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Microsoft Image Composer (.mic) images

Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 11:36 am
by Crysler
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?

Re: Microsoft Image Composer (.mic) images

Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 12:22 pm
by xnview
Only thumbnail can be extracted from .mic

Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 8:16 pm
by Crysler
Ok, thanks.
Do you know if there's any other freeware or trialware that can access the whole picture?

Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 8:55 pm
by XnTriq
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)”.

Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 12:36 pm
by Crysler
Worked fine with ThumbsPlus, thank you very much.