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Date:	Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:01:37 -0800
From:	sshapiro@ucsd.edu (Sandy Shapiro)
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: JPG open

Thanks Tom -- I got it now.

OK, I click on "open as" and I get two options: PMView and Image Editor.
Click on PMView and the picture opens up properly -- nice picture, colors
and all.

Sandy

In <45CE56FB.60409@san.rr.com>, on 02/10/07
at 03:36 PM, Tom Brown said:

>Sandy Shapiro wrote:
>> In , on 02/10/07
>> at 11:04 AM, "Steven Levine" said:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> In <200702080056.l180uOW9008168@nlpi043.sbcis.sbc.com>, on 02/07/07
>>> at 04:57 PM, sshapiro@ucsd.edu (Sandy Shapiro) said:
>>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>
>>
>>>> I ran makdefv.exe, and it shows that JPG files are associated with PM
>>>> View. I reboot, and when I click on the JPG icon, I get an error message:
>>>> "Unable to open RC=5652."
>>>>
>>
>>
>>> This means
>>>
>>
>>
>>> 5652 - ERROR_FILE_FORMAT_INCORRECT
>>> File format incorrect.
>>>
>>
>>
>>> I have to suspect that makdefv is not really doing what it should.
>>> Pmview would not generate this error message. What happens if you use
>>> RMB->Open and explicitly select PMView from the listed applications?
>>>
>>
>> I may not be understanding your question, but if I RMB click on the JPG
>> icon, I get a popup menu with "open as" as the first choice. I don't see
>> anything that says "open." When I click on "open as" a window opens with
>> the file name and "editor" at the top. The window then sits there with the
>> timer icon on. I finally have to click "control-escape" and "close" to
>> move on.
>>
>> Sandy
>>
>>
>RMB on the .JPG icon, then LMB on the arrow at the right end of the Open
>as line. You should then see entries for all of the programs on your
>system that are associated with the .JPG file type. What you were seeing
>is the System Editor, E.EXE trying to load the .JPG file. Since the file
>is probably quite large, it was taking some time, and you ran out of
>patience and bailed out.

>HTH

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