razzbery
Wed Apr 23 06:59:40 PDT 2008
Don Phillipson wrote:
>> I put my photo's in either documents
>> or pictures and try to open them with the paint program and it says this...
>> paint can not read this file. it is not a valid bitman file or it's format is
>> not currently supported. I do not know how to fix ...
>
>Each application can open files only of registered types,
>e.g. MSPaint can open JPG, BMP, TIF and so on.
>
>If you embed a picture (say JPG) in a DOC file, the filename
>becomes DOC (or WPD, PDF, etc.) i.e. the document can be
>opened only by those apps that can read DOC, WPD, PDF etc.
>(But major word processors e.g. WORD can disassemble such
>files, i.e. have a picture editing module built in.)
>
>For theory, do / Start / Help / FILE EXTENSIONS / Associating with Programs.
>For convenience, your PC should be set so that filetypes (extensions) are
>visible:
>see / Start / Help / FILE EXTENSIONS / Hiding, showing.
>
>If this does not get you of the woods, repost here with details,
>e.g. (1) what app you are trying to use on (2) what filetype.
>
ok Don, thanks I will try that, will return with the outcome.
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