Microsoft Image Composer (.mic) images

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Microsoft Image Composer (.mic) images

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The docs say that XnView can read (not write) the "Microsoft Image Composer"-format .mic
I have a couple of old images that came with an ancient Frontpage version. When I browse them in XnView I have several problems:

a) they are filtered when "View > Filter by" is set to "Images" so they are not recognized as images

b) I can only see the thumb while the preview shows some binary code

c) it's not possible to convert them into another format

Any ideas?
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Re: Microsoft Image Composer (.mic) images

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Only thumbnail can be extracted from .mic
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Ok, thanks.
Do you know if there's any other freeware or trialware that can access the whole picture?
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Crysler wrote:Do you know if there's any other freeware or trialware that can access the whole picture?
The MIC format is proprietary.
ThumbsPlus v3.0g “loads these files as a single image (all layers are combined)”.
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Worked fine with ThumbsPlus, thank you very much.
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