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wallycolorado
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Re: Thumbnail view wmf
Just to add another voice to the list so that maybe instead of just fixing
holes in Vista, Microsoft can fix oversights. I've found that wmf and emf
files produce equally empty thumbnails in windows explorer. Some of us have
spent many years collecting a large library of clip art from various
programs, including those from Microsoft. It seems at best to be an
oversight and at worst a lousy coscious decision to not even support
thumbnails of previous Microsoft clipart files. It is, however, fixable, and
would make a delightful fix to add to the upcoming service pack, which sounds
like a pretty boring "update."
"Fraser" wrote:
> I have the same problem as JayC. In XP, I saw thumbnails of metafiles. With
> Vista Premium, I see only the crayon icons of vector images. I don't think we
> should have to download any additional program to see thumbnails, since the
> process worked in XP. Is Microsoft listening to these concerns, or is there a
> place (I don't get on here at all) I can send a comment that MS will see?
>
> "JayC" wrote:
>
> > Well, XP created thumbnail view and yes there are independent free
> > downloadable programs like XnView I think which will create thumbnails. I
> > can use it to drag and drop into word but it will not drag and drop into
> > Excell as the XP explorer would when you used insert from file. I think this
> > problem is a little like a car company can't quite fix their tire jack
> > problem so they don't sell the car with a tire jack and expect you to go to a
> > car shop and find the jack off the shelf even though the car company
> > invented the car jack in the first place. At least they could tell you which
> > extensions are not supported and some options on what you could do.
> > --
> > not afraid to ask dumb questions
> >
> >
> > "Adam Albright" wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 14:56:00 -0700, BeezLeaz
> > > <BeezLeaz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > >I have the same problem. It's so silly because wmf is a microsoft clipart
> > > >format so why did they disable the thumbnails for those??
> > >
> > > If I remember right WMF files are vector based, so there really is no
> > > image from which to make a thumbnail from. A vector based image is
> > > nothing more than a mathematical set of instructions to remake some
> > > image, similar to MIDI files are on the audio side don't contain any
> > > waveforms.
> > >
> > > You can of course convert these EMF (Enhanced Meta File) files to a
> > > raster based graphic file that should generate a thumbnail.
> > >
> > > Try this one: http://www.reasoft.com/rea-emf-change-jpg.shtml
> > >
> > >
Just to add another voice to the list so that maybe instead of just fixing
holes in Vista, Microsoft can fix oversights. I've found that wmf and emf
files produce equally empty thumbnails in windows explorer. Some of us have
spent many years collecting a large library of clip art from various
programs, including those from Microsoft. It seems at best to be an
oversight and at worst a lousy coscious decision to not even support
thumbnails of previous Microsoft clipart files. It is, however, fixable, and
would make a delightful fix to add to the upcoming service pack, which sounds
like a pretty boring "update."
"Fraser" wrote:
> I have the same problem as JayC. In XP, I saw thumbnails of metafiles. With
> Vista Premium, I see only the crayon icons of vector images. I don't think we
> should have to download any additional program to see thumbnails, since the
> process worked in XP. Is Microsoft listening to these concerns, or is there a
> place (I don't get on here at all) I can send a comment that MS will see?
>
> "JayC" wrote:
>
> > Well, XP created thumbnail view and yes there are independent free
> > downloadable programs like XnView I think which will create thumbnails. I
> > can use it to drag and drop into word but it will not drag and drop into
> > Excell as the XP explorer would when you used insert from file. I think this
> > problem is a little like a car company can't quite fix their tire jack
> > problem so they don't sell the car with a tire jack and expect you to go to a
> > car shop and find the jack off the shelf even though the car company
> > invented the car jack in the first place. At least they could tell you which
> > extensions are not supported and some options on what you could do.
> > --
> > not afraid to ask dumb questions
> >
> >
> > "Adam Albright" wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 14:56:00 -0700, BeezLeaz
> > > <BeezLeaz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > >I have the same problem. It's so silly because wmf is a microsoft clipart
> > > >format so why did they disable the thumbnails for those??
> > >
> > > If I remember right WMF files are vector based, so there really is no
> > > image from which to make a thumbnail from. A vector based image is
> > > nothing more than a mathematical set of instructions to remake some
> > > image, similar to MIDI files are on the audio side don't contain any
> > > waveforms.
> > >
> > > You can of course convert these EMF (Enhanced Meta File) files to a
> > > raster based graphic file that should generate a thumbnail.
> > >
> > > Try this one: http://www.reasoft.com/rea-emf-change-jpg.shtml
> > >
> > >