PSP 7 used with *Open With* from _WinXP FAX & Image
Viewer_

I'm having a bit of trouble using WinXP's _FAX and Image Viewer_ in trying 
to use the *Open With* function and directing the image to PSP7.  If I use 
*Send To* everything is OK, but when I use Open With the image evidently is 
sent to PSP's _multiple image utility_.  I messaged the Google WinXP 
newsgroup and they said to try this newsgroup.

Does anyone here have any ideas what's wrong?  I'm not sure what else I 
should give here to help trouble shoot this problem.

Thanks...

Don

Don Nickell wrote:
> 
> I'm having a bit of trouble using WinXP's _FAX and Image Viewer_ in trying
> to use the *Open With* function and directing the image to PSP7.

Where is this "Open With" menu item? Is it inside the Fax and
Image Viewer? Or is it in Windows Explorer? In other words, are
you having trouble starting the Fax and Image Viewer by double
clicking on a file name? Or are you having trouble starting the
PSP image editor from within the Fax and Image Viewer?

> If I use
> *Send To* everything is OK, but when I use Open With the image evidently
is
> sent to PSP's _multiple image utility_.

There is no such thing as a "multiple image utility" in PSP 7.
What really happens? Just describe it exactly without trying
to come up with any interpretation of your own. Are you perhaps
talking about the PSP Browser?

> Does anyone here have any ideas what's wrong?  I'm not sure what else I
> should give here to help trouble shoot this problem.

How about describing exactly what happens and what you see on 
the screen along with the text of any messages that appear?

Spandex Rutabaga wrote:
> Don Nickell wrote:
>> I'm having a bit of trouble using WinXP's _FAX and Image Viewer_ in
trying
>> to use the *Open With* function and directing the image to PSP7.
> 
> Where is this "Open With" menu item? Is it inside the Fax and
> Image Viewer? Or is it in Windows Explorer? In other words, are
> you having trouble starting the Fax and Image Viewer by double
> clicking on a file name? Or are you having trouble starting the
> PSP image editor from within the Fax and Image Viewer?

It is to be found after right clicking within the Image Viewer.  There are 
a dozen choices on my system, including Send To and Open With.


>> If I use
>> *Send To* everything is OK, but when I use Open With the image
evidently is
>> sent to PSP's _multiple image utility_.
> 
> There is no such thing as a "multiple image utility" in PSP 7.
> What really happens? Just describe it exactly without trying
> to come up with any interpretation of your own. Are you perhaps
> talking about the PSP Browser?

The what do you call the utility within PSP7 where you can move several 
images to one screen and position them for later printing?

>> Does anyone here have any ideas what's wrong?  I'm not sure what else
I
>> should give here to help trouble shoot this problem.
> 
> How about describing exactly what happens and what you see on 
> the screen along with the text of any messages that appear?
> 

I did describe exactly what happened, but I'll try again:

I right click on an image in WinXP's _FAX and Image Viewer_ and a menu 
appears, I select Send To and then PSP7 and the image will appear in PSP7;
if I select Open With the PSP7 multiple image utility opens and tells me, 
"This is not a valid layout file."

HTH resolve your questions.
Don

Don Nickell <donnickell@roadrunner.com> wrote in news:46b672e3_2@cnews:

> 
> 
> 
> Spandex Rutabaga wrote:
>> Don Nickell wrote:
>>> I'm having a bit of trouble using WinXP's _FAX and Image Viewer_
in
>>> trying to use the *Open With* function and directing the image to
>>> PSP7. 
>> 
>> Where is this "Open With" menu item? Is it inside the Fax
and
>> Image Viewer? Or is it in Windows Explorer? In other words, are
>> you having trouble starting the Fax and Image Viewer by double
>> clicking on a file name? Or are you having trouble starting the
>> PSP image editor from within the Fax and Image Viewer?
> 
> It is to be found after right clicking within the Image Viewer.  There
> are a dozen choices on my system, including Send To and Open With.
> 
> 
>>> If I use
>>> *Send To* everything is OK, but when I use Open With the image
>>> evidently is sent to PSP's _multiple image utility_.
>> 
>> There is no such thing as a "multiple image utility" in PSP
7.
>> What really happens? Just describe it exactly without trying
>> to come up with any interpretation of your own. Are you perhaps
>> talking about the PSP Browser?
> 
> The what do you call the utility within PSP7 where you can move
> several images to one screen and position them for later printing?

You call it what PSP7 calls it - i.e., the Multiple Image Printing 
window, which is what should be visible to you in the blue title bar.  
This is normally accessed withing PSP7 from the File menu item called 
Print Multple Images.
> 
>> How about describing exactly what happens and what you see on 
>> the screen along with the text of any messages that appear?

> 
> I did describe exactly what happened, but I'll try again:
> 
> I right click on an image in WinXP's _FAX and Image Viewer_ and a menu
> appears, I select Send To and then PSP7 and the image will appear in
> PSP7; if I select Open With the PSP7 multiple image utility opens and
> tells me, "This is not a valid layout file."

You mean it opens the Multiple Image Printing window, which does not 
recognize the file as a layout file.

Do you wish to send the image to PSP7 so that it opens in a regular PSP7 
workspace, or do you wish it to open in the Multiple Image Printing 
window so that you can do a print layout?  If the latter,are concerned 
because this window doesn't recognize the image file as a proper layout 
file?

If the latter, I can only guess but suspect that the Multiple Image 
Printing window has to be opened from within PSP7 to work properly, 
using images within the PSP workspace.  That means that you have to have 
the image(s) open in the PSP7 workspace to start with.

Regards,

JoeB

Don Nickell wrote:
> I'm having a bit of trouble using WinXP's _FAX and Image
> Viewer_ in trying to use the *Open With* function and
> directing the image to PSP7.  If I use *Send To* everything is
> OK, but when I use Open With the image evidently is sent to
> PSP's _multiple image utility_.  I messaged the Google WinXP
> newsgroup and they said to try this newsgroup.
>
> Does anyone here have any ideas what's wrong?  I'm not sure
> what else I should give here to help trouble shoot this
> problem.

Hi Don,

I just tried it here and it worked OK. You did not say what type of 
file you opened, or perhaps we are invoking PSP 7 in different ways. 
Here's what I did:

Open a JPG file in Win P&FV.

Right click the image in Win P&FV, select Open With.

In the Open With Dialog, select Browse and navigate to
C:\Program Files\Jasc Software Inc\Paint Shop Pro 7\PSP.EXE.

The file opens in the PSP 7 workspace just as though I had opened it 
with the PSP 7 File > Open menu.
-- 
Fred Hiltz,  fhiltz at yahoo dot com