. I am thinking cutepdf will be the
proper solution to this problem. Take care.