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Looking for an XIF viewer/converter - ECSNorway - 01-05-2014
I have a large cache of old files in the early Pagis XIF format. Unfortunately there isn't much that can view or do anything with these right now... there's a viewer that will only work up through WinXP, and the actual main software only works through Windows 2000 or so. If anyone has a copy of the Pagis software that they can provide me, or some other means of converting these into usable files that I can print without needing to load them one at a time in the viewer on a XP virtual machine... I'd appreciate it.
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- Foxboy - 01-05-2014
Nuance supposedly has a proprietary viewer that's kind of pricey. Since they're the current owners of the software rights to the xif format...
oddly enough, a SUSE Linux site recommend using GIMP, and treating it as a TIFF file. It supposedly works on an arbitrary percentage of XIFs.
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- nemonowan - 01-05-2014
On windows you might try Xnview (they claim to support it) , or maybe Irfanview too (some people say it supports it).
- ECSNorway - 01-08-2014
I will try GIMP, thanks.
I'm trying to get away from something I need to run in a VM... (I have only Macs as functional machines right now)
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- nemonowan - 01-08-2014
If Gimp does not work, there also is a viewer meant for win98, which works also on XP. You would have to use an image printer driver to convert to another format, though
- ECSNorway - 01-09-2014
Quote:nemonowan wrote:That's what I'm using now. And since I have, oh, a few hundred of these files, I'd like to get something that can batch-convert them into something more useful, like png.
If Gimp does not work, there also is a viewer meant for win98, which works also on XP. You would have to use an image printer driver to convert to another format, though
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